Land & planting material
Start with a verified production base and the right planting pathway.
SIERRA LEONE · AGRIBUSINESS · CASSAVA FIRST
Sierra Leonean cassava.
Grown to a requirement, not a guess.
Vitel Farms is rebuilding a commercially disciplined cassava system rooted in earlier agricultural work in Kambia—and designed to grow into a broader Sierra Leonean agribusiness platform.
Cassava first. Markets before scale.
2024 CASSAVA BASELINEFAOSTAT
≈#21
Sierra Leone≈2.86M tonnes
Long-horizon national ambition→ #1
Source: FAOSTAT 2024 production series. See methodology.
FROM LAND TO MARKET
Build value across the physical chain.
Vitel is designed to connect production to the commercial system that makes production useful.
Field production
Build reliable agronomy, timing, yield measurement and cost control.
Harvest
Coordinate maturity, labor, weighing, handling and movement.
Aggregation
Combine supply where it improves reliability and logistics.
Processing
Process only where demand, quality and economics support it.
Buyer & market
Match product, volume, quality, timing and delivery to real demand.
MARKET-LED AGRICULTURE
Grow to a requirement, not to a guess.
Buyer requirements travel back into the field before production expands.
Buyer requirement
Product, quality, volume, timing, pricing basis and payment terms.
Production plan
Translate demand into planting, harvest, aggregation and cost decisions.
Quality & supply
Measure whether the crop and product meet the requirement.
Delivery & feedback
Use market results to improve the next production cycle.
FOUNDER & ROOTS
Built from work that started in Kambia.
Vitel Farms is led by founder Trevor Young, who began Tseai Energy Unlimited (TEU) around 2009 as a Sierra Leone-focused agriculture and renewable-energy venture. Earlier work in Kambia explored farming, processing, farmer markets and ways to create more value from agricultural production. Vitel is the next chapter: cassava first, commercially disciplined, and clear about what is historical, current or still being verified. Read the Vitel story →
WHAT EXISTS TODAY
Build from what is real.
Founder & archive
Trevor Young leads Vitel. Historical TEU records document the Kambia lineage.
Operating method
The market-led model, evidence standard and farmer-verification protocol are published.
Current work
Historical records, farmer records and market requirements are being verified before public operating claims expand.
FARMER NETWORK PROTOCOL
25 verified records. Then 50. Then 100.
These are verification milestones, not current farmer counts.
25
Build the first usable verified cohort and test the record standard.
50
Expand only after the first cohort produces reliable field and market information.
100
Scale the network when verification, support and market pathways can keep up.
WHO WE NEED
Build the value chain with us.
Farmers & FBOs
Grow cassava? Tell us where you farm, roughly how much you grow and when you expect to harvest.
Farmer pathway →Buyers & processorsTell us what you need: product, volume, quality, delivery window and payment terms.
Buyer pathway →Technical, program & capital partnersStrengthen agronomy, planting material, processing, finance, logistics or markets.
Partner pathway →CURRENT CASSAVA MISSION