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African GREEN Developments (Pty) Ltd. presents AGD Sustainable Farm, Healthcare & Skills Development Center Midrand , South Africa. January, 2014. Confidential. AGD Sustainable Farm, Healthcare & Skills Development Center. Commercial-scale organic food & feed production
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African GREEN Developments (Pty) Ltd. presentsAGD Sustainable Farm, Healthcare & Skills Development CenterMidrand, South Africa • January, 2014 Confidential
AGD Sustainable Farm, Healthcare &Skills Development Center • Commercial-scale organic food & feed production • 12.6 hectares of climate-controlled, greenhouse growth area • Over 15,000 tons/yr food & animal feed production • Over $40 million in revenues/yr • Employing180 managers, skilled & unskilled workers • Education/Skills development • Offering free of charge, hands-on education/skill development to 150 students per session • 16 full-time instructors/staff serving 600 students/yr • Fully furnished, on-campus living accommodations • Located on 15 hectares of abandon farmland in Midrand, South Africa, we’ve developed the world’s first, zero-carbon footprint, food production/skills development/healthcare center: • Healthcare treatment center (agreement currently under negotiation) • 12 full-time health care personnel & videoconferencing facilities to serve over 100 patients/day • Providing a wide array of healthcare services free of charge • Powered by 100% renewable energy • On-site Solar PV & Waste-to-Energy power generation • Nearly 4.5 MW of power • Offset equivalent of 860k tons/yr of CO2, with market value of nearly $130 million • Collecting/avoiding use of 1.3 million cubic meters of freshwater/yr Confidential
Our 15 hectare zero-waste, working farm combines some of today’s most advanced organic food production technologies inside an array of climate-controlled greenhouses using low-cost LED for 24/7 growing. AGD Sustainable Farm Confidential
AGD Sustainable Farm Preliminary Design Algae Ponds (~2.7 hectares) Rainwater Storage Tanks Algae/ Aquaponic Nursery Algae Harvesting & Processing Food Processing Algae to Fish Shrimp Ponds (~0.6 hectares) Fish Tanks (~2 hectares) Water Treatment Water Treatment Rainwater Storage Tanks Hydroponic Vegetables (~9.3 hectares) Hydroponic Fruits & Herbs (~0.8 hectares) Nutrient Water Fish wastewater Shrimp wastewater Nutrient Water Confidential
AGD Healthcare & Skills Development Center Preliminary Design Nursery for hydroponic plant propagation, shrimp &fish hatchery Laboratory space and area for practical training of students Biodigester units Biogas Gas Turbine-Genset Education Center/ Dorm Rooms CO2 to Algae Ponds Visitors Center, Shop, Restaurant, kids playground Healthcare center Parking area Confidential
Fresh Vegetables/Fruits/Herbs Production: 9,200 tons/yr Lettuce Spinach Tomatoes Green/Red/Yellow Peppers Zucchini/Baby Marrow/Brussel sprouts Strawberries Raspberries Blueberries Edible Sprouts Herbs Sales revenues: $33.2 million/yr Seafood Production: 435 tons/yr Nile Tilapia Red Tilapia Shrimp/Prawns Sales revenues: $ 2.8 million/yr AGD Sustainable Farm Confidential
Livestock/Fish Feed Production: 5,800 tons/yr Barley Fodder Algae Feedcakes Sales revenues: $ 2.2 million/yr Algae-derived Nutritional Supplements & Oils Production: 200 tons/yr Spirulina Chlorella High-Omega3 Low-Omega3 Sales revenues: $ 2.8 million/yr AGD Sustainable Farm Confidential
Additional benefits: Maximum Productivity Produces 5X the food volume per square meter of the world’s most fertile soil Minimal Water Footprint Rainwater harvesting (50,000 cubic meter/yr) provides freshwater for all our growing operations Jobs & Skill Development Offering over 180 good paying full-time employment opportunities (20 managers & 160 workers), plus hands-on training for another 600 per year from our Skills Development Center Fully Scalable Our system requires no arable land & can be built across Africa Environment Offsets 1,650 tons/yr of CO2 & 40,000 tons/yr of Methane, with a market value of $130 million Provides over 4 billion calories/year from food & 3.5 billion calories/year from animal feed for assisting food-aid organizations AGD Sustainable Farm Confidential
Our AGD Institute will be providing classes of 150 students with a free of charge, 3-month, hands-on skills development program Low student-to-instructor ratio (10 students per instructor) Focus will be on bringing students up to speed on everything it takes to run & manage an integrated zero-waste farming system Aquaponic systems Algae cultivation & processing Renewable energy technologies Adapting commercial-scale farming techniques & technologies to smaller-scale farms Carbon offset programs Healthcare training program Business development training AGD Education/Skills Development Center Confidential
