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World Food Security Infrastructure

Unlike urban centers which have direct access to world food distribution networks, many rural and village areas of the world, especially among developing nations do not. Absent access to critical food distribution networks while also lacking basic agricultural infrastructure, the people living in such areas suffer enormously from nutritional depravity, illness and death. However beneficial Sweet White Lupin may be for our diets in developed nations, a much bigger bonus is promised for those countries which cannot afford huge expenditures of fuel for the costly processing of high protein meal and transport of seed to and from processing mills. Sweet White Lupin is an exceptional food reserve for isolated areas and could prove an important resource for creating sustainable micro-farms on a localized level. As a result, the potential impact of the product on struggling Third World countries is dramatic. Many experts, including World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and United Nations officials, have pointed to the critical role that low cost, sustainable agriculture will play in the creation of employment, the generation of cash crops, the production of critical food inventories, products for export and for local consumption, and the gradual stabilization of fragile governments and their economies.

A system of country grain elevators, which store Lupins for sale into the world trade market through the International Lupin Exchange, can also support a World Food Security System for a Third World Country. High-protein Lupin products stored in strategic locations in developing nations, pending sale into the world trade market, can serve as a food reserve which may be readily diverted to meet a Third World country's emergency food needs. When not used in such a way, these products serve as a much needed source of hard foreign currency.

Soybeans require fertile soil, costly factories and equipment, expensive heat processing, high fuel costs and transportation to and from processing facilities. Poor countries can no more afford to grow soybeans or other intensive, high maintenance food crops than they can afford to purchase their costlier end-products. Sweet White Lupin minimizes production costs by growing in marginal soils, requires no processing plants or fuels, and little, if any, transportation especially if grown for local use. Lupin, a low maintenance crop, can be grown, ground into high-protein meal or micro-ground into the highest protein flour of any grain. Furthermore, Sweet White Lupin can be grown almost anywhere wheat can be grown, with the promise of being planted or harvested somewhere in the world during every month of the year.

Sweet White Lupin produces more protein per acre than all other grain crops, including the soybean. Sweet White Lupin can yield as much as 20 times more protein per acre than a beef or cattle ranch. A newcomer to the world and to Third World considerations, costing countless millions of dollars to develop is High Lysine Corn, genetically bred in order to feed famine stricken people who face death by starvation. High Lysine Corn has been proven effective against certain critical nutritional deficiencies and is in ever increasing demand. Sweet White Lupin is generally three to four times higher in precious Lysine than High Lysine Corn and, once discovered, will be in far greater demand. Thus, another important market for the Company is the sale and distribution of Sweet White Lupin seeds through local, national and international relief agencies, in efforts to attack the problem of world hunger by providing a basis for and contributing to the creation of a modern agricultural infrastructure. Local food warehouses and grain elevator storage facilities could play a major role in contributing to a World Food Security System, serving as insurance against difficult times.

Should a Third World country desire to establish such a system of Food Security, Regional Clearing Firms would analyze weather and soil conditions in that country and contract local growers to grow Sweet White Lupin on its behalf, even though that country does not possess wheat producing areas or an infrastructure for the processing of oilseeds. Such an infrastructure is not required for the Sweet White Lupin bean.

The U.S. Mainland and Hawaii are proven locations for the successful production of Sweet White Lupin. The Company is currently field testing in Cameroon and Zimbabwe, Africa, in Costa Rica and in Malaysia. The Government of Cameroon has offered up to 100,000 hectares (250,000 acres) and a labor force of 30,000 people, seeking to create employment, for the growing of Sweet White Lupin for world trade and cash export purposes. Currently, at least eleven sites are under cultivation in Costa Rica, supervised by the government and agricultural ministry. The Costa Rican Government has designated 5,500 acres for Sweet White Lupin farming early in 1999, with 88,000 acres identified for a second growing season. The Costa Rican Government is additionally interested in coordinating up to 1,500,000 acres of Sweet White Lupin for a third growing season, which will include farmland in several surrounding Central American countries with whom it enjoys exceptional peaceful and political relationships. If current tests continue their successful course, Regional Clearing Firms will contract up to 1,500,000 acres by the end of 2002, for production and sale into the World Trade Market. Northern Midwest U.S. growers will continue to produce an annual Sweet White Lupin base crop for international seed multiplication and for trade in the world market.

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