SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD PRODUCTION
Tomato paste from second-grade tomatoes for packaging facilities
Market
| Final Products | Tomato paste |
| Required Inputs | Second-grade tomatoes |
| Competing Products |
Low competition |
| Potential for Export | High |
Process
| Complexity – Type of Process | High–mechanical and thermal processes |
| Technology | Collecting, sorting, washing, cutting, evaporation, and sterilizing |
| Equipment and Material | Washing and cutting machines, evaporators, and sterilizer |
| Human Resources | Manual labor, chemical, and quality control engineers |
Business Linkage
| Forward Linkage | Packaging facilities |
| Local/Regional/Nationwide | Export & Local markets |
| Backward Linkage | Farmers |
| Supporting Entities | Equipment suppliers and testing facilities |
| Competitive Edge |
Could be lower cost and more tailored to industry needs as produced locally |
Economic Features
| Revenue Stream | Sales of tomato paste |
| CAPEX | The inputs and technology would cost an average of 2.4M 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) |
Considerations
| Key Challenge | Seasonality of supply, mass production, access to high-quality suppliers, food safety, marketing and sales, meeting product specification and standardization |
| Advantages | High profit margins and high value-addition |
| Potential Pathways to Growth | Production, sales and/or distribution of other value-added products (e.g., powder, extracts, sun dried tomato, flavored salsa, concentrate etc.) for various customer segments (packaged and branded or white label) |
General Impact
| Environmental | Reduces waste of agricultural produce and processing material close to the field reduces emissions in transportation |
| Social | Increases returns on agricultural products and creates job opportunities |
Impact on Sub-market(s), Cluster(s) and Value Chain(s)
| Relevant sub-market | Intermediary to industries (food, pharmaceutical, wood, and paper) |
| Lies within the following value chain/cluster(s) |
Tomatoes |
| Impact | Promotes value-addition to tomato production |
Studies
| Serial | File name | Download |
| 1 | UNIDO IGGE_VC Cluster Competitiveness & BOM |
