Artemis Agriculture Swaziland has
finally completed construction of their primary processing facility!
This facility is located on a 56-hectare
Virgin land farm and focuses on farming efforts in the growth of new-age
superfoods as opposed to traditional “cash crops”. Artemis Agri have utilized
40 hectares for the growth and processing of Moringa Leaf powder with an
additional 5 hectares being inter-cropped with Ginger and Turmeric.
Artemis Agri is proud to have achieved
organic certification for these crops which would in-turn only enhance our
position as a superfoods focused farm.
The farm boasts a 700m2 state of
the art GMP designed production and processing facility. The facility would
mainly in the short term be used for the processing of our final product,
through the drying and milling of the nutrient-rich moringa leaf into a fine
dried leaf powder which is consumed in both powder and capsule formats.
The Moringa leaves are harvested
from our farm at the ideal time so as to yield the highest nutritional value
from the leaf. The leaves are then delivered in minimal time rite next door to
the processing facility to be sorted and washed to remove any foreign matters
and associated microbes. We believe this efficiency from harvest to the
production facility will allow differentiate us in the market. After washing
the leaves, our trained local processing team sort and pack the leaves into
specifically measured drying trays. The leaves are then pre-dried to remove all
excess water from the washing and finally transferred to a state-of-the-art
heat pump drying machine. The heat pump drying machine allows us to dry at low
temperatures, so we do not destroy nutrients, and be moisture specific so we
conserve electricity costs.
Once dry the leaves are taken to the final processing stage where the leaves are milled into a fine green in colour,
tested, batched and packaged for delivery.
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