ECO food dehydrators

both of  the imposed lock-down due to corona virus and high transport cost block farmers from getting food to markets  that leads to increase crops waste, harm environment, and forms great loss for their income and natural resources, while social norms prevent rural women from working outside their homes ,despite food dehydrators can form solution, its industry is absent in Arab countries, ECO is the only Arab food dehydrators provider to enable farmers turning crops surplus that usually goes to waste into powdered fruit drinks and powdered tomato sauce, in shortest amount of time, lowest operation cost, and highest quality, while extending crops shelf life for several months with no cold storage, reducing crops bulk by up to 20 times for cheaper transport, forming in house sustainable income for rural women, helps families to reduce food expenses, preserving environment and natural resources, it granted a patent and 8 awards

African countries produce more than enough food to feed their growing population, despite that they suffer of poverty, hunger and form a net of food importers, , while scarce natural resources, climate change, and urbanization  limits cultivating more lands, so worlds farmers soon have to produce more and more food from less and less land and natural resources, , Egypt the 5th worlds tomato producer imports both of fresh and processed tomato while up to 4 million ton of its tomato produce go to waste (88 million M 3 of methane gas emission),it imports 60% of its food needs ,while up to 30% of its crops goes to waste, needy, while the imposed lock down due to corona virus disturbed food supply chin, many informal markets where millions buy their food are shut, many of food processors who handle the vast majority of agricultural products became no more able to process farm products, that dramatically increase food loss, thus in house sustainable food processing tools that can meet with existing lock-down conditions  can reduce post-harvest loss and increase food security with no additional stress on scarce natural resources, while preserving  environment , and creating millions of jobs in food processing

fruits and vegetables contain up to 95% water , that increases bulkiness, weight , vulnerability to mold growth , transport cost and reduce shelf life, , ECO reduces  moisture content to below 6%  (safe level for storage) by evaporation , ECO is not traditional or conventional food dehydrator,  it’s an innovative, patented , whole system for food processing  and storage , can serve mainly by renewable energy and minimum conventional source of  energy, it enables small holder farmers (up to 10 million , 95% of Egyptian farmers ) , to turn crops surplus that usually goes to waste , into dehydrated sliced / powdered fruit drinks and powdered tomato sauce in just 6 hours (instead of 15-24 hours) that reduces time and operation costs by 3 times, and enables farmers to triple the amount of dehydrated crops in certain amount of time comparing with comparable food dehydrators, while reducing crops bulk and weight by up to 20 times thus reduce transport cost to enable access to high value distant urban and export markets, and increasing crops shelf life for several months with no need for cold storage to be consumed by rural families or sold at high price off season

ECO increases farmers income by  turning crops waste into business opportunity and enabling them access high value distant urban and export markets to gain 20 times increase in revenue, while contributing in increasing food availability in urban markets to alleviate fresh food shortage/high prices    

-ECO increases shelf life of fruits and vegetables for several months with no need for cold storage for later consumption by farmers’ families themselves, or sells in high price off season

- ECO can form in house sustainable income creation opportunity for unemployed and rural women that meet with their social norms to empower them socially and liberate them economically

- ECO helps families to increase food security, reduce food expenses, bridge the gap of nutrients supply around the year, and prepare healthy food for their children by dehydrating fruits and vegetables in low price harvest season to be consumed in high price off season 

ECO processes  perishable crops into high value, top quality, nutrient food in  just  6 hours , it increases efficiency of farm inputs by minimizing  the amount that go to produce food that no one consumes , it reduces greenhouse gases emission ( ECO small commercial model can dehydrate up to 40 ton of tomato/year  that otherwise would go to waste , 40 x22m3/methane emission/ton=880 m3 reduction /year/one unit) , it reduces transport cost (fuel needed ), it can quickly process unmarketable amounts of fruits and vegetables due to lockdown condition or high transport cost to avoid food/farmers income waste 

