FOOD HUB MANAGEMENT
Food hubs are a crucial, but often invisible, part of the local food system. They help small farms grow by offering a combination of production, distribution, and marketing services. Some food hubs are physical spaces, some virtual online spaces, but all are concerned with connecting the dots between producers and consumers of food in local and regional food systems. Food hubs can be thought of as helpful middlemen that connect producers (farmers and ranchers) with institutional buyers (restaurants, hospitals, schools, etc) and end consumers. They help farmers gain access to larger markets so they can focus more on farming and less on marketing, distribution, etc.
A food hub is a "business or organization that actively manages the aggregation, distribution, and marketing of course-identified food products primarily from local and regional producers to strengthen their ability to satisfy wholesale, retail, and institutional demand."
- SKAFS is a competitive Engineering , Agriculture and Environment
consulting firm that helps its clients successfully execute technically
demanding infrastructure projects on national basis since 2000.
- SKAFS is committed to providing quality products and work within ISO
9001-2008 Quality Management, ISO 14001 Environmental
Management, and ISO 18001 Health, Safety & Environment Solutions.
- SKAFS assists clients with planning and implementing vision of the
future. It contribute to a better and safe life in sustainable environment
have extensive experience in various sectors such as urban planning, &
recreational planning, green infrastructure, public engagement,
Procurement funding, Green house gases, carbon emissions etc.
Food Crops | Wheat, Rice Jowar, Maize and Barley |
Cash Crops | Sugarcane, Cotton, Tobacco, Jute, sugar beat & Guarseed |
Pulse & other Rabi Pulses | Gram, Mong , Masoor, Mash, Matar and other rabi, kharif Pulses. |
Edible Oilseed | R&M seed. Seasmum, Groundnut, Soyabean, Sunflower, Sea Flower. |
Source: Agriculture Statistics of Pakistan (2015-16) |
Source: Agriculture Statistics of Pakistan (2015-16)
Source: Agriculture Statistics of Pakistan (2015-16)
During the past Decade, Agriculture area has decreased 22.5 Million hectors and population increased 773 Million globally.
Source: Agriculture Statistics of Pakistan (2015-16)
Commodities |
Export (Million - USD) |
Fruited & Vegetable | 697 |
Spices | 12 |
Pulses | 176000 |
Rice | 1682 |
Total | 2392 |
Source: http://www.amis.pk/Import |
- Product receiving by category, and handle by shelf life and temperature requirement.
- Service center support farmer to have direct business with market.
- Platform will centralize the resource, reducing the investment by individual company.
Feasibility Study |
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Examine the viability of the business concept | Competitive landscape |
Company mission or objective | Operation issues |
Technology | Management team |
Macro environment | Financial information |
Market information | Business risk |
Due Diligence Process |
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Primary Research: your interviews. Survey | |
Secondary research done by others | |
Analog: SEC filing, business case studies | |
Analyze: how is this data relevant | |
Synthesize: use data to answer question and refine | |
Model: rough financials/P&L |
Production/Harvest | Aggregation - FH1 | Farmers Market |
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Technical Assistance | Facility | Technical Assistance (Marketing) |
Training (Beginning farmer, certifications, practices, etc) | Technical Assistance | Equipment (pos, display, canopy) |
Services (operation plan/mgt, accounting, legal, other) | Training (processes, equipment, certifcations) | Labor |
Equipment (field, office) | Services (operation plan/mgt, accounting, legal, other) | |
Labor | Equipment (wash/pack) | |
Misc | Packaging (baskets, etc) | |
Dry/Cold Storage | ||
Labor |
Distribution | Processing(VA)-FH2 | Retailer, Restaurant, Food Service |
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Logistics plan/mgt | Facility | Facility |
Vehicles | Technical Assistance | Technical Assistance |
Drivers | Training (processes, equipment, certifications) | Training (processes, equipment, certifications) |
Vehicle service | Services (operation plan/mgt, accounting, legal, other) | Services (operation plan/mgt, accounting, legal, mktg) |
Permits | Equipment (wash/chop/freeze/pack) | Equipment |
Packaging (containers, wrap, etc) | Repackaging | |
Dry/Cold Storage | Dry/Cold Storage | |
Labor | Labor |
Mobile Market | ||
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Vehicle and service | ||
Technical Assistance | ||
Equipment(pos, display, canopy) | ||
Labor |