Peralba – Executive Summary

1. This is an area of about 2700 hectares (equivalent to 6300 local tarefas or 6660 acres), 87 Km South of Salvador (45 nm in line-of-air), Bahia, Brazil, with a center at these geographic coordinates: 13° 10 ‘ S-39 01 16.97 ‘ 34.98 W (limited approximately to the East 13th 09 ‘ S-38 58.61 59 ‘ W, to the South 13 52.53 12 ‘ S-39 19.94° 02 ‘ W, West 17.82 13 11 ‘ 03 S-08.24 39 ‘ W, 45.42 and North 13th 07 ‘ S-39º 05 28.94 ‘ 0.96 W 19-can be viewed in Google Earth: Include here the .KMZ file from Google Earth that allows you to go directly to the farm)

It has comfortable accommodation in three large houses (one with even a small port that leads to the Ocean through the mangroves), all with water, electricity and easy access; nine worker houses, scattered around the farm, are easily accessible and all with modern amenities.

6. A planting of 32 hectares of coffee selected Robust (genetically 72%) and Arabic (28%), served by a 240 m2shed, a terrace of 200 m2, three wood-fired dryers (of our eucalyptus), warehouse for 50 tons of dried coffee, and 12 ton. Green grain, a potato peeler three tons/Hour.

It has two offices that are equipped , one on the farm and another in Salvador, connected via internet; every manager has a laptop supplied and serviced by WiFi links with routers (at home, in the Office and headquarters in the Packing House); the area is communication through cellular phones.

There is easy access to all areas, by two state highways, the BA001, which limits the farm from North to South, and the road of Palma, which cuts from East to West; numerous and large internal streets reach all the relevant places of the farm (protected areas are in the primal State and have a difficult access)

Planting of 186 hectares of lemon Tahiti, of which 35.6 in super-dense regime; the plantation has GlobalGAP certification, is fully interconnected by internal roads, and enjoys more than adequate storage facilities for equipment, water, production and personnel.

The farm has several other crops, most short/medium term: passion fruit (35Ha.), eucalyptus (for coffee, 35Ha.), watermelons (32ha), Palm fibre (40 ton/year), cocoa (5Ha); we’re getting out of the business of cattle and we have even created two pens, electronic scales, breech and cargo bays.

Approximately 2,100 Ha. of primary rainforest -future APA (Environmental protection area), was isolated and protected in the past ten years for a project of cultural eco resort; the area of the House that project has already been reserved in a stunning location in the early times of the continental shelf, with 210 degree view of the Ocean: you can see Salvador (12 minutes by helicopter to the international airport and a day served by our airport!) , Morro de São Paulo, and in the marshland, the farm can be accessed by the Ocean through mangroves and two huge rivers-the Rio Dona and Jaguaripe … and from there to the ocean.

There is easy access to all areas, by two state highways, the BA001, which limits the farm from North to South, and the road of Palma, which cuts from East to West; numerous and large internal streets reach all the relevant places of the farm (protected areas are in the primal State and have a difficult access)

A 1120 m 2 processing factory (also with GlobalGAP certification) as Packing House for processing, selection and lemon for export packaging: a trading company, the HOOPS TRADING CO., will be operating in the Netherlands and distributes throughout Europe with our brands: Forest Green and Peralba; to achieve export quality, the machines are modern, with refrigerators (two of 42 m2 each) , docking bay, an emergency generator 30KVA, artesian well, kitchen, refectory, infirmary, all to suit 40 + workers.

A machine shop equipped with a large warehouse, to provide maintenance to the agricultural implements, tractors, sprayers, trucks, cars and motorcycles: the goal is to ensure 100% utilization.

It has a Team of professionals experienced, organized in management of: Lemon Grove, supervision of coffee, Packing House, planning and controls, quality and administration; the team is led by a Manager with 40 years of experience in plantations of lemon, supported by an expert external agronomist.