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WORD FROM THE EDITOR
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Dear visitor and international investor,
We
warmly welcome you, if this is
your first visit to Africabiz
Online - The ultimate newsletter
on trading and investing in 49
sub-Saharan African countries.
If you are a regular and faithful
reader, welcome back.
If you are a regular and faithful reader, welcome back.
COMPREHENSIVE ONLINE NEWSLETTER ON INVESTING AND TRADING
IN AFRICA
At the beginning of the new millennium,
AFRICABIZ team moved a step further in providing:
- African
countries' decision-makers with the latest news
and information on several development fields.
- The
international community of investors with information,
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decisions for their undertakings in Africa and
elsewhere.
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One field in particular: GENETICS - which is
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In addition to these several pages of
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Our next objective
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working on it. It
is a long term target. We'll keep you posted as soon
as that important investing tool is available.
Many
thanks for dropping by and see you here next month.
Dr. B.M.
Quenum
Editor
of AFRICABIZ
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BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITIES IN AFRICA
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ADDITIONAL INCOME / OPPORTUNITY RELATED TO A FREEZE-DRIED
PAPAIN PRODUCTION PLANT :
ANIMAL BREEDING.
On the promotion board, last month, we exposed a "niche"
operation: FREEZE-DRIED PAPAIN PRODUCTION which could
be used as "economic
catalyst" and launching pad for the
economic development of an African country's regional
territory. Click
here for more.
This month we add a new business opportunity to the
PAPAIN production: Animal breeding
As
can be seen in the table below, an operation to produce
35 metric tons of high grade freeze-dried papain needs
390,000 to 920,000 papaya trees; and depending on the
initial papaya seeds used to establish the plantation,
each tree give in average 50kg of papaya fruits. That
is to say for the entire plantation 19,500 to 46,000
metric tons of papaya fruits.
At the end of the cycle of removing the latex from
the papaya fruit to produce PAPAIN, the "waste"
of the papaya fruit could be used as raw material for
animal feed formulation.
A fifty fifty blend of papaya fruit, straw and some
essential medicines and chemicals will make excellent
animal feed and increase the bottom line of the whole
operation. 39,000 to 92,000 metric tons of animal feed
will be available to breed 12,000 heads of cattle per
year (3000 per quarter) or 60, 000 pigs per years. (10,000
pigs every two months)
| Plantation
of Papaya |
260
to 400 hectares. 1,500 to 2,300 trees per hectare
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Investment
as below outlined
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Workforce
on plantation - 400 to 650 workmen for latex collection
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Plant
management: approximately 40 skilled technicians
and engineers
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1-
Initial survey
Construction/
2- Setup of plant
3- Plantation setup
4- Staff training
5- Technology transfer + Startup Assistance. Etc.
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Total
investment
US $ |
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8,000,000
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| Production
full capacity |
35
-38 metric tons of freeze-dried papain
Minimum activity guaranteed: 1,600 IU/mg
Possible: 3,200 IU/mg
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| Average
selling price: US $ per metric ton |
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190,000
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| Total
revenue / per year at full capacity: US $ |
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6,650,000
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| Pay-back
period |
4
to 5 years
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| R.O.I |
40
to 50%
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The fundamentals / Revenue and R.O.I outlined in the
table are based only on proceeds from the main production
of freeze dried papain.
One
can see - considering these additional operations -
why the production of PAPAIN can be used as an "economic
catalyst" / central operation for the economic
development of a country's region as here
exposed. It is a perfect "Income Building Power"
operation; labor intensive and foreign currency provider
or saver. Capable of generating the "Synergetic
Impact Factor" here
available
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