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Dates to powder for food industry

Opportunity Description: Dates to powder for food industry (milk and juice factories as a cost competitive organic ingredient to replace chemical
PRODUCT: Dates powder
Sector: Sustainable Agriculture and Food Processing
Market: Food processing
Initial Investment Required: Above 500,000 EGP
Details Available:
Market Potential: Sold to Milk and juice factories in Upper Egypt and Red Sea and the Delta. Competing products include sugar.
Supply: Fresh dates from farmers in Luxor/Qena, rest of Upper Egypt and the Red Sea, and in the Delta
Process: Extraction -> spray drying (fluidized bed drying)
Human Resources: Manual labour – machine operators - chemists
Financial: CAPEX is above 500,000 EGP
OPEX is less than 150,000 EGP
Risk: Marketing and certification of product
IMPACT: Environmental: Utilization of second grade dates
Social: Increase return on agriculture dates