Can Qatar Start a New Industry of leafy-Vegetables Farming to Reach to Its Self-Sufficiency?

Can Qatar Start a New Industry of

Leafy-Vegetables Farming to Reach to Its
Self-sufficiency?

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August 22, 2014
Contact Dr. Allen Lang, Peter Teng
SpeedyGreen, Inc.
Telephone+86-186-5526-9911
emailpteng88@gmail.com
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Qatar is an Arabian country, located at Qatar peninsula on the southwest side of Persian Gulf,
neighboring Saudi Arabia and UAE.

Qatar weathers in hot tropical-zone dessert, with sandy land, high temperature in summer and
is with very limited rainfall (average precipitation of 125mm only). Qatar is not suitable for producing
vegetables on its land. Although there are a few local farms which can produce some vegetables in
the winter time inside greenhouses, but the volume produced are only 3% of the total vegetables
consumption, far from meeting the needs of the 2 million residents in Qatar. Therefore, Qatar relies
on foreign imports for 97% of its vegetables demands. Most of them are air-shipped from far-away
countries.

According to the report of Qatars Consumer Protection Division of Commerce Department, the
Central Wholesale Market of Qatar, in the month of June, 2013, imported 19,767 tons of vegetables.
Due to the heavy dependency on foreign imports and high cost of air-cargo shipping, shortage of
supply is frequently fluctuating local vegetables prices. Qatars residents are suffering not only with
the high vegetable prices, also with lacking of freshness of the vegetables available.

With Qatars richness in wealth, and its anxiousness of finding solution of providing fresh
vegetables to its local consumers, there is a genuine need of mass-production vegetable factories
with modern technology to overcome its natural deficiency of producing vegetables.
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Can Qatar start a new industry to produce leafy-vegetables to supply to its own local market? If
succeeded, it would mean that Qatar can cut its foreign imports of leafy-vegetables of 48,000 tons a
year, or 240 million USD a year. In additions, residents in Qatar will enjoy fresh leafy-vegetables on
their local market.

We mentioned before that Qatar is very rich in natural gas resources and provides very
low-cost electricity. So, what Qatar really needs, is mass-production-type and efficiently-designed
Hydroponic Vertical Farming Factories of leafy-vegetables. With Qatars advantages in low-cost
electricity, such factories can mass-produce leafy-vegetables with low-cost. Vegetables produced
can be sold to the local market replacing the imported and non-fresh leafy-vegetables. A new and
environmentally-friendly leafy-vegetables farming industry can be started in Qatar.

What is the mass-production-type and efficiently-designed Hydroponic Vertical Farming Factory
of leaf-vegetables?

Following graph shows a well-designed hydroponic vertical farming factory
of leafy-vegetables, when its demanding requirements are met, can turn
vegetables Seeds into Gold.

A magic to turn seeds into gold

Hydroponic Vertical Farming, in recent years, causes a lot of confusions for investors in this
field. Due to that multiple technologies are involved with high complexity in its design, many
hydroponic vertical farming factories with different approaches are introduced and experimented.
Some are very good for demonstration of this technology, but not practically-designed to meet
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mass-production requirements. Some can handle mass-production of vegetables, but fail to make
profitability on its operation. To perform the magic we mentioned, we need a properly-designed
hydroponic vertical farming factory that make sense and is efficient enough to generate profitability.

Author-designed hydroponic vertical farming factory of leafy-vegetables, we believed its
operation can be profitable when it is built and operated in Qatar.

Why author-designed factory is well-designed and its operation potentially is profitable, and
other hydroponic factory failed to generate profitability? Let us analyze the requirements of the
hydroponic farming factory that can generate profitability in Qatar (for easy of explanation, let us use
lettuce production as the production type):

