Final Products

Fiber bedding for animal farms

Required Inputs

Corn and cotton waste mainly

Competing Products

Other bedding materials

Complexity – Type of Process

Mechanical

Technology

Crushing of corn and cotton waste (eventually expanding into other sources of waste)

Equipment and Material

Crusher, packaging, and tools/ equipment

Human Resources

Manual labor

Competitive Advantage

High demand and ease to produce

Barriers to Entry

Securing a continuous level of supply to satisfy the high demand for farms

Key Stakeholders

Local farmers providing agricultural waste, poultry, and cattle farmers as bedding consumers, local waste traders

Special Regulations

NA

Risks and Mitigation Measures

Seasonality of agricultural waste affects the supply levels, so it’s important to have a diverse supply of waste in order to ensure consistency of quantity of end product. Scattered sources of supply complicate logistics and increase overall costs of transportation, therefore optimizing the location of the processing facility is key.

Revenue Stream

Selling bedding to breeders (chicken farms)

CAPEX

The inputs and technology would cost an average of 620K EGP

Note: This CAPEX represents the indicative investment size, however, this investment opportunity can grow in implementation to a larger-sized investment.

Investment Size

Small (between 500k-5M EGP)

Location of Supply

Supply is mostly in the Delta region and Upper Egypt

Preferred
operation
regions

Delta and Upper Egypt