Commodity Aggregation
Most Tanzanian produce is grown in quantities too small to sell internationally on their own. Aggregation turns many small deliveries into a single lot a buyer can contract for.
Overview
A container load or a wholesale contract is rarely satisfied by one farm. Aggregation is the work of collecting many individual deliveries and combining them into a lot that is uniform enough to be sold against a single specification.
The difficulty is consistency. Two deliveries of the same crop from neighbouring farms can differ in moisture, size and cleanliness. Produce is therefore assessed at intake and grouped by characteristic, rather than being tipped together and averaged, so that the finished lot behaves predictably.
Each intake is recorded against its supplier and buying location. That record is what makes traceability possible later, and it is what allows a quality issue found at grading to be traced back to a particular source rather than written off across the whole lot.
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Send the commodity, grade, volume, packaging and destination you need and we will respond with a written quotation and a delivery schedule.
Sales enquiries: info@ibsagro.co.tz
Telephone: +255 772 085 785
What's included
Everything below forms part of the service as standard. Anything outside it is quoted separately and stated in writing before work begins.
- Collection from buying points, farmer groups and cooperatives
- Weighing and intake recording for every delivery
- Assessment of moisture, purity and condition at intake
- Segregation of deliveries by variety, grade and condition
- Bulking into commercial lots against a target specification
- Lot identification and traceability back to the contributing intakes
- Interim storage under managed conditions while a lot is accumulated
- Progress reporting to the buyer as volume builds during the season
Who this service is for
How it works
The sequence below is followed on every consignment, and each step is recorded so the consignment can be reconstructed afterwards.
Plan the lot
The target volume, specification and completion date are set, and the buying areas expected to supply it are identified.
Receive and weigh
Deliveries are received at a collection point, weighed and recorded against the supplier and the buying location.
Assess and segregate
Each intake is checked for moisture, purity and condition, then directed to the lot it matches rather than the nearest heap.
Bulk and identify
Matching intakes are combined into a commercial lot, which is given an identifier carried through cleaning, grading and despatch.
Hand over for preparation
The completed lot moves to cleaning, sorting and grading, with its intake record attached.
Commodities this service applies to
Services often taken alongside this one
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Buying agricultural produce at origin from farmers, farmer groups, cooperatives and licensed traders, against a written specification.
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Removing stones, dust, chaff, foreign matter, immature grain and defective material so that a lot meets the purity its specification promises.
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