1. It has to perform mass-production of leafy-vegetables: author-designed 1530 factory,
can produce at least 1 million heads of lettuce a year. Without this kind of mass-production
capability, reaching Qatars self-sufficiency seems impossible. A same-size factory that
can produce less than 10% of this quantity of vegetables will not be cost-effective to
generate profitability as well as meeting the markets demand on vegetables quantity.
2. Its source of energy required has to be what Qatar can offer: Since Qatar can provide
low-cost electricity, this factory should be designed to only draw on electricity, not on other
resources which Qatar cannot provide. A factory that demands large amount of fresh water,
land and high-skilled labor which Qatar cannot offer is not qualified. Author-designed
factory relies heavily on the drawing of large amount of electricity but demands very little on
other sources. This is quite matched with Qatars reality.
3. It should utilize Hydroponic Vertical Farming: Vertical Farming saves land-usage and
makes control of the environment easier and more cost-effective. Profitability of the
factorys operation relies on these savings. Author-designed 1530 factory provides
3-layer-structure on its working space, forming the storage of total of 273 seedbeds (4.3M
X 1.72M) with accumulated growing space area over 2100 . This type of Hydroponic
Vertical Farming factory is what Qatar really needs.
4. It should be designed with Automated-Moving- Seedbeds- System: once we go with
Vertical Farming, the multi-layer vegetables growing space structure prohibited
human-handling of any production processes. We need an automated system to transfer
the growing units (seedbeds) to a working space area for handling and processing.
Author-designed factory is designed with such an automated system with streamline-style
production line operation.
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5. It should utilize Multi-Stage-Transplanting-Method: traditional land-growing-method
designates a fixed fully-grown-vegetable-size area for growing vegetable from seed to
harvestable-stage. While Multi-Stage-Transplanting-Method designates different areas to
grow sprouts arranged in different density to optimize the usage of growing area. And
transplanting of sprouts from high density area to lower density area is performed at end of
each growing stage cycle. Mathematic calculation proves that this method can grow 2.5
times more vegetables than the traditional method. However, due to the large of
transplanting action of sprouts from stage to stage is needed, this method can only be
easily implemented on Vertical Farming Factory with Automated-Moving- Seedbeds-
System. Instead of performing transplanting during each end of stage time, Vertical
Farming Factory with automated moving seedbed system averages out all the
transplanting work on a daily processing basis. With Vertical Farmings increasing
production quantity efficiency by the number of layers in the vertical structure, and the
Multi-Stage-Transplanting-Method increasing production quantity efficiency by 250%, the
total combined production quantity efficiency can reach 6-10 times verses the traditional
growing method on a non-vertical farming way. That is why author-designed 1530
factory can produce more than 1 million heads of lettuces a year.
6. It should utilize industrial streamline-style production: The traditional agriculture-style
production is a style that farm workers roaming around the whole growing space area
performing production-related work. This is wasteful as well as non-effective. The industrial
streamline-style utilizes production line setup for workers to stay at the side of it and
perform the necessary handling and processing. Therefore, author-designed hydroponic
vertical farming factory of leafy-vegetables is designed with separated growing space and
working space. Plus the Automated-Moving- Seedbeds- System is designed to allow farm
works to stay on the side of the production line in the working space and the robotic
vehicles are used to transfer the need-to-be-processed seedbeds to the production line.
This set-up increases the production efficiency and cuts down the wastes in labor and cost
as well.
7. It should be installed inside a sealed industrial workshop building: glass greenhouse is not
well-insulated which increases the cooling cost in the case of Qatars hot summer
temperature. Also, glass greenhouse costs more to build than the simple industrial
workshop building. All of these contribute to saving of costs, therefore, increasing of
profitability. Author-designed factory utilizes industrial workshop building, not glass
greenhouses for saving costs as well as the total controllability of vegetables growing
environment.
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8. It should utilize automated recycling-irrigation system: water-saving is important in place
like Qatar. Author-designed factory is installed with such a computer-controlled recycling
irrigation system. A hydroponic NFT method is used.
9. It should utilize automated LED illumination system: Qatar can provide low-cost electricity
and this will not be a major expense for our factorys operation. Author-designed factory is
installed with such a computer-controlled LED illumination system.
10. It has to generate profitability on its operation in Qatar: For any hydroponic factory that
requires governmental subsides to operate is not qualified to help Qatar reaching its
self-sufficiency of leafy-vegetables production. Author-designed factory built and operated
in Qatar can produce annual ROI of more than 40%. The Profit & Lose Statement is
provided at the latter part of this article.

So, Qatar has a unique opportunity: to build and operate our highly-efficient and
mass-production-type factories in Bahrain, enjoying the low cost of electricity, and produce large
quantity of fresh leafy-vegetables to its local market.

