Partnerships in Local

Enterprise Development
and Governance Sustainability
(PLEDGES) Program
• an integrated local development strategy to Reduce Poverty And
Hunger and improve the fiscal capacity of LGUs.
• focused on the most BASIC NEEDS for general WELL-BEING:

 WATER  ENERGY
 LIVELIHOOD  LEARNING SYSTEMS

• available VILLAGE-SCALE TECHNOLOGIES and BUSINESS

PLANS of projects requiring LOW START-UP CAPITAL:
o Coco Foods Processing Plant (PhP 2.37 million)
o Biofuel-fired Seawater Desalination System for Potable
(Purified) Water Supply and Salt Production (PhP 835,000)
o Biofuel-Driven Power Generation and Seawater Desalination
(Php 3.15 million)
o Small-Scale Iodized Salt Production Plant (PhP 2.91 million)
o 1.35 MT Mini-Ice Plant (PhP 3.15 million)
o 4.0 MT Cold Store for Ice and Fish Trading (PhP 1.1 million)
o Popsicle and Ice-Cream Plant (PhP 500,000)
o Community College of Science & Technology
o and many more.

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 Partnerships in Local Enterprise Development
and Governance Sustainability (PLEDGES) Program

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY PROJECT SUMMARY

Biofuel-Driven Power Generation and Seawater Desalination for Potable Water Supply
and Salt Production in Small Island and Remote Coastal Communities

PROJECT CONCEPT:

This Project harnesses local bio-fuel resources to meet two very basic needs of small island and remote coastal
communities: ELECTRICITY and WATER. To bring down the operating costs and user charges of existing
small diesel generating sets, the Project shall demonstrate and validate the techno-economic viability of using
CRUDE COCONUT OIL as diesel fuel supplement or blend. The Project shall thus be anchored on and
complement the operations of a closely related project, a village-scale coconut processing plant.

The use of coconut oil as

PROCESS FLOW DIAGRAM diesel substitute or fuel blend
Bio-Fuel Power Generation and Seawater Desalination Plants for diesel engines has already
been established as technically
feasible. The rising cost of
Sea
Electricity to households diesel fuel and the depressed
and establishments
Water Condenser/ prices of copra, especially in
Water Evaporation
Tank Distiller these target communities who
absorb their higher transaction
Sea Water Water Evaporation cost of copra trading, also
created its economic
Gen-Set Diesel Concentrated Purified Water feasibility. The Project shall
Biomass Fuel- for Home &
Cooling Gen-Set Brine
Fired Stage 2 Commercial/ tap the waste heat from its bio-
& Sea Industrial diesel power plant to
Desalination
water Consumption
desalinate seawater and
Pre-
heating
produce potable (distilled and
Bio-Fuel Oil Table Salt for Home and
purified) water and the by-
System Commercial/ Industrial
Consumption product salt.
The bio-fuel power plant shall
buy the coconut oil from the
village coconut processing
plant at the same price as
diesel fuel which, at current
prices, is equivalent to the
plant-gate price of copra. The
latter shall in turn be able to
pay the farmers better terms
for their copra and even much
better terms for their whole
nut harvest.
INSTALLED POWER CAPACITY: 60 KW PRIME MOVER: 80HP diesel engine, water cooled
FUEL: 95% crude coconut oil; 5% petro-diesel
ANNUAL PRODUCTION: 486,000 kwhrs of electricity; 26,000 CM of purified water; 864 MT of table salt
ANNUAL OPERATING INCOME: PhP 674,400 ESTIMATED TOTAL PROJECT COST: PhP 3.15
million
RETURN ON INVESTMENT RATE (R0I) /PAYBACK PERIOD: 19.2% p.a. / 5.2 years

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 Partnerships in Local Enterprise Development
and Governance Sustainability (PLEDGES) Program

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY PROJECT SUMMARY

Mini Cold Storage & Ice/Fish Trading

PROJECT CONCEPT/DESIGN:

The Project involves the retail of block ice and trading of high-value fishes. For this purpose two (2) units of
cold storage facilities shall be fabricated and installed in the Project site. One unit shall be used for storage of
block ice with a capacity of 24 ice blocks or 3 MT at 125 kgs per block. The other unit, designed as walk-in to
allow ease of product handling, shall be used for storage of fish with a maximum capacity of 1 MT. Fabricated
all-steel, each cold store unit is estimated to weigh only 2 MT and is thus easily transportable to any remote
place with road access.

