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How the group works

Capital. Capability. Market access.

The Original Grain brings together three specialist entities spanning commercial agriculture, agricultural investment and non-profit community development. One connected model, three separate legal entities.

CapitalThe Original Grain Fund
CapabilityThe Original Grain NPC
Market accessThe Original Grain Company

CapitalThe Grain Fund

Market accessThe Company

CapabilityThe NPC

The problem we solve

Productive land sits idle, and capable farms stay unfinanced, because of one constraint with three symptoms.

Funding arrives too late, or not at allHigh production costs, volatile weather and limited security make seasonal lending difficult, and falling prices tighten cash flow even when fields perform.

Expertise is episodic, not embeddedSoil health, input timing, mechanisation and grading decisions set yield and quality, but support is often disconnected from the finance.

A buyer is sought after the crop is grownWithout demand agreed before planting, the grower carries price, grade and payment risk alone.

Treating the gaps separately preserves the risk. Connecting them, with one shared record of readiness, inputs, field work, crop progress, contracted demand, delivery and payment, creates a financeable production system.

Six steps from capital to progression

Money goes into hectares, hectares become a crop, the crop has a buyer before it is planted, and the evidence from one season funds the next.

1CapitalInvestor capital via the Fund, or CSI and grant funding via the NPC, committed for a season.Fund / NPC

2ExpertiseAgronomy, procurement, contracting, insurance and community governance.Company / NPC

3ProductionLand prepared, inputs applied, crop managed through the season on partner or communal land.Company

4OfftakeThe Original Grain Company buys the crop at a SAFEX-related price under an agreement signed before planting.Company

5EvidenceHectares, yield, tonnes delivered, income paid, jobs and repayment, reported each season.All three

6ProgressionInvestors distribute or roll forward; communities move from grant support toward their own commercial finance.Fund / NPC

Who does what

Each arm is a separate legal entity with its own role, contracts and funding. Nothing is pooled.

Entity	Does	For	Contracts with you for	Receives
The Original Grain Company (Pty) Ltd	Sources, grows, mills and moves maize and soybeans; buys the crop from every programme	Buyers, farmers, suppliers	Grain sales, offtake, AAPP land agreements	Trading revenue
The Original Grain Fund	Channels long-term investor capital into AAPP production through a ring-fenced vehicle	Qualifying investors and finance partners	Preference-share subscription under formal documents	Investment capital, not donations
The Original Grain NPC	Applies CSI, grant and catalytic funding in poor and needy communities: readiness, skills and a route to market for people building their own livelihoods	CSI teams, foundations, donors, communities	Partnership and funding agreements	Grants and CSI funding, never invested in the Fund

The NPC does not guarantee commercial or investment performance. No entity carries the liabilities of another. Projections on this site are marked as such; results are published only once confirmed.

Find your pathway

Buyers, farmers, suppliers

The Original Grain Company

Commercial agriculture and market access: sourcing, production support, logistics and offtake.

Trade with us

Qualifying investors

The Original Grain Fund

Capital for productive agriculture, structured through a ring-fenced vehicle with priority economics.

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CSI and institutional partners

The Original Grain NPC

Community livelihood projects and measurable impact, with market access planned from the outset.

Partner for impact

Common questions

Is The Original Grain one company?

It is a group of three separate legal entities under one brand: The Original Grain Company (Pty) Ltd, The Original Grain Fund and The Original Grain NPC. Each contracts, funds and reports on its own.

Do donations to the NPC go into the Fund?

No. CSI and grant funding received by the NPC is applied to community livelihood projects. Investor capital in the Fund is a separate subscription under formal documents.

Who buys the crop?

The Original Grain Company, under an offtake agreement signed before planting, at a SAFEX-related price.

Which figures are results and which are projections?

Confirmed results carry a source and a season. Forward figures such as planned hectares or expected tonnes are labelled Projected.

Which entity answers my enquiry?

Each form on this site states which entity receives it: buyer and farmer enquiries go to the Company, investor enquiries to the Fund, CSI enquiries to the NPC.

Find the right pathway

Tell us who you are and we route you to the Company, the Fund or the NPC.

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