Participating farmers
A planned network integrated into the company’s commercial value chain.
Farmers · Communities · National food security
Commercial growth with shared value.
The Fambul Rice growth model is designed to bring farmers, women and youth into a more organised, productive and dependable rice value chain.
0301 / Inclusive expansion
A larger platform should create a wider circle of opportunity.
Fambul Rice’s outgrower model is designed to connect smallholders to inputs, training, mechanisation and a defined route to market.
The planned programme groups farmers into manageable cohorts, supports one-hectare plots and uses clear commercial arrangements to strengthen reliability for both farmers and the company.
Women
A defined inclusion benchmark within the outgrower programme.
Per farmer
A practical production unit supported through the programme model.
02 / How the model works
From access to market
A practical pathway for farmer participation.
The model is designed around the constraints that often limit smallholder productivity and market confidence.
- 01
Organise
Farmers are grouped into cohorts of one to seven for training, support and programme management.
- 02
Equip
Seed, fertiliser and agrochemicals are planned for provision on credit under agreed terms.
- 03
Build capability
SRI training and access to mechanisation support stronger field practices.
- 04
Connect to market
Guaranteed off-take arrangements and a transparent floor-and-ceiling pricing model are designed to reduce uncertainty.
03 / Participation
Space to grow—together.Women and youth
Inclusion designed into the expansion model.
Participation is not treated as a side programme. It is part of how the future supply network is intended to grow.
The company profile sets a target of at least 40% women within the planned outgrower programme and identifies women and youth participation as a core element of inclusive growth.
01Access to productive inputs
02Skills and agronomic support
03Mechanisation access
04Defined market arrangements
04 / Company targets for 2027
The outcomes being pursued
Measure growth by what it makes possible.
The following are forward-looking targets stated in the company profile—not current results.
Expected employment supported by the expansion pathway.
Expected additional annual supply associated with the model.
Targeted reduction through better handling and infrastructure.
05 / National relevance
Local rice is more than a product. It is national capability.
Increasing dependable domestic supply shortens the distance between Sierra Leonean consumers and the food they rely on.
Fambul Rice is positioning commercial agriculture, planned processing and farmer participation as mutually reinforcing parts of that ambition—aligned with Feed Salone and the national rice-development agenda.
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