Analysis of Qatars capability to meet the profitability requirements on
building and operating an author-designed hydroponic vertical farming
factory of leafy-vegetables:

First, we analyze on the cost of electricity. Hydroponic Vertical Framing Factory of
leafy-vegetables requires large consumption of electricity. For author-designed 1530 factory, it
consumes 1.25 million KWH for LED illumination a year, and 0.75 million KWH for building heating
or cooling cost for maintaining consistent temperature of 25-30C year-round. Total consumption of
electricity can reach 2 million KWH a year when heating/cooling of the workshop space is needed.

For comparison, we look at different places on the world for their cost of electricity (assumed that all
LED illumination & heating is all done by electricity), and the total cost of electricity of our factory
operating there:

Cost of Electricity Electricity Cost Operating Our Factory
Qatar $0.014/KWH $28,000/per year(cooling required)
Bahrain $0.028/KWH $56,000/per year(cooling required)
Iceland $0.040/KWH $50,000/per year(no heating/cooling)
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China $0.100/KWH $200,000/per year(cooling required)
USA $0.075/KWH $150,000/per year(cooling required)
Japan $0.230/KWH $460,000/per year(cooling required)
Nordic Europe
continent Countries
$0.400/KWH $500,000/per year(no heating/cooling)

From the above chart we found that, Qatars electricity cost is the lowest among world countries.
The low-cost of electricity in Qatar drives the total cost of the operation of our factory down. The total
cost of electricity of operating our factory is only $56,000 a year.

If the cost of total consumption of electricity is low, then the profitability of the author-designed
factory depends on the Income side of the balance sheet, i.e., the wholesale price of the vegetables
produced. The wholesale price is used to calculate the total income of its operation, and it, in terms,
depends on the retail-price of the vegetables on local market.

Following chart shows the market retail-price of one head of 200g lettuce from different locations on
the globe (information from website NUMBEO.COM under Cost of Living Lettuce per Head):
For one head of lettuce (200g) Market Retail-Price
China $0.75
Qatar $1.60 $1.80
Bahrain $1.70 - $1.90
USA $1.00 - $2.00
Japan $1.80 - $2.80
Nordic Europe Continent Countries $2.10 - $2.80
Iceland $2.90 $3.10

Author-designed hydroponic leafy-vegetable factory can produce high profitability for local
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farmers in Qatar because its local market prices of vegetables are very high. Our standard 1530
factory can produce roughly 1 million heads of lettuce per year (200g Lettuce production is used as
example). With wholesale price of $1.1 per head, or $5.5 per Kg, it can generate $1.1 million USD
income a year. Minus all expenses (including depreciation), the ROI is 40%-50% a year on the total
investment of 1.55 Million USD. (We will show, in the end of this article, the Profit & Lose Statement
of the author-designed factory, built and operated in Qatar).

Qatar has a population of only 2 million. If we take a look at the nearby island country of Bahrain,
we will find that it has a very similar situation as that in Qatar. Bahrain cannot produce enough
land-grown vegetables for its 1 million residents and also relies heavy on imports of vegetables from
other countries. The market prices of vegetables are also very high. Therefore, the combined
vegetables-consuming population is 3 million when we include Bahrain. When we calculate the
Profit & Lost Statement, we use a wholesale price of $1.1 per head of lettuce. This price is a
reasonable wholesale price so that we can export vegetables produced to Bahrain and the final
retail-price is still be competitive there.

So, this provides Qatar with a unique opportunity: we can build and operate our factories in
Qatar, enjoying the low cost of electricity, and produce large quantity of fresh leafy-vegetables to its
local market as well as export to Bahrain. Will our vegetables produced be still fresh after shipping
from Qatar to Bahrain by ocean-freight? The answer is Yes due to that hydroponically-produced
vegetables are harvested with roots not cut. Vegetables are still alive after harvesting. With proper
packaging, their freshness can be maintained with 3-5 days of shipping on the ocean and on the
continent land.

