About
East African Pulses & Beans Export
We specialise in sourcing and preparing East African pulses and dry beans for international commodity buyers. That is the whole of the business — not a line in a longer list of things we trade.
- Commodities
- 26 covered
- Origins
- 9 across East and Southern Africa
- Primary origin
- Tanzania
Specialisation is the point. A trading company that lists pulses alongside cashews, sesame, spices, minerals and whatever else came through the door last season is doing something different from what this business does — it is arbitraging availability, and there is nothing wrong with that, but it is not expertise in a commodity. Knowing that bruchid damage in pigeon peas has to come out on a gravity table rather than a screen, or that a canner will reject a navy bean lot on size spread before it looks at purity, is knowledge you only acquire by working the same handful of crops repeatedly.
The commercial chain is straightforward and this site describes every step of it: buying in the producing districts, intake assessment, conditioning where moisture requires it, cleaning and grading to the contracted specification, final check against contract, weighing and bagging, container stuffing, and the document set that travels with the cargo.
What we deliberately do not do on this site is publish claims we cannot evidence. There are no tonnage figures, no counts of countries served, no years-in-business badge, no certification logos and no photographs of facilities presented as ours. Where a credential exists it is published as a verifiable number; where it does not, nothing is shown. A buyer evaluating a 500 MT contract can tell the difference, and the ones worth working with check.
Capabilities
What the work actually involves
- Sourcing network
- Buying through village aggregators, district markets and warehouse operators in the producing regions, organised around each origin's harvest window. The widest choice of colour type, size and crop-fresh material exists while the crop is moving, which is when buying is concentrated.
- Procurement discipline
- Lots are assessed at the buying point and again at intake for moisture, foreign matter, damaged and immature grain, admixture and live insect activity. Material outside the tolerance for the intended contract is diverted or refused rather than blended in and hoped for.
- Processing coordination
- Cleaning, grading and packing is arranged at the processing point appropriate to the origin, volume and specification. Where a contract needs a particular capability — a sorting intensity, metal detection, a specific packing format — it is confirmed for that facility before the contract is concluded.
- Quality control
- Composite sampling at intake and again on the finished lot, checked against the contract parameters, with retained samples held so any later discussion refers back to what was actually packed.
- Export preparation
- Net weighing, bagging, marking and lot identification to the agreed packing specification, container inspection and lining where required, stowage and sealing with the seal number recorded on the documents.
- Documentation
- Assembling the document set so that description, weights, marks, container and seal numbers reconcile across invoice, packing list, bill of lading, certificate of origin and phytosanitary certificate — the single most common cause of clearance delay and letter-of-credit rejection.
- Inspection coordination
- Where the buyer, its bank or the destination requires independent verification, arranging access for the appointed inspection company at the agreed sampling and stuffing point.
- Freight coordination
- Inland movement from the producing regions to the packing point and the port, container booking, and planning around the road weight limits and seasonal congestion that determine what can actually be loaded and when.
Process
Farm-gate to port
- 01
Sourcing
Farm-gate and aggregation in the producing districts
- 02
Intake
Sampling, moisture check, lot identity
- 03
Cleaning
Pre-clean, aspiration, screening, destoning
- 04
Grading
Size and density separation to contract
- 05
Sortex
Optical colour sorting where specified
- 06
Inspection
Final check against contract parameters
- 07
Packing
Net weighing, bagging, marking, lot reference
- 08
Container
Container check, stowage, sealing
- 09
Port
Documentation and vessel booking
Position
How we talk about what we can supply
Availability at an origin is a function of the current crop, not of a standing catalogue. A season that finished badly will not yield much material in the largest size bands, and no amount of screening changes that. So specification and size availability are confirmed against the current harvest at the time of enquiry rather than published as a promise.
Where a requirement cannot be covered — the size band does not exist this year, the shipment window does not work for the origin, the specification is not achievable at the price — the answer is that it cannot be covered. That is more useful to a procurement manager than an offer that quietly becomes a problem at discharge.
Verification
Buyers who need company registration, licence documentation, loading photographs or documentation samples before contracting can request them with an enquiry. They are provided against a specific requirement rather than published as marketing.
Working on a requirement?
Send the product, specification, quantity, packing, destination and Incoterm. If we cannot cover it, you will be told plainly.
- Origin
- Specification
- Quantity
- Packing
- Destination port
- Incoterm