Final Products

Pheromone pest control traps

Required Inputs

Pheromones and materials

Competing Products

Low competition
Pesticides (chemical)

Potential for Export

High

Complexity – Type of Process

Simple – machinery

Technology

Design and machinery of traps (from bottles, plastics or metals)

Equipment and Material

Plastics, metals and pheromones

Human Resources

Manual labor, quality control engineers and biochemists

Forward Linkage

Farmers

Local/Regional/Nationwide

Export & local markets

Backward Linkage

Material suppliers and pheromones

Supporting Entities

Equipment suppliers and organizations for product specification and standardization like EOS

Competitive Edge

Bio-based alternative for farmers at low-cost

Revenue Stream

Sale of traps and services to maintain them

CAPEX

Consists of the cost of machinery which cost an average of 112K EGP

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

Investment Size

Micro (less than 500K EGP)

Key Challenge

Competition with traditional pesticides and scaling up production, supply access and quality, in addition to marketing and sales services

Advantages

Low-cost organic pest control

Potential Pathways to Growth

Production, sales and/or distribution of full/customized pest control solutions for different types of farms and crops (could also include Internet of Things (IoT) applications for pest control)

Environmental

Prevents harmful effects of chemical pesticides on agriculture

Social

Low-cost pesticides reduce cost of agriculture activities

Relevant sub-market

Technology/equipment manufacturing

Lies within the following
value chain/cluster(s)

Fruits and vegetables

Impact

Enhances the quality of farm production