Nkwele Agribusiness Planning and Investments (Pty) Ltd is a 100% black-owned agribusiness and economic development consultancy and investment facilitation company. We specialize in agribusiness development, economic advisory, feasibility studies, and business plans, business modeling, facilitation of investment opportunities, enterprise development, project management services, business mentorship, and human capital capacity building.
We are equipped with complementary expertise to ensure the sustainability of the enterprises and projects for clients. Our interventions promote partnerships in order to ensure social, economic, and environmental sustainability, as well as participation and inclusion of the historically disadvantaged individuals and enterprises in the value chains.
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Our mission is to present practical solutions that ensures
equitable participation of historically disadvantaged farmers
and agribusiness enterprises in the agribusiness value chains.
We strive to identify opportunities for agribusiness enterprises
to participate fully in the main agribusiness industry in order
to contribute to the economic growth of the country and the
Southern African region. This will be achieved through packaging,
development and facilitation of realistic and practical social,
economic and environmentally sustainable agribusiness solutions
that addresses challenges of the 21st century and which enable
our clients to optimize their economic and human resource
potential
Providing professional growth and development of employees and
our clients by advocating continuous improvement and learning culture.
Providing practical and relevant agribusiness solutions to the needs of our clients by drawing from an in-depth insight and understanding of economic, social, environmental and political landscape.
Setting up quality assurance mechanisms in delivery and interactions
with our clients and stakeholders.
Ensuring that our services and interventions provide realistic returns on investment and tangible benefits to our clients and stakeholders
For people and the environment
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We draw our strength from a wide network of a well experienced team of experts some with over 20 years field experience. Our multidisciplinary team of experts include Agricultural Economists; Crop Scientists, Livestock Scientists, Financial Management Experts, and Agricultural Extension Specialists, Project Managers and Social Facilitations Experts. Our multidisciplinary team of experts enables us to respond to the needs, tastes and preference of our clients. Our project team are readily available and their involvement depends on the nature of the assignment and services to be rendered to our clients.
Thati is an agribusiness development specialist with over 20 years’ experience in agribusiness research, development and project management consultancy spread across the public sector (14 years) and the private sector (7 years).
Academically, Thati is an Agricultural Economist with a degree in Agricultural Management and honours in Agricultural Economics from University of Limpopo. He also possesses an MBA from Management College of Southern Africa (MANCOSA). Thati spent his 14 years of work experience
as an Agricultural Economist within Business and Institutional Development and International Trades Directorates at National Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (4 years), Principal Agricultural Economist – Marketing and Economics Division (18 months) at KwaZulu Natal Department of Agriculture and Deputy Director/ Project Manager – Agribusiness (9 years) at KwaZulu Natal Department of Economic Development.
Thati played pivotal roles in various agricultural value chains and projects ranging from food security to high impact agribusiness and agro-processing development and investment projects, including international trade. Thati brings into the team strategic leadership and project management expertise and competencies necessary to steer the project implementation to success.
Thati also serves as an agri-business linkages expert for the Agribusiness Component of the Ecosystem Development for Small Enterprise (EDSE) Programme funded by the European Union.
We draw our strength from a pool and network of a well experienced sector specialists some with over 20 years’ experience. Our multidisciplinary team of experts include Agricultural Economists; Crop Scientists, Livestock Scientists, Financial Management Experts, Project Managers and Social Facilitation Experts, etc. Our multidisciplinary team of experts enables us to respond to the needs, tastes and preference of our clients. Our project team are readily available and their involvement depends on the nature of the assignment and services to be rendered to our clients as and when required.