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RURAL AGROINDUSTRIAL CENTERS (RAICS)
You Can Profit From A Rural Agroindustrial Center (RAIC)
A RAIC based on Leucaena
Effect Agroforestry
can be your way to create wealth through sustainable development. A Rural Agroindustrial Center (RAIC)
combines sustainable agriculture, Leucaena
Effect Agroforestry
and rural agroindustrial development. There are as many ways
to develop RAICS as there are modules. Each sustainable
RAIC must be based on EcoSAT Design, Leucaena,
SATReal
Analysis and Leucaena
Effect Agroforestry for
creating an ecologically sound project.
If you have a large budget and money is no object, ISAI/TF will work with you on a consultancy basis to develop a full on-site feasibility study. If on the other hand, you have a budget constraint and are willing to work, we will work with you to develop an Interactive Prefeasibility where you will do the actual site work in your country and we will perform all analysis here. If you want to create a RAIC that will cost no more that $500,000, you may want to use our Interactive internet RAIC Consultancy program.
PARTICIPANTS IN A COMMERCIAL RAIC
A. Investors
Investors can gain a high return on investment.
B. Landowners
can quadruple their income by producing value-added products.
create a wealth generating business enterprise with many positives.
gain a new large marketplace for their equipment and eventually enlarge the scope of their production line.
gain a sure supply of the commodity they need by becoming a part of RAIC consortium or financing all or part of a RAIC on a buy back arrangement. For example, buyers may want to participate in a livestock feed RAIC simply to assure their livestock feed security.
A COMMUNITY CREATED RAIC CAN BE DEVELOPED TO PROVIDE JOBS, BRING URBAN DWELLERS BACK TO COMMUNITIES, AND SERVE AS FOCAL POINT FOR RURAL AGROINDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT.
Interactive internet RAIC Consultancy
How it works:
Step 1. You find out about Rural Agroindustrial Centers (RAICS) from a friend, a business associate, through our Home page, through a mailing list, from a print publication...
Step 2. You contact ISAI/TF by phone, fax, mail or email
Step 3. You find out how you can get an Interactive Prefeasibility analysis or Project Assessment for only US$20000 because you do much of the work yourself
Step 4. You send us your payment by cash in full, or $7000 down, the rest when you submit your completed questionnaire
Step 5. Upon our receipt of your payment, we send you the 60 page questionnaire which you will complete within 90 days of our sending it to you.
Step 6. You complete the needed soil test analysis and other activities required for our analysis of your project
Step 7. You send the completed questionnaire to us
Step 8. We input the data into our computer
Step 9 Our computer generated proformas and charts
Step 10. Our consultant analyses the date and writes Prefeasibility analysis
Step 11. Once the Prefeasibility is completed, we offer you three RAIC package choices:
a) a small scale, low tech $75,000 labor intensive project
b) A complete MINIRAIC package US$500,000
c) A Full scale RAIC $10,000,000 project requiring a consortium
Step 12. You select the right RAIC choice for your budget, environment and interest
Step 13. You plan your RAIC
Step 14. You get your RAIC constructed and begin producing products
Step 15. You begin exporting from your RAIC.
A RAIC with several production modules based on local farmers supplying Leucaena and agroresidues such as rice and wheat straw, sugar cane bagasse and others to make livestock feed, litter, organic fertilizer, particle board material, fuel briquettes, and multifibre paper. Will you be one of the *proactive ecoentrepreneurs* who profits from the paradigm shift to *sustainability*?
1. SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE!
2. LEUCAENA EFFECT AGROFORESTRY
3. RURAL AGROINDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
These are the
three components of sustainable rural agroindustrial
development - an ecoentrepreneurial system
that has just begun. And, you can profit from this *paradigm
shift* for rural development. You can be *proactive*, take
the risk of getting in on the ground floor of Leucaena Effect
Agroforestry right now, and reap the profits as you become a
part of a *consortium* to create a rural agroindustrial
center (RAIC).
Tropical farming communities tend to be small in population and have a wide dispersal due to large land parcels required for farming. In order to create industries from farmers’ production a central processing area is required. Here low value raw materials including AgroResidues as well as directed crops such as Leucaena, Sesbania, Crotalaria, Guar, and Leucaena can be brought in for processing. In order for this processing area to succeed in meeting the needs of your country, it will need to be centrally located in an agricultural area so that it will be economic to haul materials to it. Indeed, more than one such centrally located processing area will be required to serve all the needs of your country's farmers. A Tropical Rural Agro-Industries Center (TRAIC)™ is a large scale integrated rural development project designed for these purposes:
Leucaena Production Society along with several other groups are seeking to create a TRAIC™ in your country, which could be a consortium of farmers, entrepreneurs, researchers, state and national government agencies, In-country and international investors. The TRAIC™ will then be in a position to profitably produce agribased products from alternative crops like Leucaena , Sesbania, and Guar combined with agricultural wastes such as bagasse, rice and wheat straw, and forest wastes.
Integral to the TRAIC™ is the development of a project to produce Leucaena, Sesbania, and agroresidues and forest residues based products. Leucaena, Sesbania, oil palm hulls, coffee hulls, are exciting crops that can serve as the raw materials base in many agro-industries and can easily be grown in the tropics. The project includes the TRAIC™ and adjacent satellite/feeder farming projects.