Using a V-type or belt-driven 3HP compressor for each cold store unit, the project can operate continuously
during power outages by using a small stand-by diesel generating set of 7HP or more. For this reason, the Mini
Cold Store can also be located in remote fishing villages where electricity is not available.

The Project shall purchase block ice from ice plants in the capital city at the estimated price, delivered, of P130
per block and retail the ice to local consumers, primarily small-scale fishers at a mark-up of 25%. The Project
shall also purchase the fish caught or harvested by the local fishers/fish farmers at an average cost of P60/kg
and sell to consumers in nearby urban centers at a mark-up of 50%.

OPERATING VOLUMES: BLOCK ICE – 24 blocks (3 MT)/day; FISH STORAGE: 1 MT storage, 1

MT/week

ANNUAL GROSS INCOME: PhP 6.12 million

ANNUAL NET INCOME BEFORE INTEREST & TAXES: PhP 1.11 million

ESTIMATED TOTAL PROJECT COST: PhP 1.09 million

COST OF COLD STORAGE UNITS: PhP 200,000 (3 MT Block Ice Storage) and PhP 150,000 (1 MT Fish
Storage)

RETURN ON INVESTMENT RATE (R0I) /PAYBACK PERIOD: 102.1% p.a. / 1.0 year

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 Partnerships in Local Enterprise Development
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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY PROJECT SUMMARY

1.35 MT Mini Ice Plant

PROJECT CONCEPT/DESIGN:

The 1.35 MT Mini-Ice Plant is designed to produce both crystal cube ice to meet the requirements of food
establishments for high-quality beverage cooling ice and iced foods, e.g., halo-halo, and regular block ice for
general home consumption as well as for preservation and transport of highly perishable goods such as fish and
meat. For both ice products, the system filters and purifies the raw water supply, hence both are actually food-
grade. However, to meet the quality standards of high-end markets, e.g., hotels and restaurants, the system
incorporates the technology of crystallizing the ice to produce the crystal ice cubes in demand in these special
establishments.

Using a V-type or belt-driven 5HP compressor, the plant can operate continuously during power outages by
using a small stand-by diesel generating set of 7HP or more. For this reason, the Mini-Ice Plant can also be
located in remote fishing villages where electricity is not available.

DAILY/ANNUAL ICE PRODUCTION CAPACITY: 1.35 MT/486,000 MT

SELLING PRICES: Crystal Cube Ice – PhP 35 per 10 kg bag; Mini-Block Ice (15 kg) – PhP 22.50 (PhP
1.50/kg)

ANNUAL GROSS INCOME: PhP 1.2 million

ANNUAL OPERATING INCOME: PhP 342,378

ESTIMATED TOTAL PROJECT COST: PhP 1.62 million

COST OF ICE-MAKING PLANT MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT: PhP 870,000

RETURN ON INVESTMENT RATE (R0I) /PAYBACK PERIOD: 21.1% p.a. / 4.7 years

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 Partnerships in Local Enterprise Development
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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY PROJECT SUMMARY

SMALL-SCALE IODIZED SALT PRODUCTION PLANT

PROJECT CONCEPT:

This Project aims to contribute to the eradication of iodine deficiency disorders (IDDs) in the Philippines which
remain a serious nutrition and health concern of the country. IDDs comprise a broad spectrum of deficiencies
resulting from lack of iodine in the diet which leads to the reduction of intellectual and physical capacity
affecting everyone who is iodine deficient and may manifest as goiter, mental retardation, physical and mental
defects, and cretinism.

