Building Protein Value Chains in Southeast Asia and MENA: Where Capital Meets Impact

Protein demand in Southeast Asia and MENA is growing faster than local supply. The gap is filled by imports, which strain foreign exchange, create dependency, and leave populations exposed to global price and supply shocks. Closing the gap requires more than farms—it requires entire value chains: genetics that perform in local conditions, breeding and production that meet biosecurity and productivity standards, and logistics and trading that connect supply to processors and consumers.

Fragmented, smallholder-dominated systems struggle to attract the capital and expertise needed to upgrade at scale. The solution is to institutionalise the chain: structured breeding programmes, controlled environments where they matter (e.g. hatcheries, nucleus herds), veterinary and diagnostic protocols, and clear offtake and market access. When those pieces are integrated and run to institutional standards, they become assets that banks and institutional investors can finance and scale.

Kordoba Agrotech focuses on two protein pillars where value-chain integration has the highest impact: small ruminants (sheep and goats) and aquaculture. In both, we combine genetic optimisation and breeding infrastructure with hatchery-to-market or farm-to-market execution. The aim is not to replace smallholders but to anchor them in systems that provide genetics, advisory, health, and market access—lifting productivity and de-risking production.

In small ruminants, that means advanced breeding programmes tailored to regional environments, institutional live-animal trading networks, and farm advisory that delivers measurable productivity gains. In aquaculture, it means end-to-end hatchery systems, controlled grow-out, biosecurity and traceability, and integrated export and trading channels. Across 200+ farm implementations, we have seen average productivity uplifts that make the case for structured investment in these chains.

Our footprint spans Malaysia (headquarters), Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and broader Southeast Asia. Each market is chosen for its food security priorities, government alignment, and potential for scalable, repeatable deployment. Expansion is sequenced to balance growth with operational control: we consolidate and prove models before extending to new geographies.

Governance is built for institutional partners. Clear decision rights, disciplined capital allocation, transparent reporting, and ESG-aligned frameworks are non-negotiable. So is technical leadership: our team brings veterinary, operational, and project-management depth so that execution matches the ambition of the strategy.

Building protein value chains in these regions is where capital meets impact. The opportunity is to back platforms that are already on the ground, aligned with policy, and built to scale. For investors and partners who think in decades rather than quarters, that is the thesis.