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Feasibility studies & investment plans
Agronomy, engineering and financial modelling in one bankable document.
Advisory
Advisory, from a team that operates its own farms.
We design, build and run high-tech greenhouse farms in African conditions — and we offer those same capabilities to governments and investors building climate-smart agriculture of their own. Not consultants with a slide deck: operators with a working farm.
What we do
End-to-end advisory, from bankable feasibility to operational support.
Our growers, engineers and business strategists cover the full arc of a high-tech agriculture venture — reducing risk, improving efficiency and accelerating time-to-production at every step.
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Technical greenhouse farm design
High-performance designs engineered for your climate, water and market.
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Project development
Permitting, procurement, contracting and financing support through to build.
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Hands-on operational support
Commissioning, training and precision growing operations — or full operation under mandate.
Who we work with
From national strategy to farms in the ground.
For ministries, development agencies and regional governments confronting food security, import dependence and rural employment — a partner that can carry a programme from crop-and-technology strategy through a working proof of concept to commercial roll-out.
- Country & regional climate-smart agriculture strategy
- Proof-of-concept implementation with training & capacity building
- Commercial roll-out with Drylands as anchor developer & operator
From bankable feasibility to an operating asset.
For institutional investors, family offices and agri-corporates who want exposure to high-tech agriculture without building an operating company — we take projects from first study to steady-state operation, and can put our own capital at risk alongside yours.
- Feasibility studies & bankable business cases
- Project development — including at-risk, for an equity stake
- Implementation and operation on your behalf
Proof, not promises
Every recommendation is tested on our own P&L.
Our advisory work draws on the same systems, growing protocols and teams that run our Grootvlei facility in South Africa — operational since January 2026 and supplying the country's leading retailers. When we advise on a design decision, it's usually one we've already paid for ourselves.
What sits underneath both tracks
One operating platform, three capabilities.
FIG. 01 — THE DRYLANDS STACK
Technology
Dutch glasshouse design, water recirculation, solar power, and proprietary Farm Manager & Order Desk software — row-to-punnet traceability that exceeds GlobalG.A.P. requirements.
Training
Structured programmes that take workers with no prior experience to skilled agritechs — the model running with our first trainee cohort at Grootvlei today.
Operations
Precision growing protocols delivering 20–30× open-field yields, run by teams we build and retain in-country. We operate what we design.
Selected advisory clients
Trusted by operators who want the best.
Our team has been engaged by Anglo American and Futureworld to assess and develop controlled-environment agriculture ventures — alongside the farms we design, finance and run ourselves.
