How Tom Projects evolved from selling land into developing agricultural investments · sourcing, studying, structuring, and managing opportunities in Türkiye and Spain.
Tom Projects began in 2019 with agricultural land development in Türkiye, selling plots from one hectare upward to participants who wanted land ownership with operational support. The model grew quickly. Over several years, it also revealed its structural limits.
The original question was simple: could we give participants real ownership of productive agricultural land without requiring them to become farmers? The answer turned out to be yes · but the structure needed to evolve.
Fragmented land ownership created operational problems at every stage. These are not hypothetical. They are what we observed.
Wells, pumps, and drip irrigation systems do not work economically at one-hectare increments. Water infrastructure built for small plots runs at a loss and tends to degrade. Scale · 10 hectares or more per water system · is the minimum for viable long-term operation.
Hand-off between neighbouring owners created inconsistent protocols. Trees planted at the same time but managed differently produced very different results by year five. A single team managing a single orchard outperforms a dozen owners each managing a slice.
Hundreds of separate titles made unified reporting impractical. Participants received inconsistent updates. Accountability diffused across too many parties. Structured single-project ownership solved this · whether direct title or a dedicated vehicle: one project, one set of books, one consistent report.
Decisions made at the small-plot level slowed orchard-level management. Optimisations that would benefit all plots got blocked by individual preferences. Centralised execution with proportional ownership turned out to be the better structure.
Today Tom Projects works as an agricultural investment developer: we source, study, structure, and manage the opportunity · and every project must survive the study before it is offered.
Türkiye · direct-title Chandler walnut land, bought empty or planted and developed for you. Spain · olive and pistachio projects under private ownership or a shared structure, sourced to your brief. Egypt · large-scale mandates only, from 200 feddans.
Direct title in your name, or one dedicated vehicle per shared project. Clean governance, consistent reporting, defined exit mechanics · never hundreds of loose ends.
You bring budget, area, crop, and ownership preference; we study the market and return a tailored proposal within 3 business days. Quality over volume · if it fails the study, it is never offered.
Field work is executed by selected professional local operators in each country · people who farm for a living. Tom Projects retains control of what matters: the structure, the budget, the reporting standard, and the right to select · and replace · every operator.
Farmland is one of the few asset classes with productive output measured in decades. Olive trees produce commercially for 30+ years. Walnut orchards produce for 50 to 100+ years. Both improve with maturity rather than deteriorating · a profile that distinguishes agricultural assets from most depreciating investments.
Global population is projected to reach approximately 9.7 billion by 2050, while arable land per capita continues to decline. The supply side is constrained by finite usable land. The demand side grows with every additional consumer. The arithmetic of food production favours the owner of productive land.
Agricultural yield is tied to biological output, not equity cycles or interest rate movements. Farmland has historically shown low correlation to public markets and inflation-resistance through food price dynamics. It is not a short-duration asset. It is not liquid. It is long, slow, and durable.
