Over the years, the market and consumers have strongly asked for greater attention to crucial aspects of food security, respect for environment, sustainability and workers security. Hence, the company has decided to state these objectives and has started a path which has taken it, up today, to achieve important goals, certifying its own production fields and products with respect to international standards GLOBALG.A.P., LEAF MARQUE and TESCO NURTURE.
GLOBALG.A.P.
The Protocol Global GAP, wanted by a visionary group of operators of Retail Chains and representatives of groups of European producers, has established itself as a key reference for the application of Good Agricultural Practices (G.A.P.) on the global market, transferring and interpreting consumer demands into requirements for agricultural production.
The key elements of this standard regard the following aspects:
- Worker health, security and welfare;
- Environment protection and conservation;
- Waste and business residuals management and reuse;
- Traceability;
- Conscious GMO and propagation material management;
- Soil and fertilization management;
- Water resources and irrigation management;
- Cultivation integrated defense and correct pesticide use;
- Product collection and manipulation in controlled quality conditions.
Consulting the DATABASE on the official website of GLOBAL G.A.P. it is possible to verify real-time the certification state of products introducing our GGN or downloading here our certificate.
GLOBALG.A.P. Risk Assessment on Social Practice
GRASP stands for GLOBALG.A.P. Risk Assessment on Social Practice, and is a voluntary ready-to-use module developed to assess social practices on the farm, addressing specific aspects of workers’ health, safety and welfare.
LEAF MARQUE
LEAF is the acronym of Linking Environment And Farming.This standard, wanted and realized by a forward-looking work group, composed of farmers, consumers, ecologists, representatives from the food sector, institutions and universities, sketches a method to cultivate respecting environment.
It is a protocol promoting a responsible and environmentally respectful agriculture in all his forms, and farmer and local communities awareness of environmental problems.
This is the reason why the company, adhering to this standard, has stated the aim to look in a respectful way to environment and territory, particularly known for its fertility and generosity, combining production and market demands and environmental sustainability, through the promotion, safeguard and protection of natural habitats and wild flora and fauna, the optimization of water and energetic resources, the reduction, recycling and reuse of waste, agricultural good practices, the focused and rational use of pesticides and products to feed plants, the detection and predilection for methods of biological struggle, work security and the hygiene of food.
Every year, the company organizes and promotes different “open days” through active communication channels with local communities, so to welcome visitors to a pleasant walk in the fields, in order to show to anyone who wants to participate, the results of a great job and the capacity to realize agricultural products in an eco-friendly way.
Next Open Day
TESCO NURTURE
TESCO Nurture is a private standard from a well-known UK GDO, and it is addressed only to the providers of this distributive chain and, specifically, to the producers of fruit and vegetables.
The standard, with three levels of certification (GOLD, SILVER and BRONZE), promotes and asks for the application of Agriculture Good Pratice integrated with aspects of Worker Security and Health, Food Hygiene and Security, environment and flora and fauna respect, Reduction and reuse of waste and contaminants, rationalization and optimization of water and non-renewable resources. It is ages since our company adhered, answering to a specific demand of its consumers, obtaining a Silver level of certification.
SEDEX
Our company is registered on the SEDEX platform
SEDEX is neither a standard or a code of conduct or a certification. It is a non-profit organization whose task is to persuade distribution chains to improve more and more aspects of ethics of work. It is the biggest platform used to share data of professional ethics of supply chain, useful to share and display information about regulation on work, health and secutiry, environment and professional ethics. It is the biggest one. Sedex is a real globlal organizazione, accounting with members in more than 150 countries.
For further information: http://www.sedexglobal.com/about-sedex/
BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT
To answer to the demands of more and more complex markets and of more and more demanding consumers, even participating at commissions for regional and national certification, our company has adhered also to the certification of Biological Product. It is the first certification of supply chain “from the land to the table” which ensures the traceability of raw materials and finished product, guaranteeing the quality of the products and protection of consumers. The BIO certification is a synonym of reliability and guarantee both in national and international markets.
FIELD TO FORK
Our company is consistent with some production standard belonging to important distributive chaind and particularly to Mark & Spencer Field to Fork, a business to business, second part scheme of certification, whose aim is not to declare the peculiarities of a product but to guarantee about its hygiene and security. For further information: http://www.marksandspencer.com/Farmers-Our-Sourcing-About-Our-Food-Food-In-Store-Food-Wine/b/46524031