ECO provides an unique, whole patented system for food preservation and storage, mainly serves by renewable energy , it granted a patent from Egypt academy for scientific research and technology, the second one is in process, it specifically tailored to serve efficiently and economically in local conditions of developing countries at home and or farm level by both of electric and renewable energy  , ECO  team after long years of experiments managed to reduce the needed time for processing fruits and vegetables from up to 24 hour to only about 6 hours thus reduce operation costs and increasing farmers profits by up to 3 times, while enabling farmers to triple the amount of fruits and vegetables that can be dehydrated in a certain amount of time comparing with other comparable food dehydrators ECO products equipped with many of new, innovative , patented  technical advantages that  enable it to compete aggressively  in both of blue and red ocean markets , till now ECO didn't recognize direct competition in Arab countries market, while it recognized only one south African provider , only 15 key players worldwide who provide comparable products, indirect competition comes from unreliable, weather dependent traditional sun drying method that unlike ECO food can be contaminated by dust , rain, insects, and loss many of its natural color, vitamins and enzymes, its labor intensive, the dried food is of low quality/price, of short shelf life, not pure, and  may need additional processing steps for sterilization before be ready to sell       

ECO consist of a system of 5 components, to pre- drying fruits and vegetables by renewable energy  before entering  electric dehydrators, thus it reduces time and operation costs , and increases dehydrator capacity ,some components are for exhaust heat recycling, and other components are for crops storage, ECO forms a mix of next generation of food dehydrators, and modified traditional methods for crops preservation and storage , its innovative design solves many of existing problems in food dehydrators industry, adds new technical advantages mainly to ease dehydration process, and reduce operation time and needed power , all ECO components are transportable, and portable can serve at home or farmer level based on user condition and needs 

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-ECO is the winner of UNDP/IDEASS/EBN international award on human development innovations and honored in the Royal academy of sciences Brussels www.ideassonline.org/pic/doc/GreenEnergyEgypt.pdfinnovations - Shortlisted twice as national winner ENERGY GLOBE award Austria youtu.be/qjC3TrTr5RA www.energyglobe.info/awards/details/awdid/4765/ -ECO is the winner of Tony Entrepreneurship program Nigeria, and invitation to visit Nigeria www.tonyelumelufoundation.org/uploads/2018/03/TEF_1000_NAMES_2018.pdf -ECO is the winner of GESR Innovating for a cause program - ECO is the winner of EU funded Switch Med program , it honored by Egyptian minister of industry ,it  invited to represent Egypt in Switch Med connect conference and innovation fair Barcelona Spain November 2018, the program also sent Spanish filming team to prepare a film about ECO products to be showcased in Spain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egdv_zVuENc -

https://www.theswitchers.eu/en/switchers/food-security-through-dehydrators-a-revised-ancient-food-preservation-technique/

ECO is the winner of GREEN APPLE awards UK, -ECO received invitation for UN environment program to present its innovation in Switch Africa green conference Nairobi November 2019

ECO has just shortlisted finalist  ASME/ISHOW and UNOPS  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFuJaC4USpA

ECO can transform life’s of both of rural and urban areas, by improving rural income it enables them to pay more for children schooling and health care, reducing harvest loss contributes in increasing food security, reduces malnutrition , and children mortality specifically under 5 years, reducing transport cost enables farmers to access urban markets to increase food availability and reduce its price to meet purchasing power of low income families, creating sustainable income for rural women that meet with their social norms empowers them socially and liberates them economically to be active members in their communities, and to have share in decision making , reducing greenhouse emission by utilizing sustainable power sources contributes to environmental health , while increasing efficiency of farm inputs conserves huge amounts of natural resources as water , land , fertilizers and energy that go to produce food that no one consumes, ECO enables families and farmers to process fruits and vegetables at home level  that helps them to reduce food expenses, secure more healthy , nutrient food for their children, utilize lockdown time to quickly process unmarketable amounts of fruits and vegetables before rot can be occurred to increase their income, bargaining position and food security, while extending crops shelf life for later consumption , sell or export ,providing high quality , lower cost dehydrated fruits and vegetables as an alternative to imported food , increasing food trade between African countries to fill food market gab in each other’s around the year,       

