Commited to the
Environment
Waste Management
We reduce the environmental mark
In Cuna de Platero we are committed to our environment so we responsibly manage our resources and waste by deciding to save energy and recycling.
Thus, we cooperate with the maintenance of our natural and social environment with a small mark.
- Agricultural plastic waste: we trust in local companies which are specialised in recycling process.
- Toxic waste:we put in charge of the management an authorised long-standing company like Antonio España e Hijos.
- Paper and cardboard: we give them back to Abriendo Puertas Association for reusing, by cooperating with their social project as well.
- Phytosanitary containers: they recieve an appropriate treatment for SIGFITO management system.
Efficient Use of Water and Other Resources
Along with the University of Córdoba, we have installed a high-precision irrigation system in the cultivation of strawberries. After five years of investigation we have tested our different irrigation systems for the cultivation of strawberries with our technicians and farmers, and as a result it is viable to considerably reduce the current consumption of water without affecting the crop yield and reducing economic and energy costs.
Now we share what we have learned by working with the farmers into a possible solution that may guarantee the future of cultivation of strawberries and marshes located in Doñana’s National Park.
Advantages:
- Lower environmental impact
- Decrease of the use of synthetic fertilizers
- Reduction of economic costs for our farmers
Food Chain
We cooperate with Bayer CropScience through the Food Chain Partnership programme, by establishing a management protocol of the 100% of our cultivations of strawberries in order to offer the final customer a more natural, healthier quality of the fruit and a consolidation of sustainable production dynamic, by updating treatments and having a strong commitment to pest control and plant diseases.
For this, the Bayer CropScience technical staff and Cuna de Platero are carrying out a comprehensive monitoring programme and upgrading treatments for the protection of fields, which are reinforced by several calibrations within an application machinery, and also the installation of anti-drift nozzles and traps for pest monitoring due to the use of biological products and quality treatments; besides, new rules of control are established by choosing active materials and biological products that exist in the market which guarantee a perfect sanitary state of fields and finally it is very important the use of solutions and principles of an Integrated Production.
For this, the Bayer CropScience technical staff and Cuna de Platero are carrying out a comprehensive monitoring programme and upgrading treatments for the protection of fields, which are reinforced by several calibrations within an application machinery, and also the installation of anti-drift nozzles and traps for pest monitoring due to the use of biological products and quality treatments; besides, new rules of control are established by choosing active materials and biological products that exist in the market which guarantee a perfect sanitary state of fields and finally it is very important the use of solutions and principles of an Integrated Production.
Advantages:
- Reduction of use of pesticides
- Best pest control and plant diseases
- Excellent fruit: more natural and healthier
- Economic, social and environmental sustainability
Zerya, a healthy food guarantee
Pioneers in the Zerya certification of strawberries, raspberries and blueberries
The Zerya quality brand, which is member of GlobalGAP and eventually part of the Sustainability Committee, guarantees food safety production by improving its consistence and useful life, and so its nutritional qualities by obtaining a more natural fruit as a result, free of any chemical residues and excellent quality.This protocol is based on nutritional studies of fruits and the rational use of treatments during their growth and ripening. This way it provides an added value to strawberries, raspberries and blueberries by guaranteeing a better quality and offering natural products to all the consumers. Thus, Cuna de Platero keeps on working in order to consolidate a sustainable company model, committed to consumers’ health and to a good atmosphere where its activity is developed, as it takes part in the Committee that Mesa Zerya leads in the business of berries.
Advantages:
- Certified food safety
- More consistent and long-lasting fruit
- More natural and free of any chemical residues
Fresh Picking
Continuous Improvement and Innovation (R&D)
We choose FreshPicking, the innovative fresh fruit pick-up system during high-temperature days in order to give an ideal solution to pick up our fruit in days like those. It is about the total quality model: when all the processes get accelerated our products get sooner to supermarkets, so the fruit does not get spoiled during harvesting time and needs less hours in the freezers before its handling, and that means an important energy saving.
Advantages:
- We make better quality and freshness of fruit
- Energy saving
- We improve our employees’ conditions
- We accelerate all the processes