At Daily Kenya we track over 200,000 Kenyan startups and over 1,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 83 Agriculture companies in Central. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Agriculture Companies & Startups (Central)
Nutrition Technologies
Nutrition Technologies manufactures protein, oil and organic fertilizer from Black Soldier Fly larvae for a greener and healthier future.
Founder(s): Nick Piggott, Richard Hayler, Thomas Berry
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Animal Feed, Biotechnology, Farming, Sustainability, Waste Management
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Hemptown Organics
Hemptown Organics is a producer of the finest full-spectrum hemp-derived CBD and CBG products in the world.
Founder(s): Michael Townsend, Rod Wolterman
Location: Central Point, Oregon, United States
Industries: Agriculture, Cannabis, Farming
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Yoma Strategic Holdings
Readying itself for a very exciting future.
Founder(s): Melvyn Pun
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Automotive, Consumer, Real Estate, Tourism
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Vertical Oceans
Vertical Oceans produces the worlds best tasting, most sustainable shrimp in advanced technology aqua towers.
Founder(s): Enzo Acerbi, John F. Diener
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Aquaculture, Farming, Food and Beverage
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SEPPURE
SEPPURE creates sustainable nanofiltration solutions to separate chemical mixtures at a molecular level with minimal energy use.
Founder(s): Mohammad Hossein Davood Abadi Farahani, NA NA
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Energy, Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Nanotechnology
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Fefifo
Fefifo is a technology-first Co-farming company that focuses on empowering the new generation of progressive farmers in ASEAN.
Founder(s): Chris Fong, kelveen soh
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Farming, IaaS, PaaS
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INSEACT
Biotech company producing protein from black soldier fly insects
Founder(s): Michael Badeski, Tim van Vliet
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Animal Feed, Biotechnology
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Hyflux
Hyflux Ltd is a fully-integrated water solutions company and among the top global desalination plant providers.
Founder(s): Olivia Lum
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Information Technology
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Entobel
Entobel is a Biotech company supplying insect based products to the feed industry.
Founder(s): Alexandre de Caters, Gaetan Crielaard
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Animal Feed, Biotechnology, Farming
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SteerPlatform
SteerPlatform, a No-Code Order Processing and Fulfilment Platform. Go Paperless, Get Automated & Provide Self-service fast & easy
Founder(s): Arup Maity, Benjamin Puzon, Siddharth Wadehra
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Customer Service, Facility Management, Field Support, SaaS, Software, Supply Chain Management
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Rice Exchange
Rice Exchange is a digital blockchain-enabled rice trading platform
Founder(s): Frank Gouverne, Stephen Edkins
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Blockchain, Food and Beverage, Internet, Trading Platform
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SinGrow
SinGrow is a biotechnology company.
Founder(s): Dr Bao Shengjie, Mr Xu Tao
Location: Bukit Merah, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Biotechnology
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Protenga
Protenga is an agricultural technology company for producing insect-based nutrition of aquaculture, farmed animals, pets, plants and humans.
Founder(s): Leo Wein
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Aquaculture, Industrial Engineering, Nutrition
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Lentera Africa
Lentera is an AgriTech company enabling farmers increase yield and get access to high value markets for their produce
Founder(s): Darshana Joshi, Moses Kimani
Location: Kiambu, Central, Kenya
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Computer Vision, Farming, Mobile Apps
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Packet Greens
Packet Greens, a Singapore-based startup which couples hydroponics technology
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Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Farming, Hydroponics
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Kinnva
Kinnva is a synthetic biology startup with domain-focus across biotech, feedtech, foodtech, agritech and cleantech.
Founder(s): Brian Reddy, Mounika Reddy
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Animal Feed, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Industrial Manufacturing
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MooMa
AgTech, Dairy milk startup focussing on IoT, Big Data, ML, AI to improve yield, efficency and productivity
Founder(s): Brian Reddy
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Farming, Information Technology, Internet of Things, Machine Learning
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Chloropy
Chloropy is a trustable tech-enabled platform connecting producers and consumers of organic and healthy food.
Founder(s): Apoorv Vaish, Gajendra Babu
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Computer Vision, Farming, SaaS
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HempNova Lifetech
HempNova Lifetech offers integrated services to hemp farms seeking to maximize yield and productivity.
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Location: Central Point, Oregon, United States
Industries: Agriculture, Farming
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Farmshine
Farmshine is a global agriculture platform which allows farmers, buyers and service providers to carry out trade on mutually beneficial.
Founder(s): Luca Alinovi
Location: Thika, Central, Kenya
Industries: Agriculture
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BioMax
Rapid Thermophilic Digestion Technology
Founder(s): Fion Chua, Puah Mok, Sim Tong
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, GreenTech, Organic
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Agribuddy
Management of agricultural support application “AGRIBUDDY”.
