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PS Nutrac Profile

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CORE VALUES

• Pioneering agricultural technology to ensure food security.

• Research and development for more uses for agricultural produce.

• Educating the public on Agriculture, Nutrition and Health.

• Providing alternative medicine through nutrition.

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About us

PS Nutraceuticals (PS Nutrac.) was established with the vision “eat right, live longer”. Our mission is “to ensure food is the drug we eat to live healthier and longer”. Our core markets of operation will initially be Nigeria.

PS Nutrac. implements cutting edge agricultural technologies for efficiency in food production to ensure food security.

PS Farms is a subsidiary of PS Nutrac. PS Farms will set up, manage, and maintain farms for premium crops to cater to local and international markets.

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✓ Agri-‐Technology

✓ Research & Development

✓ Training & Education

✓ Alternative Medicine

Our capabilities include:


The issueAccording to the World Bank, “The world needs to produce at least 50% more food to feed 9 billion people by 2050. But climate change could cut crop yields by more than 25%. The land, biodiversity, oceans, forests, and other forms of natural capital are being depleted at unprecedented rates. Unless we change how we grow our food and manage our natural capital, food security—especially for the world’s poorest—will be at risk.”

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Crop yield instability

Climate change

Food insecurity


The solution

• Reduce the risk and increase the returns of farming

• Guarantee crop yields and reduce time from planting to harvest • Foster global trading of agricultural produce

• Train and educate the population on health and nutrition

• Empower the farmers • Job creation

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Change how we grow our food.

Implement latest technologies such as hydroponics, aquaponics, aeroponics to improve farming efficiency.

Train, support, and collaborate with farmers to ensure standardization and quality of crop production.

Establish marketing boards to facilitate trade of crops in local and international markets.

Research, development, and education to provide alternative medicine through nutrition.

Reinvent the wheel


Your Farms

Local farm 1

Local farm 2

Local farm 3

Local farm 4

Local farm 5

Controlled, steady supply of produce

The Network

Local buyers

Rest of the world buyers

Pan-‐African buyers

Our network of farmers, empowered with our technology systems, will grow fresh organic produce.

Our technology systems introduce greater control and certainty to the supply of produce, which will improve trading opportunities.

Intra-‐Africa trade, at 6%, provides tremendous room for growth by, establishing a trading company, which will be able to offer a portal for trading the produce locally and internationally.

Benefits: • Improve global food security.

• Clientele using our technology can create access to external markets/buyers.

• Establish the first global agricultural trading platform in Africa. • Trade foreign exchange obtained from export activities.

• Tradable import duty credits.

• Potential tax concessions for agro-‐allied companies.

An untapped opportunity

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Agri-‐tech spotlight: Aeroponics

One of our specialist areas is that of Aeroponics, a technology of growing crops in the air without soil.

The benefits include:

Merging agriculture with technology is the key to increased efficiency in the sector.

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• Eliminates the necessity of fertile land and soil, thus

ameliorates the current challenges faced in the agriculture

sector

• Not as labor intensive as conventional farming, thus reducing

significant costs to the farmer.

• Eliminates the need for pesticides

• Low reliance on fertilisers

• Increases speed of harvest by 45% -‐ 70% compared to

conventional farming

• Scalability

• Increased profitability

• Eliminates seasonal dependency

due to controlled climate within

the green house/and or screen

house

• Eliminates post-‐harvest wastage

Drastically reduces the amount of

water used by 95% due to the

recycled water structure put in

place

• Substantial expansion creates more

jobs and raises the standard of

living


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Aeroponics technique has the following crucial benefits:

● Faster and healthier growth since it has enough oxygen (in the root region)

● Increased harvest rate. 45 – 70% faster than conventional agricultural techniques.

● Studies has shown that plants grown via the aeroponic system have an increase in flavonoids

What are flavonoids? Flavonoids are one of the largest nutrient families known to

scientists, and include over 6,000 already-‐identified family members

The unique nutrient richness of every whole, natural food can be showcased in a variety of ways, but there is no better way to highlight the unique nutrient richness of foods than to focus on their flavonoid content!

The system ensures you can grow your own plants anywhere; whether it be inside your kitchen or garden space. You can have a cherry tomatoes plant in the parlour for both ornamental purpose and nutritional value. Thanks to aeroponics system, we can increase our life span and improve our health, thus giving us a better quality of life.