We now look at some possible scenarios in Qatar and each with the statistics it may generate:

If 240 of our factories are built and operated within 5 years in Qatar, following will be the
statistics it may generate by using lettuce production as an example:
Total Amount of Investment: 372 million USD in 5 years
Total Lettuce Produced: 48,000 tons per year after all factories are built
Total of Vegetables Trade Imports Saved (with wholesale price of $5.5/Kg): 264 million
USD per year after all factories are built
A realistic schedule to reach this goal will be: to build 4 pilot factories in 2015, and 60
factories each year 2016-2019
Qatar will reach to its self-sufficiency of leafy-vegetables production in 5 years
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If 360 of our factories (fulfills the whole market size of Qatar and Bahrain) are built and operated
within 7 years in Qatar, following will be the statistics it may generate by using lettuce production as
an example:
Total Amount of Investment: 558 million USD in 7 years
Total Lettuce Produced: 72,000 tons per year after all factories are built
Total of Vegetables Trade Imports Saved (with wholesale price of $5/Kg): 240 million USD
per year after 240 factories are built
Total Trade Export to Bahrain Incomes Generated: 132 million USD per year after all
factories are built
A realistic schedule to reach this goal will be: to build 240 factories in 2015-2019, and 60
factories each year from 2020-2021
Qatar will reach to its self-sufficiency of leafy-vegetables production as well exporting
produced-vegetables to Bahrain

Now, we come back to look into the author-designed hydroponic vertical farming factory of
leafy-vegetables, and see why it is efficiently-designed and practically-operable for high profitability.
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Author-designed Hydroponic Vertical Farming Factory of leafy-vegetables:
a well and efficiently designed hydroponic vertical farming factory of leafy-vegetables built inside an
industrial workshop building

Our fully-automated mass-production vegetables-growing system is built inside a completely

enclosed industrial workshop building. This automated system is called Automated
Multi-Layer-Moving-Seedbed System. Our standard factory requires only a space of 1530 . A
WorkingSpace (or Headhouse) of 30M X 12.5M with flowing-lines of working benches, allows
movable seedbeds to flow through there during daily work is performed by workers waiting inside. A
large Growing Space of 38.5M X 30M with 3 layers of 7 growing-lines of shelving on each layer
forms a 3D shelving space for storing 273 movable seedbeds (growing units, 4.3M X 1.72M each).
Total actual growing area reaches 2100 .
Multi-Stage-Transplanting-Growing-Method is used. Seeds are prepared and sent inside a Spouting
Room to grow into sprouts. Then all sprouts are washed and planted into the seedbeds designed to
grow into 4X4 c sprouts. After 4X4 c sprouts are grown, they are transferred to seedbeds
designed to grow into 7x7 c sprouts. After 7x7 c sprouts are grown, they are transferred to
seedbeds designated to grow into 14X14 c full-size harvestable vegetables. This is the optimal
way to grow the maximum amount of vegetables. Also, we turn the 20-days-a-time transplanting into
daily routing operations. Same routine procedures are executed daily seedbed by seedbed along
with daily harvesting of fixed number of seedbeds of fully-grown vegetables. The whole production
becomes year-round non-stop operation with daily routine procedures. This averages out the sparse
labor and procedural requirements into daily work, and makes the best usage of man-power as well
as the ease of execution.
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Two Robotic-Vehicles are used for shuttling movable seedbeds between Workshop and Growing
Space. Workers perform work on the seedbeds flowed inside Workshop and never step into
Growing Space.
Our product can produce massive quantity of leafy-vegetables with low-cost. For growing lettuce as
an example, in Qatar, this factory can produce 1 million heads or 200,000 Kg of lettuces a year. It is
a completely self-supplied factory (all stages of sprouts are produced internally) requiring only
vegetable-seeds as its production source. Electricity is required to light up LED lighting and liquid
fertilizer and water is required for irrigation. It required limited resource on land. It does not generate
pollutant substances and is very environmental-friendly.
The reasons that our factory matches with Qatars conditions perfectly because:
1) The major cost of operating our hydroponic vertical farming system is the cost of electricity. Our
standard 1530 factory requires 1.25 million KWATS of electricity to provide LED lighting.
Qatar provides extremely low cost on electricity. Its electricity cost ($0.014/KWATS), is 1/7 to
China, 7% comparing to Japan, 3.5% comparing to Norway, Denmark, Finland and Sweden.
Our hydroponic vertical farming system basically utilizing Qatars low-cost electricity to turn
seeds into leafy-vegetables.
2) With Qatars high demands and high price on fresh leafy-vegetables, our factory can obtain
handsome profits by operating it in Qatar.
3) Our vegetable factory requires only vegetable-seeds as its source and is fully self-supplied with
self-grown sprouts and strong-sprouts. Once the factory is built and operation started, no
imports materials other than vegetables-seeds are required.
4) Our vegetable factorys operations are simple and standardized. Only one computer operator is
required with certain computer knowledge and all other daily tasks done by the workers are
routine and repetitive. Workers can be trained easily with no prior experiences required.
5) Any local farmer invested in building and operating our leafy-vegetable factory can result in high
profits. And ROI of factory can be as high as 40-50.5 annually. They can recover their full
investment within two and a half years.
Authors Hardware Know-how
1. Growing Units-Movable Seedbeds design where germchits, strong-sprouts and
leafy-vegetables are grown. They are stored in the 3-D Growing Space while lighting and
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irrigation are performed daily until growing-cycle is completed.

