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We are a semi-organic climate smart farming enterprise based in Maseru, Lesotho. Other facts include 90% less use of water and all year-round yielding.

Lema Agriventures Pty Ltd is a climate smart farming enterprise based in Maseru, Lesotho. We precisely grow plants without any use of soil, but typically use inert medium to support the plants. We use organic manure which the plant’s roots are directly exposed to, boosting growth and potency by 2x times than conventional farming. Our products and services include but are not limited to Hydroponics Training and Mentorship, Hydroponics System Design and Development, Hydroponics Fresh Produce, and AI-Based SaaS Farm Management System (Farmflex).

11/09/2026

From 60 plants to 360. Same piece of ground.

Khothatso Nkhabu farms in Mafeteng. He didn't buy more land - he changed how his land works.

He used to grow spinach and r**e in open soil. On a patch of 3m x 7m, he could carry about 60 plants at a time, and what he got out of it depended on the weather and the season.

Today that same 21sqm carries 360 plants. Lettuce and herbs, growing in stacked channels, fed by water that recirculates instead of running off. No soil. No waiting for one harvest a year.

And what does it earn him? 🤔 That's the question everybody asks first - and it's the one Khothatso would rather answer face to face. What we'll say is this: six times the plants, harvested all year instead of once a season, sold through the Lesponix Collective. That doesn't move a farm by a small margin.

Got about 20m² and reliable water? We'll tell you what it could carry. Free site assessment.

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09/09/2026

Last week our founder stood on the main stage in Kigali and told a room of investors, ministers and development banks a simple truth about Lesotho.

When the rains fail, our farmers lose everything. Then they are told they are too risky to lend to.

Lema Agrivest was in Kigali for the Africa Food Systems Forum, alongside more than 5,000 delegates from across the continent, for the Forum's twentieth year. Our founder Mochesane Mpali spoke in the Investment Room on financing small agricultural businesses, and spent the week with the African Union, AGRA-Sustainably Growing Africa’s Food Systems. , Heifer International and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and with a Member of Lesotho's Parliament who came to represent us.

But the reason we were in that room is the work that happens here at home. Our farmers remember 2024. El Niño turned a growing season into a disaster, and thousands of families watched a whole year's work disappear because the rain did not come.

That will happen again. Not if, but when. Our answer is not to hope for better weather. A farmer growing in one of our systems uses a fraction of the water that open-field farming needs. The crop does not depend on whether there’s enough rain. Nutrients are measured, not guessed. A bad season becomes a difficult season instead of a total loss.

Today we have growing systems standing across six of Lesotho's ten districts. It is over 70 farmers in the Lesponix Collective who now sell together instead of alone. The next phase is to improve quality and consistency of our products.

We are not going to stop the climate from changing. Nobody can promise that.
What we can do is make sure a Mosotho farmer is not one dry season away from losing everything.

That is the work. That is why we were in Kigali. And now we are home to get on with it.

Tell us - how did the last dry season treat your farm? What are you doing to protect your farm?

01/09/2026

Lema Agrivest takes the stage at The Africa Food Systems Forum - AGRF in Investment Room, Main Stage at 10:00 AM on Tuesday 01st September 2026

30/08/2026

Lema Agrivest has been in Kigali since Wednesday for the Africa Youth Agrifood Academy. The Africa Food Systems Forum opens on Monday, and on Tuesday 01st September 2026 morning our CEO will be on the Investment Room main stage, on financing MSMEs and startups in agri-food.

After a week of policy conversations, he goes in there to test one thing practical: what do financing instruments look like when they're designed for businesses that are already trading but too small to satisfy a bank?

If that's your work, his diary is open around the session. Scan the code or message him.

AGRA-Sustainably Growing Africa’s Food Systems. The Africa Food Systems Forum - AGRF

28/08/2026

Day 1 of the Africa Youth Agrifood Academy in Kigali - three days convened by the African Union, AGRA and AUDA-NEPAD before the Africa Food Systems Forum opens.

One question from this morning has stayed with me all day:
“In your country, where are young people treated as beneficiaries, and where are they genuinely shaping decisions, investments and implementation?”

In Lesotho, the honest answer is that we are counted more often than we are consulted. Youth appear in the targets of most agriculture programmes. We appear far less often in the rooms where those programmes are designed, priced and reviewed.

We spent the afternoon mapping one youth agrifood issue into our national policy and implementation cycle. Mine was finance - not whether it exists, but the terms attached to it. A grant facility can be genuinely well designed and still exclude the businesses it was written for, if it asks a young company to produce a third of the money in cash before anything is disbursed.

That is a design question, not a complaint. And the CAADP Kampala Implementation Guidelines we worked through today put design squarely inside the cycle where youth can engage - governance, diagnostics, investment design, and mutual accountability.

Two more days here, then the Investment Room at on Monday, where I'll make the same argument to a different room.

22/08/2026

Lema Agrivest 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐮𝐦!

From 31 August–4 September, we’ll be in Kigali, Rwanda, joining leaders, innovators and partners in Investment Room, Main Stage under the theme:

“Strengthening Financial Ecosystems for MSMEs & Startups.”

21/06/2026

Year-round food production systems, such as plastic tunnels, hydroponics, and climate-smart localized farming, are critical amid El Niño. They act as a vital buffer against climate shocks, protecting harvests from El Niño-induced droughts, erratic rainfall, and heat waves that routinely devastate traditional, rain-fed agriculture.

19/06/2026

In Maseru, Ha Makhoathi there’s a farm called Green Hectares Farm owned by one of the country’s business heavyweights. This is the largest hydroponic plant Lesotho has ever seen and of course it was built by the one and only hydroponic company in Lesotho Lema Agrivest. Capacity is well over 13 000 heads of lettuce, and if they were to grow it using soil they would be looking for around 3000-4000 heads. Stay tuned for a full project rollout. 😎

16/06/2026

Free guided tours are always welcome at Lema Agrivest farm. This is how we have always been giving back to the community. Get in touch if you need a free tour. 🤝

08/06/2026

Our cherry tomato is ready for harvest, but we will wait a few more weeks for others to catch up then we will start. Keep in touch

Address

Khubetsoana Selakhapane
Maseru
100

Website

http://www.lema.co.ls/

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