La producción agrícola siempre tiene la desventaja de ser el menos favorecido dentro de la cadena de distribución y venta, por lo que muchos desestiman la agricultura como un negocio de alta rentabilidad por lo que las certificaciones de fruta de exportación son importantes.
Sin embargo, una de las pocas formas de agregar valor a la fruta sin incurrir en procesamiento, es decir sin incursionar en negocios adicionales dentro de la cadena de valor o sea la venta de productos procesados es obtener certificados para frutas como limón Tahití, arándanos u otras frutas que se venden al cliente final en fresco.
Certifications are close related to a export project because generally the only markets who pays for them are developed countries as USA, Canada, Japan, Europen Union and lately China.
Likewise, and certified export operation requires a projected volume of fruit to produce in 20 tons multiple of fresh fruit.
Las certificados de fruta de exportación en general le permiten a una empresa productiva contar con las siguientes ventajas
- The fruit automatically increases its value without the need of processingThe same fruit but certified. So much so that organic fruit is valued around 2 to 3 times
- Is much easier to sell. The commercialization of certified fruit makes much easier to sell it and happens that fruit with no certifications at all cannot be exported.
- The profits of a farm that produces certified fruit (social or organic), is far higher to a conventional production farm.The Internal Return Rate (IRR) in organic production easily reaches a 40%
A continuación mencionamos una lista de los certificados de fruta exportación que son factibles implementar para mercados de USA y Europa.
- GLOBAL G.A.P: Its name means Global Good Agricultural Practices, wich fundamentals are the safety and traceability
- Organic USDA:: Es el estándar orgánico para frutas cuyo destino son los Estados Unidos de América (USA) e implica que la fruta debió ser producida con prácticas adecuadas de protección al medio ambiente, a los trabajadores de la finca y/o planta y a la fruta cuya residualidad de más de 435 pesticidas debe ser igual a cero.
- Organic EU: Es el estándar europeo prácticamente igual que el estándar para los Estados Unidos de América.
- GRASPis a Global G.A.P. add-on for the evaluation of workers' well-being at farm level. It covers four major social responsibility topics: workers' voice, human and labor rights information, human and labor rights indicators, and child and young workers' protection.
- Rain Forest AllianceThe Rain Forest Alliance standard is a very complete standard, since to hold this seal, requirements for safety, traceability, environmental protection, protection of biodiversity and application of very well implemented social standards must be met.
Many times the profitability of agricultural projects loses points because there is a lack of knowledge in the implementation of these standards. Consult us for more information and to help you improve the profitability of your project with certifications already implemented or new projects that you want to know about their feasibility and the impact of these standards.