Jacob Svenningsen's Contact Details

Jacob Svenningsen's Company Details

eGro

N/A, N/A, DK • 5 - 9 Employees
Agriculture

Executive summary eGro is a climate startup. We are pre-revenue early stage climate startup still bootstrapping towards our first product sales and proof of business. We focus on operations in production, processing and trading of climate resilient products from agri-forestry production for both foods and non-edibles industry. With a 1-acre model, we contract with farmers in rural emerging markets to produce according to our methods. We use sustainable climate resilient production methods. We help facilitate specialty seeds, and tree seedlings to amend the soils, and we bring materials for their production and secure post harvest of their crops. We export and market the products to the high-end consćious consumers in the western markets. eGro uses a production method that will replace conventional agriculture. We secure a sustainable supply chain for the ingredients industry with our permanent agriculture methods. We produce and trade raw material for food and health ingredients industry.eGro designs ecosystems with farmers in remote and dry areas of developing countries. We are using an ecosystem design method that resembles how a forest is working, we maximize it for production. With our eGro model we aim to secure a reliable supply chain for global food industry. Pilot project in Ghana:Initially we have produced peanuts as a raw material to be processed in Europe for snacks as beer nuts, or unsalted han roasted for salads. Currently we are operational in Northern Ghana with 112 farmers on 140 acres of land, we are growing by and average of 250% per year since our pilot in 2016. We have planted trees of mango, cashew, yellow lemon for diversifying our raw material in the long term.