How to own
One container, four ways to own it.
What differs is who owns it, who runs it and where the output goes.
Side by side
Five questions decide it.
The four ownership paths compared
Capital to start
- USD 90,000 to 350,000, by size
- Quoted on application
- Co-op lease-to-own, quoted on application
- Ten containers and up, per partnership
What you own at the end
- Title from day one
- Buy out at the outright price
- The co-op owns the containers
- The containers and territory rights
Who runs it
- Your operator, trained at commissioning
- The same as buying
- The co-op, on member farms
- You, with 5 to 10 sub-distributors
The land it suits
- 1 to 50 ha up to 500 ha and beyond, by size
- The same three sizes
- Fifty members or more
- The largest farms in a region
Settled against quoted
- Prices, royalty and warranty are settled
- Royalty and warranty settled, the rest quoted
- Set in the signed agreement
- One anchor per region, the rest in the agreement
Royalty is USD 2 a litre of fertilizer produced for sale or use, on the buy and the lease path alike, and none on fish. Lease figures are quoted on application: more than one set of terms is on file and none governs yet. Warranty is one year, hardware and operations, every size.
The fit
Which one is yours.
- Buy outright
You farm at scale, the capital is there, and you want the asset on your books.
- Lease
You want production running before committing the purchase price.
- Cooperative
You route inputs through a co-op and can place containers on member farms.
- Anchor farmer
You farm at regional scale and will run a sales operation as well as a farm.
Not sure is an answer.
The form asks which path you prefer, and not sure is an accepted choice.