₱800,000 a month back in your pocket.From day one.

The Karnot Agri-Tech Centre is a 1-hectare integrated facility combining near-farm cold storage, tobacco curing barns, HydroGreen hydroponic fodder production and dairy CIP hot water — all powered by solar PV and Karnot natural-refrigerant heat pumps. Total CAPEX is approximately ₱27.1M (~USD 493K), including ₱7M for the 1-hectare land at ₱700/m². Annual revenue is approximately ₱20.1M, annual net profit ₱13.3M, payback ~2 years including land or ~1.5 years excluding land. Annual ROI: 65.5%. The model is from a live Karnot proposal to the Provincial Government of Pangasinan, March 2026.

Approximately ₱800,000 per month, net of the loan payment, from day one. The integrated centre generates ₱1.11M/month net profit before financing. With a green loan at ~7% p.a. over 60 months on the kit-excluding-land portion (~₱20M, 80% LTV), the monthly loan payment is approximately ₱320K. Net cash retained: ₱800K/month. Over the 15-year asset life of a single centre, total retained cash is approximately ₱181M.

Each centre serves a 30km radius and supports approximately 200+ smallholder farmers, fisherfolk and livestock operators. The cold storage uses a per-pallet Cooling-as-a-Service model — ₱120/pallet/day for chilled storage (5-13 °C for mangoes, vegetables, rice) and frozen storage (-18 °C for bangus, tilapia, meat). The iSAVE platform automates the billing based on actual pallet occupancy and storage duration. Post-harvest losses drop from 30-40% to under 5% — farmers sell at optimal market prices instead of accepting distress prices at harvest.

Traditional Virginia tobacco curing burns 5–8 cubic metres of firewood per barn per season, contributing to deforestation and producing inconsistent leaf quality. Karnot iHEAT R290 reversible heat pump barns deliver the precise three-stage curing profile — 35 °C yellowing, 55 °C colour fixing, 70 °C stem drying — at 60% lower energy cost than conventional electric curing. Zero firewood. Capacity: 15,000kg cured leaf per season per 2-barn cluster. Aligned with the National Tobacco Administration (NTA) modernisation programme.

HydroGreen is a climate-controlled hydroponic fodder production system. A 4,000m² centre grows 912,500kg of fresh, nutrient-rich fodder per year — supporting 208 head of cattle at 12kg/day. Karnot iHEAT R290 heat pumps manage the precise temperature and humidity needed for year-round fodder growth. Proven results: cattle finishing time reduces from 100 days to 79 days (21 days faster), milk yield rises, and feed cost drops 65-75% versus imported feed concentrates. The full vertical-pasture story is on the NearFarm page.

Karnot Feed-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a Philippine-first business model where Karnot owns the HydroGreen 5-pack vertical pasture system, the iHEAT R290 climate-control building, the iSTOR thermal battery, the iVOLT solar PV and the iSAVE billing platform — and the dairy farm or cattle operator simply pays per kilogram of fresh fodder delivered. ~₱16 per kg of fresh fodder, automatically billed via iSAVE based on actual harvest weight and delivery log. Per-head subscription is also available at about ₱125/head/day for 8 kg. Minimum 365-day off-take agreement; cancel any time on 90 days' notice. The farmer keeps the +9% NDF digestion uplift, the -21 day cattle finishing time, and the higher milk yield — without any CAPEX exposure, climate-control expertise requirement, or water reliability concern.

From the 2024 Karnot HydroGreen Animal Science Feed Trial (replicated pen study, n=40 Angus composite backgrounding beef cattle, May–August 2021): Daily Rate of Gain +11.4% (p=0.03), Dry Matter Intake +9% (p<0.001), Feed Conversion Ratio improved 12.5%, Cost of Gain reduced 10%, NDF Digestion +9.7%, Blood Urea Nitrogen +29% (p<0.001 — better protein metabolism). Confirmed at commercial scale in a 2022 Angus × Holstein dairy-beef cross study (n=462 head). Dairy translation per Oba et al., 1997: each 1% NDF gain = +0.5 lb milk per cow per day — so +9% NDF = ~+2.3 lb additional milk per cow per day. HydroGreen feed analysis: 22.4% DM, 15.7% crude protein, 49.2% water-soluble carbohydrates, 5.9 MJ/kg net energy of gain. The high WSC is what drives the rumen response. Full data in the HydroGreen Technical Brief download above.

Four options from the live Pangasinan proposal: (A) Provincial Co-Investment — province contributes land, Karnot provides technology and operations, revenue shared. (B) BOI/PEZA Registration Support — province facilitates BOI Income Tax Holiday and duty-free equipment imports under RA 11285, Karnot invests full capital. (C) Public-Private Partnership — formal PPP with provincial infrastructure support and joint steering committee. (D) Demonstration Agreement — province designates the project as an official Agricultural Technology Demonstration Site with policy support and farmer mobilisation. Karnot files all the paperwork — BOI registration, building permits, DOE ESCO accreditation, green-loan application.

Each iCOOL CO₂ cold storage unit is paired with an iSTOR PCM thermal battery — 38 kWh of stored cooling, 8–12 hours of passive cooling without any power input. PH brownouts and rural-grid outages don't compromise the cold chain. The iVOLT zero-export solar PV array feeds the centre during the day; iSTOR carries the cold side overnight; the grid is the backup, not the baseline. Off-grid capable. Rated for 1,500+ charge-discharge cycles without degradation.

Generic cold storage uses HFC refrigerants (R404A, R410A) with GWP 1,890–2,088 and faces a Montreal Protocol phasedown clock on the asset register. Karnot iCOOL CO₂ uses R744 natural refrigerant — GWP 1, A1 safety class, no phasedown risk. Validated by Oak Ridge National Laboratory at COP 4.2 at -5 °C, 40-60% energy savings over conventional HFC. Plus the integrated platform: the same machine that runs cold storage can be reversed to run tobacco curing barns (35-70 °C output), HydroGreen fodder climate, and dairy CIP hot water — three revenue streams from one kit, not one.

Karnot's Cosmos Farm Low-Carbon Innovation Centre is in Mapandan, Pangasinan — the Karnot agri operations base. Pangasinan combines all the structural conditions: top PH Virginia tobacco province, top agricultural exporter (rice, mangoes, fish, livestock), 44 municipalities, and an existing relationship between Karnot and the Provincial Government. The Pangasinan proposal (March 2026) is the prototype. Each of the 44 municipalities in Pangasinan can host one centre; each of the 17 PH regions has the same structural problems. Build cycle is 3–4 months per centre. The replication queue is large.