Amy Amy Ramirez Canessa    
Executive Officer - Corporate Communications/Business Consultant, CCBSL  
     
In a world without limitless resources and with a growing global population, the importance of investment in food production cannot be overstated. As a business proposition, luxury raw food products are a particularly interesting area.
 
  With rapidly expanding economic and socio-economic growth in China and India and other developing countries, huge and rapid demographic shifts throughout the globe are leading to massive market demand for products that would have been out of reach to large parts of the world population until relatively recently.
 
 
In 1999 the Investors saw the potential for investment in food production. They realised that the high-growth market demand for almonds, coupled with a geographically limited supply, meant that investment in that sector in California was an exciting proposition.

Alpha Orchards Inc was established, and today owns and manages 3,217 acres of almond orchards in Glenn County, California in the US. 1,597 acres were planted in 1999, and the remaining 1,620 acres were planted between 2005 and 2006. The orchard produced c. 4.5 million Ibs in the 2010 crop year and production is expected to exceed 5 million Ibs once the orchards reach full maturity in 2011.