Westland, located in the western Netherlands, is widely recognized as the global hub for high-tech greenhouse horticulture. It is home to the world’s largest concentration of greenhouses, generating over €6 billion annually. The region plays a crucial role in advancing sustainable food production, agritech innovations, and energy-efficient farming solutions—expertise that could support Nigeria’s agricultural transformation.

During the mission, the delegation will meet with government agencies, agribusinesses, and industry leaders to exchange knowledge and explore potential partnerships. A key highlight of the visit will be the Netherlands Pavilion at the 2025 Agrofood Fair, where the companies will showcase their expertise, engage with stakeholders, and discuss solutions tailored to Nigeria’s agricultural challenges. 

With food security and sustainable agriculture becoming increasingly critical, the Netherlands continues to position itself as a key partner in developing resilient food systems through innovation and collaboration. This trade mission serves as another step toward strengthening Dutch-Nigerian agricultural relations and unlocking new opportunities for growth. 

Meet the companies

Afri Agri Products LTD

Afri Agri Products Ltd is a trusted partner for horticulture, specializing in climate-resilient solutions for greenhouses and open fields in Nigeria. They represent leading Dutch seed breeders, including Enza Zaden, Syngenta, Pop Vriend, Top Harvest, and Majstro, offering high-quality vegetable seeds tailored to local conditions. They also provide innovative biological pest management solutions from Koppert. Afri Agri’s  product range includes nutrients, potting soil, and coco peat for optimal plant growth. With expert advice and personalized support, Afri Agri are committed to ensuring the success of agricultural projects.

Enza Zaden Africa

Enza Zaden Africa is part of the global Enza Zaden family, a family-run breeding company dedicated to developing, producing, and distributing vegetable seeds worldwide. They focus on sought-after crops like tomatoes, sweet peppers, lettuce, cucumbers, onions, and melons, providing high-quality, sustainable varieties to growers, traders, and consumers.

Since 2017, their South Africa office has served Sub-Saharan Africa, offering technical expertise and trial data. With a diverse portfolio of 30+ crops, they continuously develop new varieties to meet farmers' evolving needs. As a multi-local company, Enza Zaden blends global expertise with local insights. Their investment in R&D keeps us at the forefront of innovation, ensuring top solutions for our customers, Breeding to Feed the World.
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Agrico

Agrico is a powerful cooperative and a force for innovation within the potato sector, creating, strengthening and increasing the sustainability of potato value chains. Agrico delivers strong and healthy potato varieties to destinations around the world that are perfectly suited to local conditions and markets. They develop, produce and market high-quality seed and ware potatoes, cultivated by both conventional and organic methods.
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AVR Manufactures

AVR manufactures a full range of potato machinery. From planting bed preparation, planting and ridging to haulm topping, harvesting and storing.
The mission of AVR is clear: we manufacture, market and service machines for potato growers who wish to work more sustainably and efficiently. They market innovative technology and products that make it possible to store more saleable potatoes with less effort in less time, using less fuel and with less soil compaction.
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Bakker Brothers

Bakker Brothers is a Dutch vegetable seed breeding company with a proud heritage and a forward-looking vision. Founded in the Netherlands in 1928, they focus on the breeding, production, and distribution of high-quality vegetable seeds. Bakker Brothers dedicated teams oversee every aspect of the seed business, from start to finish.

As a global company, Bakker Brothers operate offices and facilities across Europe, the Middle East, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Their breeding programs are carried out internationally, and they run product trials on every continent to ensure the best performance in diverse growing conditions
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Control Union Certifications 

Control Union Certifications obtains and maintains the highest level of integrity through its accreditations from numerous government and industry organizations, ensuring our services and
certificates are kept at the highest level.
Control Union Certifications is accredited by: national accreditation bodies, including the Dutch RvA (I192, C412, C499) or the Sri Lankan SLAB (CP 004-01) industry accreditation organizations, such as ASI (ASI-ACC-017) and governmental accreditations, such as the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).
In addition, Control Union Certifications maintains more than a dozen other accreditations for national and industry programs. Control Union Certifications has a global quality management system that is constantly reviewed, both internally and externally, by numerous national and international accreditation bodies.