2. WorkingSpace (Headhouse) design Harvesting/Packaging/Shipping; Planting Seeds,
Transplanting Germchits/SproutsTwo robotic-vehicles are used to shuttle movable
seedbeds between Workshop and Growing Space. Workers are waiting inside here to
perform works daily on the seedbeds retrieved from Growing Space. Then, newly planted
seedbeds are shuttled from Workshop into the Growing Space.
3. Robotic-Vehicles designtwo robotic-vehicles are used. One for delivering newly planted
seedbeds from Workshop into Growing Space, one for retrieving ready-to-process
seedbeds from Growing Space to Workshop.
4. 3-Dimentional Shelving Space for all movable Seedbeds design
A. 3-layers shelving structure
B. 7 movable Seedbeds flowing lines on each layer
C. 13 movable Seedbeds can be stored and flowed on each flowing line
D. Automated Irrigation System designRecycled Nutrient Liquid are stored in tanks and
daily irrigation is performed automatically by computer-control schedule. A hydroponic
NFT method is implemented.
E. Automated LED Lighting System design: LED lighting are installed on top of every
movable seedbeds on the shelving. Daily lightings are performed by computer-control
schedule.
Authors Software Know-how
1. Computer operated software for delivering and retrieving movable seedbeds
2. Recipes for nutrient solutions for different kinds of leafy-vegetables
3. Recipes for lighting schedule for different kinds of leafy-vegetables
4. Recipes for handling Seed-to-Germchit, Germchits-to-StrongSprout,
StrongSprout-to-Vegetable for different kinds of leafy-vegetables
5. Providing detailed processing notes for growing vegetables on different stage
6. Providing detailed information on harvesting, packaging and shipping processing
7. Assurance on the mass-production on the leafy-vegetable requested by the customers
8. Proving consultation on developing new leafy-vegetables production

Photos of Author-designed factory

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To calculate the Total Number of Lettuces produced annually in our
factory:

With actual data collected in a in the author-designed factory in 2012-2013, we provide heads of
lettuces that a 1530 sq. meters factory that can be produced annually:

System Configurations and production statistics:
Total of Growing Units: 273
Each Growing Units size: 4.3M X 1.73M
Cost of industrial workshop build: $250,000
Cost of Hydroponic Vertical Farming System installed inside: $1.3 Million.
System has a Germination Room to produce initial-sprouts (2cmX2cm-size) from
vegetable-seeds daily with 14 days of growing cycle. 4950 initial-sprouts (2cmX2cm-size) can
be produced daily.
System utilizes 26 growing units to produce stronger-sprouts (4cmX4cm-size) from
initial-sprouts (2cmX2cm-size). 1 growing units (around 3600 stronger-sprouts) can be
produced daily.
System utilizes 52 growing units to product lager-sprouts (7cmX7cm-size) from
stronger-sprouts (4cmX4cm-size) with 20 days of growing cycle. 2.6 growing units (and 3200
stronger-sprouts) can be produced daily.
System utilizes 195 growing units to product harvestable lettuces (14cmX14cm-size) with 20
days of growing cycle. 9.25 growing units (and 2900 vegetables) can be produced daily.

