Fully operational · Tormabum, Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone’s rice future, grown at scale.
Fambul Rice is advancing commercial rice production through mechanisation, precision agriculture and a field-to-market platform designed for national impact.
Built for the real work of food security
A commercial rice platform, built from the field up.
Fambul Rice brings land development, modern machinery, crop science and market ambition into one operating model.
From Tormabum in Bonthe District, the company is creating the foundations for dependable local rice supply: disciplined field operations today, an inclusive outgrower pathway for expansion, and planned processing infrastructure for the next stage of growth.
Meet Fambul Rice↗
Local production.
Commercial discipline.
National purpose.
One connected system
Every critical link,
working together.
Commercial agriculture succeeds when each stage reinforces the next. Fambul Rice is building that continuity across the value chain.
Land & water
Phased land development with irrigation-led expansion.
↗ 02Crop science
Varietal trials, SRI training and disciplined agronomy.
↗ 03Mechanisation
Heavy equipment for preparation, planting and field logistics.
↗ 04Precision operations
Drone spraying and direct-seeding capabilities.
↗ 05Harvest & handling
Combine harvesting supported by field transport and storage assets.
↗ 06Processing roadmap
Planned milling, parboiling, drying, grading and packaging.
↗Recent presidential visit
National ambition, seen first-hand.
H.E. President Dr Julius Maada Bio recently visited Fambul Rice Farm in Tormabum.
The visit offered an opportunity to see the company’s cultivated fields, drone-enabled crop operations and mechanisation assets—and to consider the role of private enterprise in expanding domestic rice production.
Read the visit story↗
Field visitTormabum · Sierra Leone
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Capability in the field
Scale you can see.
Systems built to grow.
An operating base for phased commercial expansion.
The company’s stated ambition for national-scale production.
A future processing platform for value addition and market reach.
Current figures and future targets are presented separately throughout this website.
Technology with purpose
Modern tools.
Better field decisions.
Technology is most valuable when it improves execution.
Fambul Rice combines drone spraying, direct seeding, mechanised field work and 35 varietal trials—including material from ROK, Pakistan and Egypt—to strengthen the evidence behind each production decision.
Explore technology and operations↗Commercial scale with wider value
Growth that reaches beyond the farm gate.
The expansion model is designed to connect smallholder farmers, women and youth to a more organised rice value chain.
The planned outgrower programme combines inputs on credit, agronomic training, access to mechanisation and guaranteed off-take arrangements—with a target of 700 participating farmers and at least 40% women.
See the shared-growth model↗