Investment Cost: $22,000 (cost of the hemp decorticator).
Operational Costs: (labor, maintenance, transportation, and any other running costs) $5,000 per year.Hemp Fiber Revenue: (30+70 decares)Yield: 25 tonsPrice: Varies by market, but let’s assume $1,500 per ton (a mid-range estimate).
Total Revenue from Fiber: 37,500 USD ($10k profit)
Hemp Hurd Revenue: Yield: 70 tons
Price: Typically lower than fiber, let’s assume $200 per ton.
Carry operations, but use for textiles, 3t for paper
Impact: ...
- Placement – missed the season
- 100 kgs of fiber from cotton, 3x hemp from 1 ga
- less chemistry
- Employment: 20% of workers over average, more women
- Bigger carbon sequestration
- Bee hives
- EBF – hypercerts for the bioregion, different initiatives here + education
Local loan opps: ...
- Get small gov grant?
- Guarantees? – has car or houses as part of commodities, come crypto
bottleneck with processing hemp
Alp Ergin inverter