Non-GMO Cotton Seed

Our goal is to be one of the big trading companies in Africa, becoming a platform thanks to which local farmers can send their products to the rest of the world. We want to generate long term partnerships with our buyers and become a reference company to help them and provide them with a quality product at a good price. Our target is to expand by buying more land and have more of our own production in order to be able to respond to higher demand in the future.

The company is managed by a partnership, with two associates working in Benin and the United States. This gives us the perfect combination of a local based approach that allows us to keep control of the quality and all the process in Benin while having a foot on the international market.

The company works with several processing factories that have warehouses totaling 40.000 square meters. These warehouses have high ceilings with between 10-12 meters, following all standards to avoid humidity and any potential presence of insects and animals. All the product is stocked inside of 50kg bags on pallets so they are not in contact with walls and floors.

After an order is made, the product takes one week to be ready for delivery. Products are shipped from the port of Cotonou, located at a 200km distance from our facilities.

The quality control for the product are conducted first internally, with strict implementation of best practices for hygiene, following AFI Standards, and later are conducted by independent surveyors from companies such as SGS. Quality and hygiene control are a top priority for the company, which not only is extremely careful with all the processes and standards but also has a local representative very experimented in all these best practices.

All the factories we work with for processing, both in Benin and abroad, have all the required certifications.

Odalex AfriCommodity produces an average of 30.000 MT per year, purchasing from associations and small farmers from the north of Benin. The harvesting season goes from January to July. The cotton is planted every year, and collected every year by the local farmers, using no chemical products and manually picking and harvesting the products. The production of cotton seeds in Benin benefits ideal equatorial weather conditions, combining sunny dry seasons with rainy wet seasons.

Odalex AfriCommodity offers non-GMO cotton seeds that can be consumed up to 12 months after being yielded. Directly procured from small farmers from the north of Benin, in West Africa, these cotton seeds have characteristics that make it perfect to be used for processed foods and cotton oil, with great quality at a very competitive price. Samples can be arranged upon request.