Atlas Point Hydro Farm: Executive Summary

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COMPONENTS OF ATLAS POINT HYDROPONICS FARM (ESTABLISHED) BUSINESS PLAN

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
 Atlas Point Hydro farm is a revolutionary hydroponics farming industry business that utilizes the latest’s and greatest technology in the hydroponics industry. Atlas has been providing fresh produce to local and in refer national markets for more than 4 years. Our headquarters and bases of operations is located in Canada, where the demand of fresh produce from farms is required constantly, thus Atlas point is able provide all year round. Being a hydroponics farm Atlas has head to employ many specialists in many fields of agriculture in order to provide the best quality vegetables and fruits for our consumers. Atlas point hydroponics farm utilizes 6 main
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In 2015 Atlas point mad a deal with Turn net organic agricultural composting company, this deal allowed for increased yield, training of staff / labor, increased public appeal through touring of the base of operations and in 2016 granted Atlas point an officially recognized farm with organically grown produce this certification our market of sale locally by 24.6% in our last quarterly profit margins, thus Atlas point hydroponics farm has come alone …show more content…
 Weakness
 May suffer from a transportation to markets such as China and Russia due to crop life span and shipping costs
 Constant checking of hydroponic systems is time consuming
 Training of lab our to understand some of the complicate methods of hydroponics
 opportunites
 The recent weather patterns across the world were droughts and flooding have occurred give our company a big gap to find in terms of health and fresh fruit and vegetables to sell .
 Hydroponics has an advantage over traditional soil based cultivation due to the poor weather , lag of rainfall and the soil nutrients levels and diseases and acts of God affect the production of crops unlike hydroponics
 The recent shift across the world of more people wanting to eat healthy
 The key market of organically grown vegetables and fruits is accessible due to our organization of our hydroponics systems, we are able to gain max profit form this market.

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