The document discusses characteristics of a proposed snail farm, including its ownership structure and the products it will sell. It then discusses the business of snail farming, noting that snails can be used for food or cosmetics. Snails sell for 8-12 euros per kilo for food and their slime is used in cosmetics. The document also discusses snail biology, including different types of snails, their feeding, habitats, anatomy, reproduction, lifecycles, and predators. It proposes locating the farm near a river in Loja for optimal conditions and notes some benefits of investing in a snail farm, such as low startup costs and lack of competition. The idea for the farm came from online

2. Characteristics of the company.
 The farm will be a limited and consists of four owners, two
of whom are workers in the company, the other two workers
only provide the capital to run the farm. The workers
needed for the farm are: a cleaner, an administrative, two
carers and a vigilant.
 The products that we sell are live snails for food use, without transformations or
processes intermediaries; snails go directly from the countryside to the
restaurants.

3. The business of snail farms.
 Some have seen in the snail an opportunity to exit the crisis.
Others, a growing business that, although slow, almost always
gets positive results.
 the snail can be used for lunch or for cosmetic:
- In general snail meat is highly prized in the table to be
nutritious and cheap. The kilo price ranges between 8 and 12
euros. So are eggs, known as caviar white.
In France, for example, the snail spread is a whole delicatessen
product.
- However, the cuisine is not the only way out is the snail on the
market. The snail slime is also demanded by cosmetics companies
by the multiple properties that have proven skin.

4. The business of snail farms.
 The snail farming is known as helicicultura. Today, 90% of
the snails consumed in Spain come from abroad, mainly from
Morocco.
 What is the difference between a snail eats and another
dedicated to cosmetics?
The snail breeding on the same farm, the difference is that
the snail is eaten, must be fully forming and should be hard
and tough. Meanwhile, in the snail goes for cosmetics, whose
only importance is the slime, nothing happens if the shell is
chipped. Neither the size, size or age are critical.

5. Snail’s biology.
TYPES OF SNAILS
Types of Land Snails:
 -Giant African Land Snail – Achatina fulica
The Giant African land snail is a large species native of East Africa, but it has been
widely distributed to other parts of the world.
 -Garden Snail – Helix aspersa
Snails are quite plentiful in the world so it shouldn’t come as a surprise to learn they
are found in very diverse habitats.
 -Roman Snail – Helix pomatia
The anatomy of a snail is very different from many other animals in the world. Some
people find them to be fascinating while others thing they are ugly.

6. Snail’s biology.
SNAIL INFORMATION
-Snail Feeding
Snails tend to feed on a variety of items found in their natural habitat. What they will actually consume
depends on where they live and the species of snail that they are.
-Snail Habitat
Snails are quite plentiful in the world so it shouldn’t come as a surprise to learn they are found in very diverse
habitats.
-Snail Anatomy
The anatomy of a snail is very different from many other animals in the world. Some people find them to be
fascinating while others thing they are ugly.
-Snail Reproduction
If you are entering into the wild world of snails, you will also begin to notice that the way in which they are
built has allowed for their survival through centuries.
-Snail Lifecycle
The reproduction process of the snail is one that has some unusual patterns to it when compared to that of
other land animals.
-Snail Predators
One of the main reasons why snails die is due to becoming a meal for other animals. We all know that snails are
extremely slow creatures so they definitely aren’t going to be able to out run other animals in the wild.

7. Location.
 For all above arguments, we have decided to find suitable location tu set up our snail
farm in all required conditions in our city, Loja it’s region has optimal conditions in the
surrounding areas of the Genil river,where we find

8. Why invest in a snail farm?
- First, you don't need too much money to invest, because for example the snail food
is cheap, the only thing expensive would be the field.
- There is hardly snails farms, then there isn't competition, sometimes even it have
bought to foreign farms.
- You can work on other activities, because there isn't much time to devote.
- In Andalucia can breed the snails for good weather.

9. From where we get the idea?
 We saw on the internet that the snail farm could be a good proposal because it
is profitable.
 We saw on the TV program.