Health Benefits

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GREATER EFFICIENCY & YIELD

RICESeed to harvest % of survival

from seedHarvest from 1

acre of land

Soil 5 – 7 months 97 408.2kg

Aeroponic 3 months 100 5443.1kg

TOMATOStalk to harvest % of survival

from stalkHarvest from 1

acre of land

Soil 70-80 days 75 5 – 10 tons

Aeroponic 30 days 95 180 tons

YAMVine to harvest % of survival from

vine date to last

harvestHarvest from 1

acre of land

Soil 8 months 45-60 8 months 1361kg

Aeroponic 5 months 80 3 years 6804kg

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Competitor overview

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OKOMU OIL OLAM PRESCO SARO GROUP PS GROUP

Industry Agriculture Agriculture Agriculture Agriculture Agrosciences Health

Agriculture Agrosciences Health

Founded 1976 1989 1991 1991 2016

Value Chain

Farming Processing

Farming Processing Marketing Distribution

Farming Processing

Crop Protection Agri-‐technology Commodities Export Public Health Personal & Home Care

Organic Farming Crop Protection Agri-‐technology Commodities Export Public Health

Core Product

CASH CROPS Palm Oil Rubber

CASH CROPS Cashew Cocoa Sheanut Sesame

CASH CROPS Palm Oil Rubber

CASH CROPS Cashew Cocoa Sesame

FOOD CROPS Cereals VegetablesRoot & Tubers Flowers


Commercial Designs of our GH/SH systems

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Green House(GH) with controlled temperature

Economic Screen House(SH) with natural climate and protection from insects


VISUALS OF OUR AEROPONIC SYSTEMS.

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Commercial Design of an Aeroponic system

This is used for vegetable propagation and this system can generate 500,000 leafy vegetables monthly

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Tomatoes grown via the aeroponics system with over 1,000,000 fruits at a single

harvest

Tomatoes growing in the Air

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Training staff from NRCRI Umudike

Aeroponics system used for production of seed yam at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), under the program for Yam Improvement for Income and Food security in West Africa (YIIFSWA), Ibadan, Nigeria


Strategic thinking• In 1961, Nigeria controlled 42% of the global groundnut market, 27% of the palm oil market,

18% of the cocoa market, and 1.4% of the cotton market. Today, Nigeria is a net importer of these produce.

• Nigeria has lost its dominance to the likes of China, USA, Indonesia, Argentina, Ghana, and Cote d-‐Ivoire due to: – Lack of marketing organization linking farmers to markets – Inadequate form of planting materials, fertilizers, credit and rural infrastructure

Implementing a Strategy for Growth

• Private sector leadership -‐ In Kenya, initiatives driven by the private sector propelled it to the world’s number one horticulture market and created eight million jobs.

• Supportive fiscal policies -‐ Countries such as Malawi, China, Vietnam, Brazil, and Thailand became self-‐sufficient in food production within years of transforming their agricultural sectors, through national input support programs focused on small holder farmers.

• Infrastructure investments • Market information systems

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Source: BusinessDay Research & Intelligence Unit


Lending institutions in Nigeria traditionally tend to be risk averse when it comes to lending to the agriculture sector. Financial institutions find it challenging to lend to the agricultural sector due to the following reasons:

● Inconsistent weather patterns

● Crop disease

● Fluctuating yield

● Maximum yield is not attainable due to traditional agriculture methods; cultivation of crops is limited to the ground.

● Fluctuating market prices

Aeroponics is not dependent on weather and seasons, you can grow all year round. Due to the controlled and enclosed environment the risk of diseases is mitigated alongside accurate yield predictions, therefore financial institutions can build proper projects and dole out capital.

AEROPONIC LOAN PROGRAM

FINANCING

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NEXT STEPS

● Develop budget based on requirements ● Finalise agreement ● Execution ● Quarterly maintenance ● Quarterly reports and reviews ● Quarterly business assessment for expansion


Meet the founders

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Olisaeloka Peter Okocha Jr Role Managing Director / Co-‐founder

Past Roles Managing Director, Michelle Shipping, Lagos

Industrial attachment, Hong Kong International Terminals, Hong Kong

Risk Management Analyst, International Merchant Bank Plc, Lagos

Summer Associate, Mazawi & Co. Securities, Johannesburg

Analyst, African Petroleum Plc, Lagos

Education MSc Management, University of Edinburgh, U.K.

BA Economics, University of Chicago

Samson OgboleRole Director / Co-‐founder

Other Position Research supervisor, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Oyo

Education MBA Common Wealth of Nations (in view)

MSc Biochemistry, University of Ibadan, Oyo (in view)

BSc Biochemistry, Igbinedion University, Okada

Biotechnology Certificate, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta

Introduction to Food and Nutrition Certificate, Stanford University, California

Public Health Certificate, University of Albany, New York


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Contact us

[email protected]

+2348067617407

Oluwadamilola Hassan +2348065518584

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www.psnutrac.com

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