Offtake Agreement (CEA)
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An offtake agreement is a pre-construction commitment from a buyer — retailer, foodservice, or processor — to take a specified volume of CEA output at an agreed price for a defined term. Recent industry post-mortems name it as the missing pattern in most failed vertical farms.