Agrolimpios

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Agrolimpios produces high-quality cattle feedstock using agricultural waste as its raw material.

Market Opportunity:

• Colombia’s economy is based on agricultural products, especially coffee, sugarcane, and bananas, which produce large amounts of waste that is often incorrectly disposed of. Colombia was the third largest coffee producer in 2008, growing a total of 688,680 mega tonnes of coffee beans.

• The coffee industry utilizes just 40% of the whole coffee grain, discarding the remaining 60% as waste. The mucilage removed from the coffee grains is particularly toxic and contaminates large waterways in Colombia.

• Agrolimpios takes the coffee and other food waste and profitably transforms it into cow feed, further boosting the economy and protecting the environment.

Unique Business Solution:

• Business Model: Agrolimpios recovers the solid remainders of the coffee and horticulture industries and transforms them into energy supplements for cattle, improving the quality of meat and milk produced.

• Competitive Advantage:

  • Agrolimpios’ success lies in its ability to transform discarded products as raw material to produce a high-quality end product.
  • Their model is highly replicable around the world, especially in countries that are dependent on agricultural products.

Environmental & Social Impact:

• The company considerably decreases water contamination caused by the inappropriate disposal of agricultural waste.

• Agrolimpios reduces of GHG emissions from waste pools.

Future Plans & Challenges:

• Agrolimpios hopes to increase its capacity pending investment.

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Updated: August 2011