The preparation of our products is rooted in the Sicilian gastronomic heritage and they are produced according to original recipes. Our aim is to bring forward good food and to be the custodians of a food culture in Sicily: this is possible thanks to a synergy of features that Agrofood Srl undertakes to harmonise and dose, in a successful mix of history, gastronomy, beauty of the landscape, traditions, habits and agricultural culture of the people.
Passion for quality is the common thread in all of our activities, from the selection of our suppliers to the marketing, from packaging to after-sales service. Quality is a vocation we cultivate with care and that grants us our consumers’ trust and market leadership. Our company policy induces us to keep alive traditions and processing methods that conceal very old secrets, but at the same time, pushes us to look towards the future.
The local environment of Agrofood Srl is the “Valle del Belice” (Belice Valley), the main production of which is the cultivation of one of the most famous and most known Italian cultivars in the world, the PDO “Nocellara del Belice”. The olives of this variety are characterised by a good flesh to stone ratio, the drupe is big with a deep green colour, the flesh is crunchy and easily detachable from the stone, the colour is deep green and the taste is slightly sweet-and-sour with a slight touch of spicy and bitter. The production of Agrofood Srl olives is carried out, according to the disciplinary standards, with absolutely organic farming techniques: mechanical tillage, fertilisation and organic phytosanitary treatment, yearly trimming, a simple system of irrigation, along with all other compliant techniques with the up-to-date agronomic guidelines.
Searching for ever higher quality standards, food safety, utmost seriousness, professionalism and customer’s satisfaction are the targets we aim at every day, always preserving the centuries-old traditions of our land. Agrofood Srl has always been a cutting-edge firm from a technological and productive point of view and constantly tries to improve, to reduce timescales and meet the final customer’s needs. Daily combining constant technical innovation and the most genuine Sicilian gastronomic tradition with the aim of providing our customers with very high quality products only: this is the path that Agrofood Srl has traced and that has always followed. Agrofood Srl strongly believes in sustainability, intended as the respect for nature’s own timetable: only by following the rhythm of Nature we can produce healthy products of outstanding quality; for this reason the olives we purchase are collected in the proper season and from local producers.
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BRC certification aims at guaranteeing that branded products are produced according to well-defined quality standards in accordance with the quality and health and hygiene safety of the product; it is a basic prerequisite to be able to export our own products and proves quality and company reliability.
The main features are: the implementation of good practices, a HACCP system, a documented quality management system, the control of the standard for working areas, for the product, for the personnel, together with appropriate specifications for raw material, finished product, supplier’s verification, hygiene standards, etc.
IFS certification is acknowledged in the food industry to guarantee safety and quality of products and processes of the processed goods in order to ensure compatibility and transparency for the entire supply chain, with advantages both for the production and the marketing sectors.
The main features are: the implementation of good practices, a HACCP system, a documented quality management system, the control of the standard for working areas, for the product and the process and the personnel.
An internationally valid certification concerning quality management system and applied to all business processes, from marketing to purchase management, to production, etc; the aim is to make sure the product provided by the firm is compliant with the requirements of the legislation and certified by a dedicated authority.
The international ISO 9001 standard outlines the methods to achieve high performances by implementing processes able to improve efficiency at every level.
It is a hygiene own-checks system in public spaces and food industries; it requires businesses to make sure all processing stages, from preparation to delivery, are hygienically completed; it represents an efficient production process control method.
Key points of this system are: risk determination and assessment, critical control points determination, establishing critical limits, establishing monitoring procedures, corrective actions planning, establishing verification and record keeping procedures.
Organic agriculture is a production method that respects human and animal well-being and defends the environmental and cultural biodiversity of the land: it is a sustainability model aimed at preserving the environment and the land and enhancing the quality of the resources of local communities, helping them to face the global competition.
It is the first industry certification to provide traceability of the raw material and of the finished product, guaranteeing product quality and customer protection and stands for reliability and guarantee both on national and international markets.