SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD PRODUCTION
Dried fruits and vegetables for export
Market
| Final Products | Dried fruits and vegetables for export |
| Required Inputs | Agricultural produce (tomatoes, mangoes, bananas, grapes) |
| Competing Products |
Low competition |
| Potential for Export | High |
Process
| Complexity – Type of Process | Medium – thermal process |
| Technology | Solar drying, hot-air drying, cold storage and packaging |
| Equipment and Material | Boilers, heating chambers, hot air dryers, cold storage and packaging machines |
| Human Resources | Manual labor, quality control engineers, food safety and marketing specialists |
Business Linkage
| Forward Linkage | Export market |
| Local/Regional/Nationwide | Export and local markets |
| Backward Linkage | Farmers |
| Supporting Entities | Equipment and packaging material suppliers, testing facilities and marketing services companies |
| Competitive Edge |
Could be lower cost and more tailored to market needs (sizes, etc.) as produced locally |
Economic Features
| Revenue Stream | Sales of dried fruits and vegetables |
| CAPEX | Consists mainly of the cost of machinery with an average of 752K EGP |
| Investment Size | Small (between 500k-5M EGP) Note: This CAPEX represents the indicative investment size, however, this investment opportunity can grow in implementation to a larger-sized investment. |
Considerations
| Key Challenge | Seasonality of produce and maintaining high-quality control and assurance measures, access to suppliers, marketing and sales, meeting product specification and standardization and absence of dedicated land for cold storage |
| Advantages | High availability of supply and high demand |
| Potential Pathways to Growth | Production of packaged and branded dried fruits and vegetables of different sizes and for different markets – natural/healthy snack mixes – production of natural extracts/powder as feedstock/final products |
General Impact
| Environmental | Reduces waste of agricultural produce and processing material close to the field, reduces emissions in transportation |
| Social | Increases returns on agricultural activities and creates job opportunities for both unskilled labor and women |
Impact on Sub-market(s), Cluster(s) and Value Chain(s)
| Relevant sub-market | Dried products |
| Lies within the following value chain/cluster(s) |
Tomatoes, food processing and packaging |
| Impact | Promotes value-addition to agricultural products |
Studies
| Serial | File name | Download |
| 1 | UNIDO IGGE_VC Cluster Competitiveness & BOM |
