By Krzysia Brzozowska on Unsplash
Invest in B2C businesses involved in sea buckthorn tree plantations and that manufacture products using sea buckthorn. Enterprises operating in this space primarily focus on supply of raw material as well as manufacturing of value added products such as pure sea buckthorn oil and juice, which are two main semi-processed export-oriented products. These products are exported to countries such as Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Additionally, there is focus on exporting products such as sea buckthorn oil, demand for which is increasing, especially in European markets. Examples of companies active in this space are:
Uvs Food JSC, founded in 1942, started manufacturing products using wild seabuckthorn since 1973. They established a seabuckthorn processing plant in 2010 with modern equipment that has the capacity to process 10 tons of fruit per day. 99.8 percent of the total company share is owned by a single person, as of February 2023.
Doctor Tseg LLC started planting seabuckthorn on 3 ha of land in Uvs province in 2005 and has been preparing seabuckthorn, currant, willow, poplar, elm, and larch seedlings since 2008. To date, about 250,000 seedlings have been prepared and delivered to individuals and organizations. Besides seedlings, they also produce seabuckthorn juice and oil.
Ulzii Nuur LLC was founded in 2008 to grow and sell crops, vegetable seeds, trees, and seedlings. It built a 1.5-hectare fenced orchard, planted 35,000 seabuckthorn and currant seedlings per year, and planted 1,000 seabuckthorn trees. They produce high-quality seabuckthorn oil, juice, jam, and soap as well as juice and jam from currant, cranberry, blueberry, and supply them to domestic and foreign markets.
Reduce national food insecurity by enabling more high-quality domestic sea buckthorn in the market and reduce GHG emissions by planting more its trees