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ECO has a plan to reduce upfront cost of its products by  establishing  a sister company for food dehydration, that will enable it to accept % of its products price (profit margin) as in kind payment to be dehydrated via its sister company and sold with additional profit margin, the sister company is also to dehydrate fruits and vegetables for farmers who don’t afford its products, 25% of the fee is to be saved via ECO on account of each farmer(or group of farmers ) just  farmer’s account achieve 75% of dehydrator , it’s to be notified to pay the rest to get a dehydrator to avoid closing the account, ECO also target to penetrate both of other Arab and African markets to fill the huge need and wide market gab of food dehydrators , it prepared a ready development program to enable it to launch new , low cost ,attractive , innovative models of its products  

• ECO has 3 ready to sell models , it has a lengthy waiting list and export opportunities , the absence of direct competition enables ECO to adopt value based pricing strategy , However ECO products equipped with many of innovative aspects while it does not having enough financial resources to achieve mass production, manufacturing and launching its products one by one can ease access to ECO know haw , to encourage new entrants from potential strong competitors who can make use of their complementary assets (larger financial, capabilities,-- ) and ECO financial weakness to manufacture comparable products in lower price to enjoy first mover advantages while putting ECO in defense position

By patenting innovative aspects in ECO products, participating in national and international competitions, networking, meeting investors, 

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5 persons, 2 full time, 3 part time,

ECO based on a team of professionals , ECO team leader has up to 20 years experience in food dehydration, it granted a Diploma in entrepreneurship from EU/UNIDO Switch Med program, and a patent from Egypt academy for scientific research and technology , the unique experience in food dehydration enables ECO team to provide perfect customer service to guide customers through dehydration process to insure high quality , low cost dehydrated produce in shortest operation time , ECO team of experts  is the only that enables farmers for the first time turning unmarketable amounts of perishable fruits and vegetables into  a variety of (50,000 $/ton ) powdered , sliced , leather  and other creative forms of  high value dehydrated fruits and vegetables  IN JUST 6 HOURS in which we consider a great achievement that can transform life and the socioeconomic conditions  of millions of farmers and considerably contribute in solving the issues of poverty , hunger and harvest loss, ECO team has the needed experience to enable farmers        

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ECO generates revenue by manufacturing, selling and maintaining 3 innovative models of food dehydrators that can serve on family, small and medium commercial scale,(the 4th large commercial scale model is in process )  to increase their income and food security, while creating  jobs and in house income for rural women , it targets to make partnership with business partners from inside targeted communities to assume responsibility of advertising , and selling its products utilizing social nature in rural communities, it established a Facebook page to be in close contact with its customers, and it follows both of outsourcing and value based pricing strategies  

financial support , networking, partnership, media cover 

ECO has many orders for export to many of African and Arab countries and seek the appropriate tools ,partnership , media cover , financial support to achieve commercial scale and and marketing channels 

ECO achieved great achievements in food processing that can considerably contribute in transforming life of  small holder farmers in developing countries and it would like to send a call for partnership to international organizations as FAO , IFAD, UNIDO, world food program to speed and ease access to farmers of developing countries 

ECO can form in house sustainable income, create jobs for local labor, empower women,help families to increase food security --

ECO can considerably contributes in improving women socioeconomic conditions, it can contribute to empower them socially and liberate them economically by creating in house sustainable income that meet with their social norms that prevent them from working outside their homes and villages, it can help housewives to secure more nutrient food for their family members, reduce food expenses, and bridging the gab of nutrient supply around the year   

ECO can considerably transform life of needy , small holder farmers, rural women and families, it can offer appropriate solutions to poverty , hunger, gender inequality,and  unemployed in developing countries