Final Products

Tomato paste

Required Inputs

Second-grade tomatoes

Competing Products

Low competition
Other brands of tomato paste in the local market and imported products

Potential for Export

High

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

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

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)

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)

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

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