Expected impact

Our role

In 2022, AgDevCo provided a €5.5 million mezzanine debt investment to Afrique Phyto Plus (A2P), an agro-input trading and manufacturing company operating in Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and wider West Africa. In 2025, AgDevCo followed up with an additional €2.0 million debt investment. These investments will support A2P’s continued growth and impact, including the construction of a new warehouse, expansion into new countries, and increased working capital requirements.

AgDevCo has supported A2P with TA to establish an extension programme for 5,000 smallholder farmers focused on food crops in Côte d’Ivoire and to improve A2P’s ESG/HR management systems/processes, labelling of its products, and to increase its offering of biological/organic inputs.

Afrique Phyto Plus was founded in 2013 in Côte d'Ivoire by Mohamed Hamza, Romarick Olomon and Stephane Apoque, three local entrepreneurs. The group specialises in the import, distribution and mixing of crop protection products, both conventional and organic, and the distribution of seeds. It is also promoting precision farming through its subsidiary Investiv’, including the use of drones. The group supplies smallholder farmers through wholesalers, commercial plantations and public organisations. The group also provides logistics services through its subsidiaries Connect Global Forwarding

By providing long term capital, AgDevCo’s investments will support the expansion of A2P’s distribution capacity in Côte d'Ivoire and across West Africa and its entry into new markets in the Sahel and Central Africa regions. This investment is poised to increase the volume and availability of safe and cost-effective inputs for commercial and small-scale farmers in Côte d'Ivoire and the subregion, helping to facilitate yield growth and promoting food security.

Our investments in Côte d'Ivoire