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Delphy

Delphy is a consulting company, which delivers worldwide Expertise for successful cultivation of crops & flowers. They provide cultivation knowledge/expertise, advisory services, research, turnkey project design, implementation & management, tailor made trainings and data-driven cultivation technology partners in the plant sectors worldwide. Employing more than 100 designated crop experts in greenhouse and open field cultivation and over 50 project managers Delphy contributes to the success of our partners thus reinforcing our success and value creation in the sector. 

The experts at Delphy are reliable and knowledgeable, they take responsibility for the interests of our partners and maintain objectivity by their independent position, recommendations, and advice.
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East West Seed

East West Seed is the leading tropical vegetable seed company in Asia and rapidly expanding in Africa and Latin America, with the mission of improving the lives of farmers by providing quality vegetable seeds and relevant training on sustainable farming techniques.
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HZPC Holland

HZPC Holland is a global leader in potato breeding, seed potato trading, and innovative solutions for the potato industry. Headquartered in the Netherlands, HZPC develops and distributes high-quality seed potatoes to over 90 countries, supporting sustainable agriculture and food security. 
The company focuses on breeding new potato varieties with improved yield, disease resistance, and adaptability to diverse climates. HZPC collaborates with farmers, processors, and retailers to enhance the entire potato value chain. Innovation, sustainability, and quality are at the core of its operations, ensuring better food production worldwide. With a strong research and development focus, HZPC continuously works on future-proofing potato cultivation.
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Koppert West Africa (KWA)

Koppert West Africa (KWA) is the regional subsidiary of the Dutch Koppert Group, a global pioneer in biological control and pollination. Founded on more than 50 years of expertise, KWA draws on science and innovation to develop natural solutions that replace chemical pesticides. Its objective is to guarantee healthy crops, optimized yields and environmentally friendly agriculture. Koppert has thus revolutionized agriculture by offering effective alternatives to traditional methods. Present in more than 100 countries, Koppert West Africa provides its solutions to farmers in the sub-region, with products and services adapted to local realities.
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Lumiforte

OPTIMALLY BENEFIT FROM LIGHT AND HEAT IN EVERY SEASON. ReduSystems is the global leading brand in developing coatings and cleaners for greenhouse cultivation. The products control the incidence of natural light and heat to optimize the climate for the crop in every season - from a cooler climate in summer and more light in winter, to diffuse light and changing the light spectrum

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Gemeente Westland

The municipality of Westland is the capital of Horticulture. In Westland and the Greenport West-Holland all the key players in the chain of greenhouse horticulture are concentrated in a region of less than 100 square kilometers: from seeds to growing, to packaging, transport and trade, supported by government as well as knowledge, technology and research institutes. 

In Westland, companies, growers, government and knowledge institutes meet each other on a day base, they share their challenges, think of solutions and work on new innovations that arrive as a result of this. This unique cooperation leads to new innovations and sustainable solutions to answer global challenges, such as health and nutrition, water and energy use, food safety and consumer trust.
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Rijk Zwaan

Rijk Zwaan is a family-owned international fruit and vegetable breeding company supplying seeds to growers in more than 100 countries. It breeds future-proof varieties in anticipation of climate change and market demands. To accelerate the breeding process and ensure high-quality seeds, they utilize technologies such as artificial intelligence, digital phenotyping, and data-driven breeding. This enables it to breed better, more sustainable varieties with higher yields and natural resistances to plant diseases for growers and chain partners all over the world.

Rijk Zwaan has an excellent catalogue for Africa. With varieties for the fertile highlands in Tanzania and other East African countries, but also varieties for the humid tropical lowlands and the northern desert climate of West Africa.

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TGS Agribusiness Solutions 

Based in the Netherlands, TGS Agribusiness Solutions brings Dutch agricultural innovation to emerging Central Asian, MENA, and African markets. The company has been involved in the latest innovations in vertical farming with the so-called Hippotainer; a Vertical Farm in a 40ft freight container with an integrated Deep Water Culture (DWC) system. 

TGS cooperates with leading Dutch companies in the agro-industrial sector. It is the official representative of vQm Packaging (the world leader in bulk MAP packaging solutions) in the MENA region. It currently cooperates with Europlant B.V., one of the top seed producers worldwide, to develop the potato sector in Nigeria by providing high-quality seed and suitable farmer accompaniment.
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Vegtech

Turnkey Greenhouse solution company 30 years’ experience in Africa. Find out more here