company background:
In 2018, seven individual professionals, founder members of Greenpro Africa joined forces as to bring together their diverse experiences and skills, spanning from agriculture, engineering, off-grid energy generation, manufacturing, finance, management to information technology and more, to share a common passion: to develop commercial and sustainable agriculture ventures in rural Africa.
The Partners previous business/professional experiences vary rom small to medium business ownership, corporative management, project management, agriculture research and development, manufacturing of large-scale military technologies, design and installation of alternative energy solutions, academic research and lecturing, corporative governance, horticulture, and holistic farming.
These skills and expertise were integrated into an existing South African registered company, called Greenpro Consulting (Pty) Ltd. The RSA consulting structure expanded to the revelation to create the Greenpro Africa headquarters in Botswana to operate on a cross-border scale on the Africa continent. Botswana offers stimulating incentives for Agri- and manufacturing-businesses and provides as international trading platform and a stability that are most acceptable and attractive.
Greenpro Africa was created in first Q of 2022, in Botswana, as its Headquarters and research facilities.
greenpro Africa supports the united nations sustainable development goals:
Greenpro Africa supports the UN's sustainable development goals with each of its commercial farming venture designs. Not only is it the right thing to do but also the responsible thing towards the environment and rural people.
In 2015 the United Nations implemented, sustainable development goals that are aimed to improve the world we live in by 2030 in seventeen (17) different ways - ending poverty, acting on climate change, reaching gender equality, ensuring clean water and sanitation for all, and more.
Project developers in rural Africa need to be aware that the people living in rural areas must be viewed as the most important project asset and their needs must be identified, prioritised, and addressed with dignity. Greenpro Africa's Large-scale farming ventures adheres to that motto.
greenpro skills access & community investment
Most of the Greenpro Africa ventures are project orientated and requires various skills from highly qualified engineers to unskilled on-site workers in rural Africa, supported by experienced management capabilities to maintain and operate the designed agriculture ventures.
Greenpro Africa has access to multiple highly qualified engineering skills from agriculture, chemical, civil, electric, electronic, mechanical and process engineering. Most of these individual skills are available in South Africa, with professionals that have previously work with the Greenpro Africa core team in various corporations or projects. Greenpro Africa, over many years, developed such a network of professional skills referred to as associates and consultants, and that proof of skills is accessed on several aspects of projects as required, on an permanent or add-hoc basis.
Similar experienced and qualified South African commercial farmers are available in the Greenpro Africa network. These skills vary from cattle, sheep, goat, fish, wildlife, crop, vegetable, fruit, and wine farming. An African farming knowledge base is an internal project to Greenpro Africa to promote knowledge and experience sharing across Agri-engineering activists and platforms in the continent.
The community social uplifting is at the root of the sustainable commercial farm venture of Greenpro Africa. The company's social development experts consul with staff and community leaders to identify the right workers required for each phase of the project within the nearby communities. The youth and women within the community are targeted to perform specific jobs and be trained to become long term workers for the designed farming project. Agriculture training programs are implemented to improve skills and overcome poverty and hunger in those communities. Additionally, to skills upliftment, Greenpro Africa business model normally creates small business structures to grow the community wealth.
Greenpro Africa value goodwill, empathy, honesty, and the constant skills development of the community members as most important principles to allow the rural communities to accept and adhere to the venture/project as their own.
All Greenpro Africa rural ventures have continuous training programs for each key activity on the farm to allow for job satisfaction, worker growth, worker self-development, better interaction with one another, and to enhance leadership at all levels.
Greenpro Africa believes that happy workers with a skilled on-site management force will allow for a successful and sustainable business anywhere in rural Africa. Greenpro Africa values their people, workers and nearby community members as their most prized asset and partners.