Founder(s): Kengo Kitaura
Location: Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Industries: Agriculture
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45RICE
Food Technology and Nutrition Social Enterprise
Founder(s): Jack Sim, Kevin Moon
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Food and Beverage, Information Technology
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Agrivo International Limited
Agriculture Portfolio, Investment, Incubation, Acceleration, Merger & Acquisition
Founder(s): Dato’ Dr Nicholas Ho, Dato’ Joel Low
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Food Processing
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Sky Greens
Sky Greens is an innovator and builder of the low carbon hydraulic water-driven vertical farming system.
Founder(s): Ho Che Fei, Jack Ng
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Farming
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BuzzCloudGlobal
We work with urban farmers in order to provide “Pollination as a Service” as soon as they move to growing crops that need pollination
Founder(s): Roger Lewis
Location: Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech
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Sustenir Agriculture
Sustenir Agriculture uses modern science to grow great, high-nutrition, specialty leafy greens through sustainable CEA.
Founder(s): Benjamin Swan, Martin Lavoo
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Farming, Food and Beverage
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Wilmar International
Wilmar International Limited is today Asia’s leading agribusiness group.
Founder(s): Robert Kuok
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Business Development, Food and Beverage
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Plantations International
Plantations International is an Asia based sustainable plantation asset management company.
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Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Asset Management, Farming
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Crop Nutrition Laboratory Services (Cropnuts)
Crop Nutrition Laboratory Services (Cropnuts) is a private agricultural services company.
Founder(s): Jeremy Cordingley
Location: Limuru, Central, Kenya
Industries: Agriculture, Farming
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Neo Group Ltd
Neo Group Ltd is a food catering group in Singapore.
Founder(s): Neo Kah Kiat
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Catering, Delivery, Food and Beverage, Retail
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Avirtech
Avirtech provides drones and other smart technologies for the agriculture inspection, survey, mapping, and asset management.
Founder(s): Rendy Ferixsen
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Drone Management, Industrial Automation
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CreditAI
CreditAI uses artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to generate a dynamic credit score for farmers.
Founder(s): Sangram Nayaka
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
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EATBOOK PTE. LTD.
Eatbook is a new Singaporean food site that is changing the way Singaporeans discover food.
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Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Hospitality, Internet, Internet of Things, Media and Entertainment
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UMAMI UNITED
Plant-based food
Founder(s): Hiroto Yamazaki
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Food and Beverage, Food Processing
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Agros
Agros is an agtech company offering an end-to-end solution to farmers that doubles their income and reduces carbon emissions.
Founder(s): Max Nelen
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Renewable Energy
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Oceanus Group
Oceanus Group is committed to excellence and enhancing shareholder value through astute management.
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Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Farming, Manufacturing
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KEF
KEF Holdings Limited operates in infrastructure, healthcare, agriculture, education, investment, and metal businesses
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Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Education, Health Care
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Plento
From AIFS and Bugsolutely, the new company that mixes plant and insect ingredients into delicious snacks.
Founder(s): Massimo Reverberi, Raavee Shanker, Yuvanesh Tamil Selvan
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Health Care
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Pacific GeneTech
Pacific GeneTech focuses on developing and commercializing vaccines for the livestock industry through their proprietary Aegis platform.
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Location: Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Industries: Agriculture, Biotechnology, Medical
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Asia Insect Farm Solutions
We are an insect-based solutions company specialising in the production of value-added ingredients for the food, feed and petfood markets.
Founder(s): Raavee Shanker, Yuvanesh Tamil Selvan
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Animal Feed, Farming, Food and Beverage, Nutrition
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Farmcity
Marketplace for urban gardening
Founder(s): Kelly Ann Yeo, Wesley Oxenham
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Education, Farming, Marketplace
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Smartgrow
Smartgrow is a Singapore-based company that creates turnkey aquaponics allowing communities to grow their own clean food.
Founder(s): Andras Kristof, Phil Tinn
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture
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Jiva
Jiva digital solutions help farmers access low-cost finance, quality farming supplies, digital supply, and personalized services.
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Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Farming, Internet
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Adroit Overseas
Adroit Overseas is an agricultural produce exporting company that markets and delivers agricultural goods at a large scale.
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Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Consumer Goods, Food Processing
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Remote Grid
They are a team of experienced technopreneurs inspired by the limitless possibilities of a wireless sensor based interconnected world.
Founder(s): Avish Joseph
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Big Data, Computer, Wireless
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Hyde Ventures
Venture Capital and Investment Management
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Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Aquaculture, Financial Services, Information Technology
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Real IPM
Real IPM provides Integrated Pest Management (IPM) products and advice to the horticulture sector throughout the region.
Founder(s):
Location: Thika, Central, Kenya
Industries: Agriculture
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Bumitama Agri
Bumitama Agri is a producer of palm oil and palm kernel.
Founder(s):
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Energy, Farming
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WhiteHill
Financial Advisory, Restructuring, Capital Raising
Founder(s): Nurbek Rayev
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Information Technology, Infrastructure, Media and Entertainment
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Eversphere
Biotech, Agritech
Founder(s): Ian Daniel Santoso
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Biotechnology
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Changshouhua Food Company
Changshouhua Food manufactures edible corn oil products.
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Location: Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Industries: Agriculture, Consumer Goods, Manufacturing
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Kencana Agri
Kencana Agri is a plantation company engaged in the cultivation of oil palms in Singapore.
