- Aurora Commodities Limited is a privately owned trading and firm founded in 2015 that specializing in both private and public sector development. With a network of facilities and International affiliates, Aurora Commodities enables its client’s wide access to a variety of products and solutions that aim to optimize their operations. The firm has a strong and diverse pool of skilled and technical professionals that constantly drive the firm to ensure we achieve our vision.
- One of Zambia’s leading trading firms operating in various sectors that serve a wide range of local, regional and multinational clients. By virtue of our registration with the Zambian Public Procurement Authority as suppliers of goods and services, we are ably qualified to supply the Zambian Defence Services.
- Aurora Commodities’ ability to supply goods and equipment in an efficient and perquisite level with acceptable lead times and at an acceptable cost is unmatched. With a primary focus on commodities, namely grain, mealie meal and cattle, we also provide logistical support to our reputable clients in the region.
- The Group is principally involved in the production, processing, distribution and retailing of beef, chicken, pork, milk, dairy products, eggs, stock feed and flour. The Group also has large row cropping operations (principally maize, soya beans and wheat), with approximately 7,787 hectares of row crops under irrigation which are planted twice a year, and a further 8,694 hectares of rainfed/dryland crops available for planting each year.
- Zambeef runs one of the largest irrigated row cropping operations in Zambia, with approximately 7,787 hectares of irrigated land, and 8,694 hectares of rainfed, arable, developed land available for planting each year. Crop production focuses on maize and soybeans during the summer, and wheat and maize during winter, with the Group having a storage capacity of 125,000 metric tons.
- Cargill has been present in Zambia since 2006 and is based in Lusaka, the capital and largest city of Zambia. The company is active in grain and oilseeds, trading, and providing market access to commercial farmers as well as small-scale farmers for their crops. We are continuously developing products that give consumers just what they’re seeking, advancing nutrition, food safety and sustainability. And we help all of our partners innovate and manage risk, so they can nourish the world again tomorrow.
- We operate on an integrated global basis to source, store, trade, process and distribute grains and oilseeds including wheat, corn, oilseeds, barley and sorghum, as well as vegetable oils and meals. We have a broad global presence in grain origination, shipping and processing and we have developed significant expertise in handling identity preserved and differentiated products.
- In 2015 Cargill acquired an integrated soybean oil crush, refinery and bottling business in Lusaka, further enabling the company to provide both small scale and commercial farmers with market access for their products, as well as providing soybean meal to the animal nutrition industry.
- We source and process our mealie meal products locally and provide a range of other food products such as flour, insembe, sugar, salt and rice to our ever-growing consumer base. We focus on quality and accessibility as we work hard to serve the nation and our consumers within a proudly Zambian ethos.
- We set high quality standards for all our products and by maintaining a stringent in-house quality control check we are able to ensure that all our products meet our quality promises before leaving our plant. We aim to ensure that all our supply chain partners are invested in our company values and quality standards to ensure that from the raw materials to our end users our quality standards far exceed the standards set by the market backed with a customer guarantee.