The TRAIC™might include any combination of these components:
A Leucaena separation plant
A Fuel Briquetting plant - briquettes to be made from a composite of AgroResidues
A Building materials plant for producing a wide variety of building materials from Leucaena, bagasse and straw combined
A Multi-fibre paper plant to produce paper from a combination of Leucaena, Sesbania, agricultural and forest residues
A Low Tech Livestock Feed plant using Leucaena , Crotalaria, Sesbania, Leucaena and agricultural wastes
A Organic fertilizer plant using agricultural wastes, forest wastes, Leucaena, Sesbania and Bagasse
A Phytoremediation Project growing Vetiver, duckweed and other plants for ecological restoration
A Carbon Sequestration Plantation using Leucaena
A long term forest project involving the growing of teak, and other exotic hardwoods for marketing to local craftsmen and furniture makers
An aquaculture project for local markets and use of water for fertilizing irrigation
An agricultural tourism project
an ecotourism project
A sports adventure tourism project
LOCATION: Caribbean Island, Central America, Andean Pact country, South America
COMPONENTS OF THE TRAIC™
I. Leucaena Leafeed processing Plant
II. Fuel Briquetting Plant
III. Building Materials Plant
IV. Multifiber Paper Plant
V. Low Tech Livestock Feed Plant
Livestock Feed Crops Field Production
corn, wheat, Leucaena, buffel grass, tropical grass soybeans, permanent pasture, legumes, waste products
Livestock Feed Processing
Field harvesting system
Drying/dehydrating plant
Feed storage system
Forage handling system
VI. Organic Fertilizer Plant
VII. Worker/management system
Administration
Infrastructure
Housing
Vegetable and food production
On site cannery/solar drying
Worker training
Satellite farming training system
Learning center
Training system for workers and
family
Medical staff and dispensary
VII. Logistics
Electricity generation from Leucaena
Plantation
Biomass, methanol generation
Sorghum for ethanol production
Water, wells, septic, water supply
Communication system within project
Transport vehicles, road building,
Road maintenance
On site monorail
Computer system
Office
VIII. Machinery and maintenance
Farm equipment
Livestock equipment
Trucks and vehicles
Machinery maintenance systems
COST OF PROJECT: US 30-100 million dollars
SOURCE OF FUNDING :
International investors
In-country shareholders
JOINT VENTURE PARTNERS
Partner A
Consortium of in-country and international investors
Partner B
In-country landowner
Partner C
ISAI/TF, Inc., and associates
RESPONSIBILITIES OF JOINT VENTURE PARTNERS
Partner A
Funding of the project
Partner B
Personal possession of a minimum of 1000 hectares of land with access or control of an additional 5,000 hectares or more supply of labor, government access and interactions
Partner C
Preparation of feasibility study
Purchasing agency for project
Technical personnel procurement agency
Location and procurement of funding
Project management
Training programs and courses
SUMMARY OF PROJECT
The project will consist of a choice of four or more components, based on the results of the findings of the EcoSAT Design, and SATReal Analysis. Here are some of the components that could be included:
A Leucaena Leafeed processing plant
A Fuel Briquetting plant - briquettes to be made from a composite of AgroResidues
A Building materials plant for producing a wide variety of building materials from multifibers, bagasse and straw combined
A Multifibre paper plant to produce paper from a combination of fibre plants, Sesbania, Crotalaria and agricultural residues
A Low Tech Livestock Feed plant usingfiber plants, Crotalaria, Sesbania, Leucaena and agricultural wastes
A Organic fertilizer plant using agricultural wastes, Leucaena, Sesbania and Bagasse
A Phytoremediation Project growing Vetiver, duckweed and other plants for ecological restoration
A Carbon Sequestration Plantation using Leucaena
A long term forest project involving the growing ot teak, and other exotic hardwoods for marketing to local craftsmen and furniture makers
An aquaculture project for local markets and use of water for fertilizing irrigation
An agricultural tourism project
an ecotourism project
A sports adventure tourism project
Small business and artisan incubator with commercial kitchen for food preservation, T-shirt press and equipment, leatherworking equipment, gemstone cutting and jewelry equipment, hand made paper lab, pottery equipment, quilt making equipment, woodworking equipment, photography lab and computer center with desktop publishing and access to the Internet - space and time using machinery and labs can be rented by residents to develop small scale businesses
The TRAIC™ will create low income equity sharing housing, employment and a new sense of being a part of Leucaena Effect Agroforestry, the growth industry of the 21st century.
ISAI/TF is presently developing the TRAIC™ as a three way joint venture. The joint venture will be structured between ISAI/TF , one or more international and/or in-country investor groups, and a landowner in your country. If you are interested in participating in the development of a TRAIC™ in your country, contact:.
The TRAIC™ satellite farming project offers farmers in the tropics the opportunity to create a profitable project on a small part of their land. The TRAIC will generate employment. In addition each of the farmers can produce his own economic development project as a profit center through the development of 100+ hectare TRAIC™ satellite feeder projects that will include:
50+ hectares of Leucaena
10+ hectares market garden
10+ hectares Papaya trees
10+ hectares communal tropical fruit orchard
25+ equity Sharing houses -low income built from local materials- equity sharing no down payment in exchange for each one mentoring one of the street children
Communal housing for 100 street children
Ecotourism project
Community Center with communal cafeteria and day care center
Interested in developing a RAIC in your country? Contact Dr. Carol Cross directly at exportfacs@aol.com
Dr.
Ramon Dario Argueta