BROWN SESAME

Brown sesame is what Senegal already grows at scale — and where the most value is lost. Farmers sell at harvest into a seasonal price floor, often below the reference farmgate price, and the crop leaves the country unnamed and undifferentiated.

SavanaNut's warehouse-receipt platform changes that. Producers, cooperatives and traders deliver their crop to our facility, where it is weighed, tested, cleaned and graded. They receive a negotiable warehouse receipt against the certified lot — and they keep ownership of their crop.

With that receipt, they can borrow from partner banks, hold until prices recover, or instruct SavanaNut to sell on their behalf into the oil-extraction and re-export markets of China, India and East Asia — as graded product under a named Senegalese origin.

The result: about 11% more per tonne for the depositor than a harvest-time sale to a visiting trader. For Senegal, a price position for its brown sesame where none exists today.