Avocado oil · Zero-waste agro-processing · Bujumbura
Burundi’s avocados,pressed into green gold.
Green Gold Burundi is the home of Green Processing Company (GPC), a Burundian agri-food company. We buy avocados from farms across the country’s hills and press them into premium crude avocado oil for food, cosmetics and refining buyers. Everything left after pressing is turned into fertilizer, feed and fuel.
From the hills, to the press, to the world, and back to the soil.
800 t
of avocados a day, planned capacity in year one
Target
Start here
Three ways in
- 01BuyersRefiners, food and cosmetics manufacturersGet specifications, lot certificates and Flexitank export terms for crude avocado oil.Request a sample
- 02FarmersGrowers and cooperativesSell Hass, Fuerte and local varieties to a plant that aims to source at least 70% of its fruit in Burundi.Become a supplier
- 03PartnersInvestors, institutions and governmentHelp build the plant, its certifications and the farmer network that keeps it supplied.Start a conversation
The opportunity
The fruit is already here.
Until now, the value left with it.
$13B
Global avocado market in 2020
Driven by health-conscious demand, especially in the EU.
5–7%
Forecast annual growth through 2027
Plant-based and clean-label diets keep widening the market.
May 2025
GPC begins operating in Burundi
Joining a growing network of Burundian agri-food processors.
Kenya and South Africa lead Africa’s avocado trade. Burundi has the climate, altitude and soils to grow excellent fruit but little processing capacity, so much of the value ends up elsewhere or rots on the tree. GPC was set up to press that fruit at home, to international standards, and to pay Burundian farmers for it.
Market figures as cited by Green Processing Company.
The model
One fruit. Four products.
Nothing leaves the plant as waste.
Crude avocado oil is our main product. Pulp residue, skins and seeds go into three more product lines, so a lower-grade fruit still has a use and the plant sends almost nothing to landfill.
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Crude avocado oil
Extracted from selected avocados and supplied to the food, cosmetics and refining industries.
- Pressed from sorted, washed and inspected fruit
- Each lot analysed for purity and authenticity
- Shipped in sealed Flexitanks
The chain
Seven steps between the tree and the tank.
Our process is rigorous, sustainable and certified. Each step exists to protect the one thing a buyer cannot check later: what happened to the fruit before it became oil.
What we press
Three varieties, one standard.
Hass
Pebbled skin, near-black when ripe
Creamy flesh with a nutty flavour and a high oil content. The benchmark variety for oil.
Fuerte
Smooth, thin green skin
Mild, buttery flavour. An established variety that gives a clean, light oil.
Local
Grown across Burundi’s hills
Grown in Burundi’s fertile soils. Valued for its generous flesh and rich nutrients.
Commitments
What we have committed to, in numbers.
These are targets, not achievements, and we are publishing them so partners can hold us to them.
800t / day
Avocado processing capacity at a modern plant, with room to expand
Year 1
15%
Share of the crude avocado oil segment
Within 3 years
70%
Minimum share of raw material sourced from Burundian farms
Ongoing
150+jobs
Direct jobs created, plus 500 indirect jobs along the chain
Build-out
50%
Share of those jobs held by women
Ongoing
ISO+ HACCP
International quality and food-safety certification
Within 2 years
50%
of jobs created held by women
Women first
Half the jobs. By design, not by accident.
Many of Burundi’s avocados are grown, picked and carried by women. We have committed to women holding at least half of the jobs we create, on the sorting line, in the laboratory, in logistics and in management. We are also working with women-led cooperatives on the supply side.
Why GPC
What a buyer gets.
- 01
Premium oil
Oil pressed only from carefully selected fruit. Rejected fruit is sent to our by-product lines, never into the press.
- 02
Modern technology
Up-to-date extraction equipment that keeps the oil’s natural nutrients intact.
- 03
A reliable export partner
Consistent volumes for local and international markets, delivered in secured Flexitanks.
“Every lot is analysed to meet international standards.”
Valoriser la nature, produire l’excellence.