Verticroft Holdings is the Middle East-focused food security and sustainable agriculture-focused holding company with portfolio companies in Agri-tech, precision agriculture cultivation, livestock breeding, food security, food distribution, and F&B.
The Middle East’s First Vertically Integrated Food Security Company
We produce premium, grass-fed lamb, significantly reducing animal feed imports, producing the world’s finest lamb, from farm to plate.
About Us
Vision
Multi Award Winning, Record Breaking Sheep Breed,
Farmed in the Middle East by Verticroft Holdings
The Australian White (AW) was developed by three major sheep stud operations in Australia over several years and was launched in 2011.
Utilizing embryo transfer, artificial insemination, and selective line breeding, the “best” characteristics of the four source breeds were used to develop the AW.
The original design was to be a self-replacing meat sheep that sheds its own hair, can survive in extreme weather conditions (from cold and wet to hot and arid environments), early maturing, and breed year-round.
Fed With The World's Most Sustainable Animal Feed
Verticroft Holdings rear sheep on grass, produced locally and hydroponically in the Middle East. Our farm has a 20 metric tonne per day production capacity of a sustainable, environmentally produced highly nutritious, protein packed and highly digestible feed for all kinds of livestock. Scientifically proven health, environmental and cost saving benefits.
Our Fodder contains vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, B6, B12, C, E, and K. It also has beta carotene, pantothenic acid, and folic acid. It has minerals such as calcium, iron, potassium, magnesium, organic sodium, and phosphorus. Finally, it also boasts of amino acids, chlorophyll, fiber, protein, and enzymes.
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Solving One Of The Biggest Challenges
In The Middle East
The Middle East have only two options, either import animal feed to feed inefficient animals, or import meat. Neither provide a fair, affordable or economically viable model to farmers or consumers with the cost of both animal feed and meat in the GCC some of the highest in the world.
A lack of available and affordable animal feed ,95% of all animal feed in the GCC is imported from overseas at a great economic expense
A lack of suitable sheep breed that is economically viable from a feeding and management perspective the GCC currently imports circa 3 billion USD of lamb on an annual basis and is the largest per capita consumer of lamb in the world.
GCC Food Market Report
Verticroft Holdings is creating a solution to one of the largest challenges faced by the Middle East- the ability to attain food security.
Meet the Team
Ryan Singlehurst
CEO
Amine Ben
COO
Marina Gorobetchi
HR & Procurement
Hein Nieuwoudt
Head of Agriculture
Abbas Mirza
Director - Corporate Finance
Wilfed Van Der Linde
FARM MANAGER
Dr. Zahoor Muzafar Said
VETERINARIAN
Matthew Doyle
Head Grower
