MAISON DES PLANTULES

In view of its diversification programme, and taking into consideration the continuous decrease in land area under sugarcane cultivation, the Federation has taken a step further to explore and provide its services to the food crop sector to remain viable on the market. Since the MCAF imports various agro-inputs including seeds, growing medium, seedling trays and bio products for which  the vegetable planters  require, the Federation has decided to embark on a project of Healthy Seedling Production for vegetable planters at a competitive price.

 
A SMALL BRIEF

ABOUT
MAISON DES PLANTULES

The project cost is Rs 4 M and fully owned by the MCAF Ltd. Operations, Management and Marketing is entirely under the management of the Federation. The unit is located in the premises of Maison des Eleveurs, Henrietta under 60 perches of land.

The seedling unit consists of two sections, a production unit constructed under 130m2 concrete building which include the seeding machine imported from Italy costing around Rs 500,000, two germination rooms and one office. The second section consists of a 600 m2 green house with high roof air vent system. The capacity of the greenhouse can hold up to 108,000 seedlings at one go. The Annual capacity is around 1.3 Million seedlings. The innovative part of this project is that the all seedlings will be treated with only bio/organic certified products.

The seedling unit is committed to provide high quality vegetable seedlings (Tomato, Chilli, Eggplant, Lettuce, Cabbage, Beetroot, Pumpkin, etc). The unit also cater for home garden for instance seedling of fine herbs, flowers and fruit seedlings (papaya and grenadine). Sales and Marketing will be effected through the 13 sales outlets of the MCAF Ltd with delivery facilities in planter’s fields.

Vegetable Seedlings