Growing and preserving organic products

Project summary

Description of the economy and the concept of development

Name of the farm: LLC "First Organic Nursery"

Registered trademark: TM " Organic Garden ", Available certificate "Organic Standard"

Member: GS 1 Ukraine Association (barcodes, 18 positions), member of the Farmer's Family Cooperative

Product sales: Alliance Market LLC (Arsen Network), Lvivkholod LLC (Rukavychka Network), Lviv Network-Service PE (Blizenko Network), HoReCa segment , fairs, delivery Ecobioagromarket, delivery from cooperative Farmer's family, own delivery, Complex "Rixos Prykarpattya", complex "Edem Resort"

Preliminary arrangements for the sale of products: Metro chain, Two Steps chain of stores, Tradition Shop (Silpo), Other catering establishments in the HoReCa segment in Lviv, as well as in Truskavets and Skhidnytsia.

Description of the Farm

Location in an ecologically clean area, land bank - 8 hectares (lease, 8 years), 1.5 hectares (property, arranged drainage)

Machinery Tractor Dong Feng 404 (2016 g), optional equipment: Disc harrow Bomet, three corps plow Bomet, hryadoukladchyk

Other:

Leased premises: 300 sq.m. - production area, 80 sq.m. - basement, 300 sq.m. - attic. Including the product storage chamber - 80 cubic meters. (25 sq. M.)

Pumping station with a capacity of 60 cubic meters. per hour. Lake with an area of 0.4 hectares for irrigation. Power line to the field - 30 kW. (1.5 km)

A site for hardening of seedlings, a platform under the greenhouse with the area of 600 sq.m. available fogging and sprinkling system for the greenhouse (Greenhouse needs restoration)

0.20 ha of alpine strawberry and peppermint queen were planted.

Enterprise provided s / d implements, cassettes, pots, agrofibre, labels, packing materials and other necessary supplies and materials

Experience:

• Growing seedlings
• Reproduction of berry crops (in the past, a license to grow raspberries of the Joan Jay variety, passed inspection and received certificates from the Center for Certification and Approbation of Nurseries)
• Growing vegetables and greens, potted plants
• Production of organic fertilizers and pesticides, technical maps are available

There is an irrigation system for the greenhouse (sprinkling, fog - Netafim ) , fertilizer application system

Development opportunities:

• launch of a processing plant, canning of vegetables and mushrooms, production of jams;
• increase of water management to 10 hectares;
• acquisition of a farm for the development of animal husbandry;
• increase of the land bank;
• harvesting wildflowers (apples, mushrooms, berries, herbs).

Work is scheduled for 2021.

• Buying a store
• Restoration of the greenhouse
• Preparation of the field for planting berry crops (field №1)
• Bookmark seedlings of vegetables, salads, greens, possibly berry crops
• Production of technical conditions for packaged salads and canning
• HACCP certification
• Preparation of the store premises for packaging and storage of products, launch of the canning shop
• Bookmark berry massif.
• Organization of collection of mushrooms for preservation (white mushroom, buttercup, grasshopper, honeysuckle, chanterelles)

Benefits:

• The presence of a large number of unemployed people
• A large number of arable lands and pastures that are not used.
• Lack of competition for the preservation of organic products.
• Absence in the western region of a producer of organic products in the segment of vegetables and greens.

Strategy

• Promotion of the brand and organic products in general

• Covering by targeted delivery of the end user loyal to organic and to the culture of support of local farming (through SOK "Farmer's family" or own forces)

• Expansion of the line of organic products through cooperation with small farms

• Sale through supermarket chains on separate stands, or on stands with the corresponding marking of an organic product

• Increasing the number of supermarket chains in which our products are presented, in particular those positioned as premium markets
• Possibility to purchase a farm to supplement the livestock product line.

Risks

• Weather conditions, natural factors
• Diseases

Additionally, in addition to the main crops, it is also offered to grow the following items : Sugar corn, Fennel, Kohlrabi, Kale, Squash, Beans, Pumpkins, Watermelons, Tomatoes