White sesame

White sesame is the grade the world's food manufacturers want — for bakery, confectionery, tahini and helva. It reaches the widest set of buyers and carries the premium food-grade price.  No West African origin supplies it at scale. SavanaNut is changing that.

We are introducing white sesame to Senegal through contract farming. Before planting, producers sign through their cooperatives and receive certified seed, agronomic support, shared mechanization and post-harvest training — with a fixed reference price, a published grade schedule and a performance bonus, all known before the season starts. The result for farmers: about 26% more income per hectare than traditional production.

Every plot is registered to its producer. At our Kaolack facility, each delivery is weighed, tested and graded, then cleaned and optically sorted, stored by lot and released only against export specification — with full traceability from plot to container.

Our first markets are Turkey, the Levant and the Gulf, where natural white sesame feeds bakery, confectionery and tahini production. Two offtake agreements are already signed, and a third is in negotiation.

The first contracted crop is planted in June 2027, with our first export season running from November 2027 to May 2028.