Final Products

Dried aromatic plants and spices

Required Inputs

Aromatic plants (e.g., caraway, cumin)

Competing Products

Low competition
Imported dried aromatic plants and other brands in local market

Potential for Export

High

Complexity – Type of Process

Simple – manual process

Technology

Solar drying/hot-air drying

Equipment and Material

Racks, nets and packaging materials

Human Resources

Manual labor, quality control and food safety specialists

Forward Linkage

Retailers and consumers

Local/Regional/Nationwide

Local market - nationwide

Backward Linkage

Farmers

Supporting Entities

Rack and net suppliers, marketing services companies, testing facilities

Competitive Edge

Provides high-quality dried aromatic plants at low-cost

Revenue Stream

Sales of sun-dried aromatic plants

CAPEX

starting from 42K EGP depending on scale

Investment Size

Micro (less than 500K EGP)

Note: This CAPEX represents the indicative investment size, however, this investment opportunity can start from a micro-scale investment and grow in scale to a larger-scale investment.

Key Challenge

Maintaining high product quality, food safety, access to suppliers, marketing and sales, meeting product specification and standardization, lack of definition of what constitutes activities which can be conducted on farm versus industrial zones (IZ)

Advantages

Cost-competitive product and simple technology

Potential Pathways to Growth

Production, sales and/or distribution of other types of dried/powder/extracts from medicinal/aromatic plants and herbs for various customer segments (packaged and branded or white label)

Environmental

Reduces waste of agricultural produce, utilization of sustainable energy and processing material close to the field reduces emissions in transportation

Social

Increases returns on agriculture activities and creates job opportunities for both unskilled labor and women

Relevant sub-market

Dried products

Lies within the following
value chain/cluster(s)

Medical/aromatic plants and herbs, food processing and packaging

Impact

Promotes value-addition to medical/aromatic plant and herb production