The Project shall establish a small-scale salt-iodizing plant in a municipality or cluster of municipalities. It shall
be a forward linkage of the prospective establishment of barangay seawater desalination plants in small island
and remote coastal communities to produce their own requirements of potable water and salt, and in the case of
the latter, the trading of their excess supply. The production plant shall adopt the UNICEF recommended
technologies as effectively adapted in various places in the country, including local fabrication of salt iodizing
machines based on a suitable model developed under the UNICEF’s global micronutrient initiative. Two of the
various suitable models are shown in the diagrams below:

ROLLER DRUM SALT IODIZATION MACHINE. BATCH TYPE SALT GRINDER WITH DRIP FEED ATTACHMENT

ANNUAL PRODUCTION/SALES: 300 MT/PhP 4.5 million

ANNUAL OPERATING INCOME: PhP 1.073 million
ESTIMATED TOTAL PROJECT COST: PhP 2.91 million
RETURN ON INVESTMENT RATE/PAYBACK PERIOD: 36.9% p.a. /2.7 years

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 Partnerships in Local Enterprise Development
and Governance Sustainability (PLEDGES) Program

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY PROJECT SUMMARY

VILLAGE-SCALE COCO FOODS PROCESSING PLANT

PROJECT CONCEPT:

The Project adopts the concept of a Village-Scale Coco Foods Processing Plant with a daily capacity of only
1,000 nuts as the most affordable and viable initial phase of a fully integrated community coconut central. At
this initial scale, the 300,000 coconuts raw material requirement can be supplied by as low as 20 hectares at the
average annual production of 15,000 per hectare of a fully planted and productive coconut farm. The Project
shall adopt the “wet-dry” process that eliminates the conventional copra making phase (see process flow
diagram at the back page).

The Project shall involve available local technologies that are adapted to local conditions. A major departure
from conventional practice is the use of biomass, e.g. rice hull and/or corncobs, as fuel for all cooking and
drying operations. Such a set-up allows the full recovery of the economic value of the coconut shell and husk,
which are partly (in some cases fully) consumed in copra-drying and edible oil production processes. Instead of
the traditional practice that takes about 3 days of copra drying, the “wet-dry” process produces coconut oil and
aflatoxin-free sapal meal within 24 hours.

The main product lines at this initial stage include: beverage from the nutrient-rich coconut water; gata (fresh
coconut milk), virgin oil and sapal feed ingredients from the meat; and charcoal from the cocoshell. The
coconut husk supply shall initially be sold as fuel to household users and delicacy makers. After attaining stable
operations of the initial product lines, the village-scale plant shall expand operations and/or be replicated in
other villages, and the cluster shall evolve the fully integrated municipal-level coconut central. The central shall
at this point incorporate the decorticating facilities to convert the coconut husk to produce coir and peat, and
grinding equipment to produce coco flour from the sapal byproduct.

DAILY PRODUCTION:

ANNUAL OPERATING INCOME: PhP 0.934 Million

ESTIMATED TOTAL PROJECT COST: PhP 2.37 Million
RETURN ON INVESTMENT RATE (R0I) /PAYBACK PERIOD: 39.5%/2.5 Years

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 Partnerships in Local Enterprise Development
and Governance Sustainability (PLEDGES) Program

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY PROJECT SUMMARY

VILLAGE-SCALE BIOFUEL-FIRED SEAWATER DESALINATION SYSTEM

FOR POTABLE WATER AND SALT PRODUCTION IN SMALL ISLAND AND REMOTE COASTAL COMMUNITIES

PROJECT CONCEPT: Instead of producing only table salt as in the traditional solar salt pond system, the
Project also produces purified water which constitutes about 96% of seawater. The village-scale biofuel-fired
seawater desalination system: a) utilizes the available biomass resources in rural villages as source of heat
energy to accelerate the evaporation process; b) captures and condenses the evaporated water, and stores the
distilled (pure) water for distribution to village consumers (Figure 1).

Seawater Filtration Filtered Freshwater

Storage Tank System Seawater Storage Tank

Seawater Evaporation Distribution

& Distillation Lines

Salt Cake Pure Water

Bottling*

Granulated
Grinding Table Salt in
Sacks
Bottled
Water
Packing Granulated
Table Salt in
PE packs* *Optional product lines
Figure 1. Process Flow Diagram of a Village-Scale Seawater Desalination System

DAILY PRODUCTION SCALE: 5,000 liters of purified water and 170 kgs of high quality table salt.
ESTIMATED TOTAL PROJECT COST: PhP 835,000
RETURN ON INVESTMENT RATE/PAYBACK PERIOD: 39.5% p.a. /2.5 years

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