Total Number of Lettuces can be produced annually:
Annual Production calculations:
With one stage of germination in a Germination
Room, and 3 stages to grow sprouts to lettuces,
the final daily number of seedbeds that we can
produce harvesting vegetables are:

9.25

Growing
Units

Harvestable Lettuces on each Growing Units are: 348 Head
Annual Production Days are: 365 days
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Annual Number of Lettuce that we grow: 1,174,935 Head
Consider survival rate of the lettuce on each
Growing Unit:
90%

Actual Number of Lettuces produced annually 1,057,442 Head
With Qatars market retail-price of $1.60 to $1.80 per head of lettuce, and we calculate total annual
income o f our factory with wholesale-price of $1.1 per head of lettuce.
Income Statement and Return-on-Investment calculation on our standard
1530 factory
byproducingLettucesasexample
1530 Sq. Meters 3-Layer 273 Seedbeds
Hydroponic Vegetable Factory
$1,540,323
USD
Total Annual Income $1,163,186 USD
USD
Total Annual Expenses $530,801 USD
Labor Cost (total of 26 working 2 shifts,
assumed $3300 per worker per year)
$179,200 USD
Cost of seeds $44,761 USD
Sprout Growing Supporter $29,141 USD
Liquid Fertilizer $9,677 USD
Consumable Materials $5,181 USD
Cost of packaging $68,222 USD
Cost of Cooling/Heating $12,096 USD
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Cost of Electricity for LED lightings $17,338 USD
Land Rental Fee $23,516 USD
Depreciation (95% depreciate in 15 years) $97,043 USD
System Operation and Maintenance $12,903 USD
Administration Fee(3% of Total Income $31,723 USD

Profit $632,384 USD
Profit Taxes (unknown, assumed 0% at this time) 0 %
Net Profit $632,384 USD
Return on Investment 41.1%

We can see that, local farmer make investment in building and operating our factory there, can
recover their total investment cost back in two and a half year.
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Conclusion:
Building and operating author-designed hydroponic vertical farming factory
of leafy-vegetables, Qatar can provide fresh leafy-vegetables to its local
residents and also become a leafy-vegetables-exporting country. And a
brand-new, environmental-friendly and highly profitable industry of
leafy-vegetables farming can be started in Qatar.
NOTE1: Author-designed Hydroponic Vertical Farming Factory of Leafy-Vegetables is
manufactured and semi-assembled in China. The semi-assembled factory will be shipped
container-ocean-freight to Qatar for final assembly and testing onsite. Lead-time from the order is
given with 66% down payment, to the delivery onsite is 3 months, and final assembly and testing
time is 2 months. So, total of 5 months of lead-time before the system is functional shall be
expected.
NOTE2: The standard1530 , 273 seedbeds system price is 1.3 USD FOB Shanghai, China
including all turn-key system equipments inside an industrial workshop building. This price excludes
the industrial workshop building itself and the temperature-controlled system of the building.
NOTE3: Authors company will guarantee our customer of the production of the mutually-agreed
type of leafy-vegetables, and is willing to perform the vegetables production operation for the
customer under mutually-agreed contract with charge if so desired by the customer.
NOTE4: Author-designed factory currently is designed for lettuce growing and production. Other
mutually-agreed type of leafy-vegetable can be chosen and authors company will make the proper
modification to perform the production of vegetable type chosen. However, we only allow one type of
leafy-vegetables to be grown and produced in one factory. The production of various types of
leafy-vegetables in the same factory will weaken the utilization of seedbeds and degrade the
efficiency of the production (and may lose the profitability), therefore, not supported.
NOTE5: Because our factory utilize the Multi-Stage-Transplanting-Growing-Method, there is a
ramp-up time of 74 days (in the case of lettuce production) before daily production of targeted
quantity can be performed from that day and on. The ramp-up times for different type of
leafy-vegetables may vary.
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NOTE6: Although Qatar is what author writes this article for, there are two other places that author
has in mind can also build and operate of our factory of leafy-vegetables with high profits: they are
Bahrain in Persian Gulf, and Iceland in Nordic Europe. Investors with interests in building and
operating of our factories in these two locations can send your request to Authors email address:
pteng88@gamil.com and the full analysis information package will be replied to you with the location
you specified.