Offering the local community & neighboring townships 20-25 healthcare treatment rooms Staffed by 12 professionally trained personnel Providing 30,000+ treatments/yr Healthcare skills development program as part of AGD’s Education Center AGD Healthcare Center(agreement currently under negotiation) Confidential
AGD Healthcare Center • All Healthcare services & training provided free of charge through an innovative “Healthcare offset” funding mechanism, provided by Linkedcare & SonoPay. LinkSono aggregates all doctors with same practice and creates Practice Calendars where remote consultations or competence transfer can be booked 1 ... ... General Practitioner Ophthalmologist Cardiologist Doctors make their time available for linkSono Local Doctors, Nurses or other medical support book consultations according to their need • 3G networks and smartphones available in all of Africa (600m phones) • Doctors and patients can use LinkSono in Africa to bridge the gap • Doctors in Europe or US make time available free-of-charge to assist doctors and patients in Africa • OpenSono promote MobileEducation apps for smartphones in Africa (c) Sonopay LLC & OpenSparkz LP 2013 Confidential - Draft - Not for distribution
Daily Visitors Providing 100+ adults & children with education enrichment on our operations, partner opportunities & living a sustainable way of life. Staffed by AGD Skills Development Center students & community volunteers Because the AGD Sustainable Farm is an ideal forum for illustrating real life science concepts, we have developed educational materials and make our systems available to schools, zoos, museums and other public venues. Some of these concepts include: the nitrogen cycle, the role of bacteria in ecology, water ecology, living systems, life cycles, the science of food production, and hydrodynamics AGD Visitors Center Confidential
Utilize our waste products in our Advanced Waste-to-Energy system (4.5 MW) Entire power generation system can be funded by CO2 & Methane remediation offset credits Powered by 100% renewable energy Confidential
Neotel (agreement pending) Sunil Joshi, Managing Director & CEO OpenSono/SonoPay/LinkSono Declan Conway, Founder & Chairman Linkedcare Hans-Erhard Reiter, Founder & CEO Texas Agrilife Research Center/Mariculture Program, TAMU (agreement pending) Dr. Addison Lawrence , Senior Faculty Fellow Royal HaskoningsDHV Erik Tshwele Simon Lechtman Terra Endeavors Charles Abramson, Founder & CEO African Green DevelopmentsStrategic and Potential Partners Confidential
Leon-Valerie Eremin Chairman & CEO Charles Abramson, PhD President Pieter C Naudé Director , Finances / Finzone Blanche Mogorosi Director, Renewable Energy Diomede Nkurunziza Director, Community Relations BellinaEremina Director, Admin and HR Lilian Mello Chief Legal Council African Green DevelopmentsSenior Management Team Confidential
Algae Cultivation For high-value fish/livestock feed, nutrition supplements, oil rich in Omega3 & pigments AGD Sustainable Farm Confidential
Shrimp Cultivation Utilizing ‘Super-Intensive Shrimp Raceway Farming’ method 15-20 times the productivity per square meter of intensive shrimp farming AGD Sustainable Farm Confidential
Aquaponics Combines Aquaculture with Hydroponics inside a series of climate-controlled, LED lit, multi-span greenhouses Produces 5X the vegetables/fruits/herbs than conventional farming with 5% of the water Instead of having to rely on chemical nutrients for a hydroponic system, fish waste is biologically converted into nutrients the plants/fruits/herbs need to grow AGD Sustainable Farm Confidential
AGD Sustainable Farm, Healthcare & Skills Development Center Confidential
AGD Sustainable Farm, Healthcare & Skills Development Center Confidential
AGD Sustainable Farm, Healthcare & Skills Development Center Confidential
AGD Sustainable Farm Confidential
Sustainable Farm Operations Total Revenues $41.0 million/yr Cost of Goods Sold $22.2 million/yr Gross Profit $18.8 million/yr Net Profit $11.5 million/yr AGD Sustainable Farm, Healthcare& Skills Development Center Confidential
AGD Sustainable Farm, Healthcare& Skills Development Center After initial investment, our activities are primarily internally funded (over $40 million) Confidential
AGD Sustainable Farm Confidential
AGD Sustainable Farm, Healthcare& Skills Development Center Confidential
AGD Sustainable Farm COMMERCIAL SALES Confidential
AGD Sustainable Farm PROJECT’S TOTAL OFFSET FUNDING POTENTIAL Confidential