Frequently asked questions

Agrecir Global is an international agriculture company founded in 2006, working in eight countries across Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe. The work began in Pakistan. We organise and train farmers, inspect their farms, prepare them for organic, regenerative and other certifications, and link their harvests to buyers and processors. We work for textile mills, brands, food companies and development partners.

Ag for agriculture, Re for regenerative, Cir for circularity. Together they describe how we work: practical farming that rebuilds the soil, and value that stays within farming communities.

Mukhdoom Mashhood Ahmed, who leads the company as Founder and Managing Director. He has worked as Country Advisor for C&A Foundation and as Country Head in Pakistan for Laudes Foundation, and has led WWF-Pakistan's Regenerative Production Landscape Collaboratives work.

We work in eight countries across Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe. We have field teams and offices in Pakistan, Tanzania, Malaysia, the UAE and Türkiye, partners in Kenya and Slovenia, and an organic spice project in Sri Lanka. The company began in Pakistan in 2006.

No. Accredited certification bodies audit and certify farms. We prepare farmer groups, farms and records for certification, run internal inspections beforehand and follow up on audit findings.

Yes. Agrecir Global is a voting member of IFOAM – Organics International, the worldwide umbrella organisation for the organic movement.

Farmers are organised into groups and registered, then trained through the season. Our Internal Control Inspectors inspect every farm against the organic standard before the certification body audits the group. Certified seed cotton is then sold to certified ginners, with the records that let buyers trace it.

Organic cotton is defined by rules on inputs: no synthetic pesticides, fertilisers or GMO seed. Regenerative cotton is defined by outcomes for soil health, water and biodiversity. A farm can be both. We run organic and regenerative cotton programmes, sometimes for the same textile group.

Cotton grown while land is being converted to organic. Conversion usually takes up to three years, depending on the standard and the land's history. During that time the cotton can be sold as in-conversion, but not yet as organic.

33,500 acres (13,557 ha) of cotton in organic and regenerative programmes, with 3,798 farmers, as of 2026.

Organic, the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS), the Organic Content Standard (OCS), Better Cotton, GlobalG.A.P. and regenerative standards such as Regenagri.

A farmer group's own documented system for registering members, training them and inspecting their farms. It lets smallholders be certified together: the certification body checks the system and a sample of farms, rather than auditing every farm separately.

No. We also run programmes for mangoes, dates, bananas, rice, chillies, sesame, canola, roses and spices. They cover GlobalG.A.P., organic and regenerative certification, low-methane rice research, and processing such as dried mango pulp.

Tell us the crop, the region, the volume and the standard you need, through the contact form or by email at [email protected]. We'll talk it through, visit the area and send a proposal with scope, team, timeline and reporting.

Yes. We can take on districts, crops or standards your current partner doesn't cover, or provide internal inspection and quality assurance alongside their work.

We hire area coordinators, Internal Control Inspectors, field officers and quality assurance officers for programmes in Sindh, Punjab and Balochistan. Open roles are listed on our careers page.