Organic leaders target ambitious sustainable goals
- Organics/Sustainability
- Tropical
- Peru
- Spain
- Suitzerland
- The Netherlands
- Fairtrasa
- Haciendas Bio
- La Grama Peru
- Setas Meli
- Footprint Initiative
- ginger
- Peppers
- regenerative agriculture
- social responsability
- Stone Fruit
- tropical fruit
HaciendasBio, works towards zero plastics
The largest Spanish producer of organic produce is immersed in work to eliminate plastic packaging in response to demand from retail customers to replace it with cardboard punnets despite their lower capacity to preserve freshness and their higher cost. HaciendasBio owns some 100 ha of vegetable greenhouses in Almeria and the Canary Islands. In Extremadura, the firm has 650 ha of organic peach, plums, table grapes and mandarins, along with the more recent addition of cherries (9 ha), flat nectarines and kiwi. HaciendasBio supplies all of Europe as well as Latin America (Brazil), the US and Canada, the Gulf (Dubai) and Southeast Asian markets. The group ensures full traceability and complies with various organic protocols such as BioSuiss and Demeter.
Setas Meli, targets 1,300 tons of mushrooms in 2023
Setas Meli is the leading producer of organic mushrooms in Castilla-La-Mancha. In 2022, the firm marketed 400 tons of organic and 450 tons of conventional mushrooms. Setas Meli’s objective in 2023 is to reach 1,300 tons of mushrooms thanks to an increased production area of 43,000 m2. The cultivation rooms are managed in the most sustainable way possible, using solar energy and reusing 100% of the sub-products as substrate. Setas Meli is run by the third generation of the Mondéjar family, which started out in 1972 with a small mushroom crop and making their own compost in the traditional way. Later, in 1985, Melitón Mondéjar built a warehouse as one of the pioneers in the Manchuela area. Since 1999, Setas Meli has also offered consumers individual boxes for home production in a very simple and fun way.
