Showing posts with label healthy options. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healthy options. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Healthy options as new businesses

Ateneo Professor on Entrepreneurship

Rizal Philippines   | April 30, 2013

In the consultation with Sentrep students for BP, two students proposed healthy options:   one was going to import and resell virgin olive and organic olive oil;  the other one would put up healthy restaurant. When I asked the student on healthy restaurant and asked him on:  water, cookwares and other details of healthy living, he said he had nosebleed.

One thing came out though, that both would need an organic farm as a partner.

It happened that we had a classmate (also now a senior) who has an organic farm in Jalajala Rizal




                                   Organic squash


                                         A dragon fruit farm

The problem of the lady owner are:    lack of sufficient water supply, very intensive (and therefore expensive operations)

The water supply can be solved by having solar power;   the expense level can be solved by having market/buyers connected her.  She needs to pound more on the MVP of her farm:  that it is healthy option and therefore is more expensive than those farms that use pesticides and fertilizers