Silk Route Africa Africa's Gateway to China

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Silk Route Africa is a B2B digital trade platform purpose-built to connect African agricultural exporters with verified Chinese buyers and importers. We operate at the intersection of two powerful forces: Africa’s vast agricultural output and China’s insatiable demand for food imports — a market that exceeded $200 billion in recent years.
The Problem We Solve
Africa-China agricultural trade is a $348 billion corridor that remains almost entirely offline, relationship-dependent, and opaque. African farmers and agribusinesses — particularly SMEs — have no trusted, structured way to access Chinese buyers. They rely on costly middlemen, face documentation confusion, struggle with language barriers, and have zero visibility into Chinese market demand. On the Chinese side, importers lack a reliable source to discover, verify, and transact with African suppliers at scale.
What Our Platform Does
Silk Route Africa provides a structured marketplace where African agricultural exporters can l

Sectors Agritech, Import and export, Transport and logistics
Location Kiambu, Kenya
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