Follow the seed.
Arziqa  ·  Journey of a Grain
01/08—The Harvest
01The Harvest
02The Crisis
03The Hub
04The Receipt
05The Transformation
06The Voyage
07The Value
08The Beginning
Chapter I  ·  The Harvest

A farmer in Benue
harvests her sesame.

14 mtOctober yield
$1,200Gate price · per mt
72 hrUntil the rain comes
07°43′N · 008°31′ELat. Benue, NGSesame · Sesamum indicumHand-cut · pre-dawn
Chapter II  ·  The Crisis
Post-harvest loss · Sub-Saharan grain
6%
Six in every hundred tonnes never reach a buyer. Spoiled in transit, lost to rain, sold below break-even — because there is no place to hold.
$4.5B
Annual loss · NG alone
Unstored grain & oilseed, 2024 ledger.
42%
Smallholder share
Sell within 14 days of harvest at gate price.
0.6%
Modern storage
Of national grain throughput. Tier-1 lender accepted.
Source · NCMB ledger 202402 / 08
Chapter III  ·  The Hub

Her sesame
arrives at Kano.

Steel-frame warehousing, calibrated to 11.5% moisture. Optical sort, fumigation, bag-level traceability. Twelve hours from intake to negotiable receipt.

Storage
Cleaning
Optical sort
Fumigation
Bagging
Negotiable receipts
Insurance
Capacity80,000 mt
Throughput240 mt/d
Hold18 mo
Moisture11.5%
Kano hub · NW zone · 09°35′N 008°25′E03 / 08
Chapter IV  ·  The Receipt

Now her grain
is a negotiable instrument.

A warehouse receipt — accepted by Tier-1 Nigerian lenders. She walks in with bagged sesame; she walks out with a credit line against it. The harvest stops being a deadline.

Registered
Verified · NCMB
Arziqa NGNegotiable warehouse receipt
No. 0 7 4 2 9 1
MMXXVI · X · 14
Kano hub
HolderA. Iorshe (Benue)
CommoditySesame · grade 1
Tonnage14.00 mt
Moisture11.4%
Bag count280 · jute
Hold period12 mo · auto-renew
Collateral value₦24.8M
0 7 4 2 9 1   ·   A R Z Q · K A N · 2 6
A. IorsheHolder
O. AdebayoHub master · Kano
ArziqaVault  ·  Sealed
Chapter V  ·  The Transformation
Hold · process · time the market

She holds for six months.
The market turns.

$1,200
→
$1,850
54% premium · per tonne
Average uplift across Arziqa-held sesame in the 2025 cycle. The grain didn't change. The patience did.
Sesame · 2025 hold cycle · Lagos FOB index05 / 08
Chapter VI  ·  The Voyage

Loaded FOB Lagos.
Destination: Osaka.

OriginApapa
TransitSuez · 28d
DischargeOsaka
14 OCT · MMXXVI
Loaded FOB
Apapa terminal · container 4 sealed
06 NOV
Suez transit
SCFI lane 7 · clear
28 NOV
Discharged
Osaka south · bonded
04 DEC
Buyer paid
Letter of credit settled
Bill of lading · 14 mt · sealed container06 / 08
Chapter VII  ·  The Value
$1,850per mt

From a single farmer to a global buyer — held, processed, financed, exported. One operating layer.

$12M
Farmer payouts · 2025
Issued at intake against negotiable receipt.
14%
Default rate avoided
Vs. unsecured smallholder credit.
30
Vessels FOB · 2025
EU · GCC · ECOWAS · Asia.
$173.4M
Gross commodity flow
Across the operating layer · 2025.
Audited ledger · KPMG NG · Q4 202507 / 08
Preserving prosperity.
— ar · zi · qa  ·  the harvest, in trust —
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