Marketing, supplies, Services, Financing
Sant Bernat Agricultural Cooperative has several facilities for specialized and personalized service in the different sectors of our company.
Available for all members and clients.
Warehouses and Marketing
We have 40,000 square metres of warehouses, with capacity for 37,500 cubic metres of cold storage and 15,000 cubic metres for ripening. We thus achieve a daily handling capacity of 400 mt of citrus fruits, 600 mt of summer fruits, 600 mt of kaki and 200 mt of watermelons. A workforce of more than 1,400 people is employed to handle this volume.
Experimental Field Station
The farmers with whom we work have always been highly dynamic and open to new challenges arising on a daily basis. Especially in fruit cultivation, changes are quick and adaptation to new plant material, or even the introduction of new cultivation techniques, raises several doubts, as the cultivation area and climatology varies a lot amongst production areas.
In 1995, the Experimental Field Station was created, as a result of the close collaboration amongst the Department of Agriculture, the former Carlet Savings Bank (now with the collaboration of the Fundación Caixa Carlet) and the cooperative itself.
The target goal is to be able to assess, in our climatic and geographical conditions, the main varieties and/or cultivation techniques that may be of interest for our farmers and that are taking place in other production areas, whether national or international. In order for the task of field tests to fulfil its purpose, all the information generated has to be conveyed to producer partners. In order to do so, a series of guided visits to the field tests is arranged, where the campaign data collected is conveyed: phenology, calibre, yields, performance improvements, post-harvest and handling data.
Credit Division
With over 4,300 partners, the primary role of the division is to meet the financial needs of its members and the Cooperative at all levels. The existence of this division provides the Cooperative and its partners with the financial stability and liquidity needed in order to continue to provide the requested services solvently and securely, thus being a support when facing agrarian structure improvement investment.
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Technical Office and Supplies
From the Supplies and Services Division, partners and clients are offered all of the required items and services in order to properly use its fields. We have all kinds of fertilizers and plant protection products, as well as tools and complementary items related to cultivation.
We are committed to respecting the environment, especially focusing on food safety; the technical department, whose offices are in the same unit, is also in charge of offering guidance on the authorized active substances, dosages and safety periods to always act according to strict Naturane-GlobalGap regulations.
Store and Service Station
Both the store, located in the cooperative facilities and boasting a wide range of products and a personalized customer service, and the service station, which has washing stations and a washing-drying tunnel, are some of the additional services available for our partners and all the local residents of Carlet municipality and its surrounding areas.
