Cooperative profile · Ghana
Tamale Moringa Growers Association
Eight farmer groups across the Northern Region of Ghana, around Tamale and Savelugu. Roughly 180 grower-members, shade-dried moringa leaf.
Members
~180 growers
Groups
8 villages
Product
Shade-dried moringa
Partner since
2022
Premium paid
+18% above gate
The association
The Tamale Moringa Growers Association federates eight farmer groups across the Northern Region of Ghana, Tamale, Savelugu, Tolon, and the surrounding villages. Around 180 members run small plots, often slipped between staple crops. Moringa fits well: drought-tolerant, perennial, harvestable five to six times a year, and a cash crop that does not compete with the millet or sorghum cycle.
Their process
Young leaves are stripped from branches by hand at sunrise, sorted to remove yellowed leaves, washed in well water, and laid out on raised mesh screens inside a covered drying hall. Drying takes 48 to 72 hours below 40 °C, the spec that retains chlorophyll and roughly 85 percent of the fresh-leaf vitamin C. Dried leaf is then milled to 80 mesh and sieved.
What our partnership looks like
- 18 percent above the regional gate price.
- 30 percent of each season pre-financed at first cutting.
- Drying hall built in 2022 with our pre-finance, the single piece of infrastructure that makes the shade-dry spec possible at this scale.
- Mill maintenance contract co-funded annually.
- Direct shipping from Tema to Albuquerque, no broker chain.
How we audit
Each season’s first lot is third-party tested by an Accra lab (heavy metals, microbial, pesticide panel). Each subsequent lot ships with the cooperative’s own moisture and microbial result; we re-test in Albuquerque on every shipment.