Our Brand Story
Growing up in the western part of Nigeria, where agriculture is highlighted as more of a hobby than a profession; I developed a colossal interest and love for agriculture.
Little wonder, I always appear dressed like a farmer during the days of my primary education.
As a kid, my love for food was profound. I loved to eat, everyone does and this made me realize the important role food plays in ensuring the running of our day to day activities.
I also realized that one way through which humans connect with one another is through food. The food we cultivate, cook, serve and eat, in addition to giving us life, gives us connections to those around us.
Thus this sparked and birthed the whole idea and inception of TBT- AGRO COMMODITY TRADING COMPANY; as I saw the need to increase agricultural productivity to ensure that not just Nigerians, but families all over the world get food on their table on daily basis.
Founded in 2017, TBT, an initialism coined from Tunji-Bello Tesleem started up as TBT LOGISTICS LIMITED; a logistic company aimed at sourcing agro related raw materials and getting them across from the point of production to the point of consumption but along the line there was a need for change.
Statistics have it that Nigeria relies on $10 billion of imports to meet its food and agricultural production. Nigeria's agricultural sector has been hurt by several shocks: sporadic flooding, insurgencies, inter communal conflicts.
Food production and processing suffer from a lack of financing and infrastructure thus making agricultural commodities scarce and unavailable to the wider population.
This caused us to have a change in directive in 2020. We wanted to focus mainly on reducing the scarcity around agro commodities and helping producers/farmers make money by getting these commodities across to the consumers/marketers while simultaneously causing a flow of agro commodities like Maize, Soybeans, Cashew nuts, Shea butter/Shea nuts, Charcoal and Cassava within the country and across borders.
We became more intentional and switched to TBT- AGRO COMMODITY TRADING COMPANY in 2020. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, TBT had been able to build a relationship of over 1,000 global partners in terms of farmers, sourcing agents and buyers. In TBT, we render the services of sourcing of Agricultural Commodities for companies based locally and internationally. We are also aimed at providing both local and international producers with top quality agro products grown on fertile Nigerian soils.
We efficiently and effectively trade on soft commodities including but not limited to; Maize, Soybeans, Cashew nuts, Ginger, Cocoa, Sesame seeds, shea butter, shea nuts, Plant seedlings, fertilizers.
