This article showcases our top picks for the best South Africa based Farming companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Farming industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top South Africa Farming Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Aerobotics
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Aerobotics is a data analytics company, providing tree and fruit insights enabled by drone imagery and artificial intelligence.
KHULA!
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Khula is a Software and mobile marketplace for farmers.
Nile.ag
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Nile.ag is an agritech company that connects farmers with buyers of fresh produce.
Senwes Limited
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Senwes Limited is focused on providing input products required for maize farming such as finance, equipment and materials.
Livestock Wealth
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Livestock Wealth is a crowdfarmingTM company that allows people to invest in livestock and earn from sale of the offspring.
Smartroot
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Smartroots offers a natural fertiliser based on fungi
Bulrush Agritech
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Bulrush Agritech is a digital livestock management platform for more efficient
Meat Naturally
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Meat Naturally provides education, farming resources, grazing expertise, and market opportunities for the restoration of rangelands.
Efekto
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Efekto manufactures and sells garden chemicals in South Africa.
GWK Beperk
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GWK Beperk provides agricultural, farm food financing, trading, logistics, infrastructure, and marketing services to the farmers.
Tessara
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Tessara is a manufacturer of table grape preservation sheets that globally markets its products under Uvasys brand.
Skudu
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Skudu is an agri marketplace that offers farmers access to purchase agricultural inputs and produce online.
The Co-op Die Kooperasie
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The Co-op Die Kooperasie specializes in agri-netting and farming development services as well as retails animal feeds, silos, and fuel.
Pride Milling
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Pride Milling is a manufacturer, marketer and distributor of basic essential staple food products.
HIK
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HIK is an abalone farm and supplier in South Arfica.
Triomf Fertilizer
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Triomf is a company that sources, imports, manufactures, blends, and distributes high-quality fertilizers and agricultural supplies.
MySmartFarm
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MySmartFarm is a radically better way for farmers to work with their high value & live data.
De Villiers Chocolate
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De Villiers Chocolate is a bean-to-bar artisanal chocolate maker that sources its organic cocoa beans local farmers.
Simbra
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Simbra is a society that deals with breeding, performance testing, including the sale of cattle.
Neofresh
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Neofresh that specialize in the production, packing and marketing of papaya.
Ooka
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Ooka.co.za provides local small farmers the ability to make an income selling their fruits, vegetables, and moderate producing crops.
Dew Crisp
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Dew Crisp is a value added salad products supplier in South Africa.
AgriLED
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AgriLED produce high-quality crops with great nutritional value using our led Grow Lamps.
Fruitways
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Fruitways is a specialist producer, packer and marketer of fresh apples and pears.
kelpak
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kelpak is an ag-tech company that offers liquid fertilizer and biostimulant products.
Zuka
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Zuka is a liquid organic product that doubles as a compost and an insect repellent.
Golden Macadamias
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Golden Macadamias is a macadamia nut processing company.
Soill
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Soill manufactures and supplies canola oils and related products to the retail and foodservice industry
Intelichem
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Intelichem is is a provider of crop solutions to the agricultural industry and related peripherals through its five subsidiaries.
Land & Agricultural Development Bank
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and to agri-business and to make available new, appropriately designed financial products that would facilitate access to finance .
Stoneberg Farm Holdings
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Stoneberg Farm Holdings is a agriculture & farming firm that produces livestock, watermelon, vegetables, olive & rooibos.
Hygrotech
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Hygrotech is a vegetable and agriculture company in Africa.
Umgibe Farming Organics
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Umgibe Farming Organics is a carbon-saving, ecological, organic, income generating vegetable-growing system.
Fair Cape Dairies
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Fair Cape Dairies is a food production firm that supplies milk, yogurt, fruit pulp, juice and dessert.
IrriCheck
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IrriCheck offers a wide range of agricultural irrigation scheduling solutions, software, consulting agents, and pulse platform services.
Fruittex
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Fruittex is provides opportunities for investors to invest in Avocado trees.
Agriplas
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Agriplas is a manufacturer and supplier of irrigation equipment for water management solutions.
Farmpin
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Farmpin provides customized technology solutions to build satellite maps and solve issues for agricultural sectors.
MGK Business Investments
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MGK Business Investments provides agribusiness group.
African Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership
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African Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership specializes in African fertilizer and agribusiness partnership services.
Stanler Farms
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Stanler Farms is a supplier of mushroom compost and soils.
CAPE OLIVE HOLDINGS
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Cape Olive is a major provider of table olives in South Africa and primarily serves the retail industry and some foodservice industries.
Abagold
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Abagold is a seafood hatchery specialized in the cultivation of Abalone and provides live, canned, and processed abalones.
ExploGrow
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ExploGrow is a fertilizer manufacturing company that offers bio-fertilizer and biostimulant products that raise crop quality in farming.
