Sustainability
Our TRUST program
Our sustainability practices
When vegetables are your core business, thinking green is essential. Working with and close to nature, we implement long-term, structural solutions that improve our environmental performance.
Continously monitoring the condition of our terroirs, energy use, resource management, and emissions, we seek maximum compatibility with what nature provides.
Crop's TRUST program
Commitment to sustainability goals is essential for Crop’s. It defines our business model, partnerships, way of working, and even the way we design our facilities. At Crop’s, we aim to set standards that not only meet current industry regulations but go beyond them. Our focus is on consistently finding innovative ways to reduce the environmental impact across our entire supply chain. Since we control every step of our products’ journey—from seed to table—we keep sight of the bigger picture.
Our approach to sustainable growth is called TRUST and is built around three pillars:
- Future
- Food
- People
The story of harmony - Belgium
Our flagship environmental initiative focuses on restoring the Haut-Geer nature reserve in Belgium’s historic agricultural region. By partnering with Natagora and Apligeer in 2014 we revived the decaying sedimentation reservoirs left unmanaged after a local beetroot refinery closed.
Reviving the 26-hectare area near our fields and factory required diverse expertise to harmonize the natural conditions with our activity, including responsible water management.
Today, Haut-Geer thrives as a natural reserve with over 212 bird species, becoming an ornithological paradise and a biodiversity success story.
We've also integrated a smart water purification system into our production flow. After cleaning and blanching vegetables, we purify wastewater to irrigate fields in the growing season and supply Haut-Geer’s reservoirs in winter.
An on-site biomethanisation facility, designed to convert waste into renewable energy, utilizes vegetable waste and sludge from the wastewater treatment. It also valorises the biogas extracted from the wastewater.
In combination with the energy generated by the solar panels floating on one of our water storage basins, the production site is 95% self-sufficient. An additional advantage of the biomethanisation process is that residual heat can be used as steam to blanch vegetables within our factory. This reduces gas consumption by up to 25%.
State-of-the art production facility - Spain
We are dedicated to transforming towards renewable energy sources and working together with nature to maintain the land and promote biodiversity. Our Spanish factory stands out as a proud example of these activites.
Harnessing solar energy, so abundant in the Extremadura region, we have installed photovoltaic panels in the fields and on factory grounds.
The factory also features an independent water purification system and advanced water management solutions within our fields. Drip irrigation, combined with weather stations, satellite imagery, and soil sensors, has reduced water usage by over 15% in our pepper crops.
