Native Organics - Products from Nature
Our Targets
- To maintain and improve our production system, "The Green Cane Project", which has proven to be biodiversity-friendly. This system is still evolving towards creating better conditions for the evolution and expansion of the existing food web.
- To continuously monitor biodiversity in our organic farms through our partnership with Embrapa Satellite Monitoring, who have previously conducted a demographic survey on existing superior vertebrates.
Our Motivation
The Leadership Declaration is in accordance with our company's mission, which is to 'generate value through sustainable agriculture'.
Our Focus
Since 1982, we have implemented biological controls. Through our reforestation programme we already planted more than 1 million trees on our farms. We have developed a new production system, the Green Cane Project, based on green cane harvesting in contrast to traditional burnt cane harvesting. Our farms have now been converted to organic production.
In 2002, we hired a specialised team to raise an inventory of existing vertebrates on our farms. So far, we found 312 species, 245 of which are considered rare. The findings showed that the biodiversity on our farms is 23 times higher than on conventional sugarcane farms.
