Agrico

Agrico is a deep-rooted and steadfast irrigation company. We build long-term relationships with customers, suppliers and colleagues to provide optimal irrigation solutions to the market.

In support of our mission, we develop a lot of software, for our team and for our customers.

What we build

We develop in-house, end to end:

• Custom line-of-business software that gives us an edge in sales, distribution and manufacturing. Built modern, built well.
• Irrigation control systems: we're the leading supplier of remote control for centre pivots and pumps in southern Africa, with thousands of devices live on air at any moment, from the hardware and PCBs up.
• Factory and process automation, including a serious push on our PVC pipe extrusion factory in Bellville.

How we work

We treat customers, suppliers and colleagues by the same standards, and we build our software in the same spirit.

We value and seek good judgement. Understanding a problem is the easy part now: AI tools can do the research and explain most things in minutes. What's left is judgement: knowing what to drill into, which questions to ask, and which decisions to make.

We care more about getting it right than being right. We seek truth: we test our assumptions and change our minds when the facts change.

We build things that create value for the customer. Almost everything we make exists to help someone serve a customer better: someone at a branch getting an order out, a farmer keeping a pivot running, or someone on the factory floor keeping a line in production.

We're here for the long haul. We hire for the long term. We mentor, support further study (often also financially), and prefer to promote from within.

We go deep on the craft. We value engineering depth that compounds over the years, not the framework of the month. AI writes almost all of our code now, but we own what we check in. What we build sticks around and gets used hard, so we keep it clean and maintainable for the future.

We work together, in the same place. We're a close-knit team that mostly works together in our Bellville offices in Cape Town. We chat around the coffee machine. And we give each other direct, specific feedback, which we treat as the work, not as friction. We're not looking for lone wolves.

Where we stand

We're a profitable, mid-sized company doing operational work that lasts. That means stability, real users, and impact you can see. It also means we're not a startup chasing a launch, or a company polishing a marketing funnel for hundreds of thousands of strangers. We move deliberately, and the satisfaction comes from durable craft for people who count on it. If that sounds like the right kind of work to you, we'd love to talk.

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