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SEOBI Services
Community Development Services
- Evaluation of potential emerging farmers for essential oil farming
- Assessment of viability of essential oil production
- Selection of entrepreneurial farmers or projects for incubation
- Registration of projects as legal entities or structures
- Design and implementation of the appropriate governance
- Community development interventions with the incubated
- Assessment of social dynamics of projects
- Impact assessment and evaluation of projects
Agronomy Services
- Soil sampling and testing
- Land suitability assessment
- Water availability assessment
- Assessment of the agricultural infrastructure available
- Establishment of trial plantations
- Monitoring the growth of plants
- Determining the time to harvest the plants
- Oil extraction through the distillation process
- Determining the oil yields of different essential oil crops
- Determining the 'crop menu' from the trial results
- Recommendations of essential oil crops to be planted
- SEOBI promotes organic production of essential oils for all its clients
- SEOBI essential oils are organic
- On-farm training of incubates in the following essential oil agronomic techniques:
- Land preparation
- Organic certification of the farms
- Irrigation scheduling
- Weed control
- Harvesting techniques
- Extraction of the oil from the plants
Agro - Processing Services
- Sourcing the right design and specification of the distillation equipment
- Commissioning of the steam distillation facilities
- Providing cost effective mobile steam distillation equipment to small scale farmers at affordable leasing prices
- Recommending to farmers the best suppliers of cost effective distillation equipment
- Onsite training in essential oil extraction by steam distillation
Business Development Services
- Assist farmers with business expansion process
- Business development takes the business from the trial stage to commercialisation
- Assist farmers with detailed and professional business plan preparation
- Assist farmers raise funding for their essential oil business
- Presentation of farmer business plans to potential funders and financiers for funding
- Assistance in obtaining financial support from the public and private sectors both locally and internationally
- Interaction and networking with all the financial and other stakeholders
- Supplying the necessary information about the essential oil business to the relevant stakeholders
- Liaison with other appropriate Government Departments e.g. Agriculture and Land Affairs
- Training farmers in the following business management areas
- Business planning
- Business strategy
- Entrepreneurship
- Financial management
- Book keeping
- Cash flow management
- Financial statement reading and understanding
Marketing Services
- SEOBI assists farmers to have access to reliable and competitive local and international markets
- SEOBI ensures that there is a contractual agreement with the buyers to buy all the oil produced before production begins
- SEOBI monitors the relationship between the essential oil growers and the buyers to ensure fair trade
- SEOBI facilitates linkages of its incubates to the buyers and to markets
- Provide chemical and sensory analyses of essential oils in order to determine quality and marketability of the oils produced by the incubates
- SEOBI interacts with the buyers of essential oils locally and internationally
- Promotion of essential oil business and clients through open days and field days
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