Idai Nature, a company that manufactures unique natural solutions for the cultivation of fruit and vegetables, without chemical residues, has inaugurated a new laboratory that will allow it to expand its capacity for innovation. During his speech, the company's CEO, Carlos Ledó, explained that the company is researching extracts of plants and minerals with bioinsecticidal activities in order to cure plants using plants.
"We are recovering ancestral agricultural methods and applying the technology of the present," pointed out Ledó, who emphasised that "this company has always made a great investment in technical and personnel resources for its laboratory; so much so, that its R&D budget is five times higher than the average of this sector."
He pointed out that a new step has been taken in this direction by inaugurating a new laboratory, fully upgraded, and with state-of-the-art instruments. "This great investment will allow us to expand our capacity for continuous innovation, to continue offering completely unique, natural solutions for agriculture," stressed Ledó.
The national and international expansion of this company is reflected in the great increase of its business volume. In the last two fiscal years, the billing has tripled, closing 2016 with a turnover of around 9 million Euro. The company's staff has grown from 23 employees in 2013 to about 80 in 2016 and expects to exceed 100 next year.
In recent years, the group has opened subsidiaries in Mexico, Algeria and Turkey, from where it supplies the demand from Africa and Russia. To these we must add the subsidiary opened last October in the United States.
"Our greatest challenge is to convey how important it is for our lives and for the environment to have a chemical residue-free agriculture," concluded Ledó during the inauguration.
The inauguration ceremony was chaired by the President of the Region of Valencia, Ximo Puig, who stressed that "Idai Nature is a fundamental part of the reputation of the Region of Valencia, which needs to look towards a more sustainable future," emphasising that the company has also committed itself to forging a sustainable link between modernization and the traditional sectors in order to give a boost to "an increasingly organic and higher quality agriculture."
The head of the regional government defended this move towards sustainability during his visit to the Valencian company, based in the Polígono Industrial Mas, in Tous. This company, devoted to the manufacture of natural solutions to grow fruit and vegetables without generating chemical waste, is, according to Puig "an example of the new paradigm of the Region of Valencia, which is based on innovation applied to traditional sectors."
In a similar line, Ximo Puig stated that Idai Nature has managed to unite "the primary sector, which is fundamental for Valencians, with the economy of innovation. It is a new economy that puts the Region of Valencia in a place that allows the creation of quality employment," reported sources of the regional government.
The president, who toured Idai Nature's facilities accompanied by the Councillor of Agriculture, Environment, Climate Change and Rural Development, Elena Cebrián, held a meeting with the company's management team, in which he expressed the Valencian Government's support, and subsequently inaugurated the company's new laboratory.
Puig also assured that the regional government is "convinced of the good future of Valencian agriculture," and noted that the sector "must know how to adapt to the new times and respond to the demands of a citizenship that is increasingly aware of food issues." That is why he encouraged us to look at the future with "energy, solvency and sustainability and to work towards being able to guarantee a healthy diet for everyone."
Source: agrodiario.com