Founder(s):
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Cooking, Farming
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Nutryfarm International
Nutryfarm International is engaged in the production and distribution of healthy and nutrition rich food products.
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Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Farming, Manufacturing
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Eggriculture Foods
Eggriculture Foods produces egg products and offers chicken and processed egg products.
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Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Consumer Goods, Manufacturing
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Enerfo
Enerfo is a trusted global partner in agribusiness industry
Founder(s):
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Information Technology
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Bloom Agro
Agritech company specialising in water-based solutions
Founder(s):
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Farming
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China Haisheng Juice Holdings
China Haisheng Juice Holdings manufactures fruit juice and also agricultural business.
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Location: Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Industries: Agriculture, Food and Beverage, Manufacturing
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First Res
First Resources is one of the leading palm oil producers in the region, managing over 200,000 hectares of oil palm plantations .
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Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Energy, Environmental Engineering
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Lemarc Agromond
Lemarc Agromond is a food and agriculture firm that focuses on farming development, food processing, and supply chain management.
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Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Farming, Food Processing, Supply Chain Management
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Indofood Agri
Indofood Agri is an agricultural research and seed breeding companies offering low-cost, high yields and cost-effective products.
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Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture
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Global Active
Global Active is the Portuguese holding of a group of companies specialized in projects for agriculture, cattle breading and forest
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Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Forestry, Livestock
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Asia Risk Centre
Asia Risk Centre is the thought leader in risk quantification and risk management in agriculture.
Founder(s):
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture
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Agricore
Agricore is a distributor of agricultural commodities and fertilizer products.
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Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Service Industry, Small and Medium Businesses
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Cluster Farming
Cluster Farming is an NGO that focuses on a socio economic apporoch to improve agriculture.
Founder(s): Gerrit Valkenburg
Location: Mumford, Central, Ghana
Industries: Agriculture, Farming, Social Entrepreneurship
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Nutrisource
NutriSource is expertise in providing farm inputs such as fertilizer, agro-chemicals, and specialty fertilizers.
Founder(s):
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Farmers Market, Farming
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Goodhope
Goodhope is a food production firm that specializes in oil palm plantations, edible oils and fats refining businesses.
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Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Food and Beverage, Food Processing
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Scimed Life Sciences
SciMed Life Sciences is a distributor of laboratory equipment for the agriculture and medical fields among others.
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Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Biotechnology, Health Care
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Crispcontrasts Studios
We are Highly Skilled Professional Portrait, Food & Product Photographers in Singapore.
Founder(s):
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
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Succulent Succulents
Succulent Succulents is a agriculture company.
Founder(s): Christina marita, Samuel jhonson, Thomas hobbs
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Farmers Market, Farming, Health Care
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Ulpotha
Ulpotha is a traditional agricultural community.
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Location: Dambulla, Central, Sri Lanka
Industries: Agriculture, Hotel, Resorts
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AKRS Equipment
AKRS Equipment is a John Deere dealer for new or used, residential, commercial, and agriculture equipment.
Founder(s):
Location: Central City, Nebraska, United States
Industries: Agriculture, Construction, Farming, Retail
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Empag
Empag develops agri and food related business.
Founder(s): Ishizaki Yu, Yusuke Saito
Location: Bukit Merah, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Food and Beverage
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KHG Holding
KHG Holding focuses on manufacturing, agriculture, IT, trading, distribution, and real estate services.
Founder(s):
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Information Technology, Manufacturing
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Providore Global
Providore Global is a producer of farm-to-table Australian Beef.
Founder(s):
Location: Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Industries: Agriculture, Farming, Food and Beverage, Food Processing
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J Lee Investment
J Lee Investment is a business that invests in shipping containers and trades seafood and agricultural products.
Founder(s):
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Seafood, Shipping
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Global Palm Resources Holdings
Global Palm Resources Holdings is oil palm producer.
Founder(s):
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech
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China Putian Food Holding
China Putian Food Holdings is a vertically integrated pork supplier.
Founder(s):
Location: Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Industries: Agriculture, Food and Beverage, Food Processing
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Kakuzi
Kakuzi operates in agriculture and cultivation business and processes avocados, blueberries, macadamia, tea and other forestry products.
Founder(s):
Location: Thika, Central, Kenya
Industries: Agriculture, Commercial, Farming, Fruit
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Xangbo
Xangbo trades a range of agricultural and natural resource commodities on its global platform.
Founder(s):
Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Sales, Trading Platform
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China Demeter Financial Investments
China Demeter Financial Investments engaged in the agriculture products related businesses.
Founder(s):
Location: Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Industries: Agriculture, Animal Feed, Financial Services
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China Green (Holdings) Limited
China Green (Holdings) Ltd is a food company that supply a wide range of agricultural products including fresh produce and processed food.
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Location: Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Industries: Agriculture, Food and Beverage
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VSCOM
VSCOM provides exporting and trading services of agriculture-based commodities such as coffee, rice, pepper, and cashew nuts.
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Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Agriculture, Consumer Goods, Trading Platform
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