San Juan AgroExport is a family farming company founded in 1985 by the brothers Tulio García Morales and Víctor Hugo García Morales.
Taking advantage of exports increase, in 1992, was decided to re locate the facilities to the actual location.
Mission: We produce, process and sell competitive farm products of excellent quality, in an honest and responsible way guaranteeing the satisfaction of customers, producers, suppliers, collaborators and shareholders; in a framework of loyalty, respect and sustainability.
Vision: Consolidate leadership as a Guatemalan company that produces, processes and sells farm products in the United States and European markets.
As part of our philosophy we know the importance of seeking the common good of the community and society. To contribute to this we are governed by the following values:
We are a company founded in 1985 located in San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala. We work with groups of farmers who base their economy on agriculture, additionally, they use part of the land to plant corn and beans for family food and nutrition security. The main crops of San Juan Agroexport are: Snow Peas, Sugar Snap and French Green Beans.
Our success depends on an effective and efficient relationship with our clients and with our collaborators.
We promote the protection of the environment through integrated agricultural practices, such as better use of chemicals, crop rotation and proper waste management.
We believe and trust that the path to a better nation is to bet on education so we have three programs:
We strive to promote the socio-economic development of the country in a responsible and sustainable way.
Currently there are two health programs for the benefit of the San Juan AgroExport team.
San Juan Agroexport is proud to hold the values of his founders, all of them have led us to be an example for Guatemala in our way of forming and building a sustainable company that produces quality green vegetables and that beyond focusing our efforts on satisfaction of our customers inside and outside the country, we have focused on the development of each of the people that make up San Juan Agroexport; we will tell you a little about it
What is a sustainable company?
Sustainable companies are those that through concrete actions make improvements in their environment, in several factors such as: environment, corporate social responsibility, development in the members of the corporation and the family nucleus.
Mainly a sustainable company tirelessly seeks the effective and efficient use of its activities to achieve primarily high quality products, affordable costs by taking advantage of raw materials, avoiding waste from the focus on renewable environmental resources that impact on the economy and development social and local.
What programs does San Juan Agroexport have in its work as a sustainable company?
Currently we focus on three important pillars of social and environmental development to improve the conditions of our employees and society in general: Education, Health and Social Responsibility.
Education:
Accelerated primary education program: This program started 10 years ago and has allowed many of our collaborators to start and complete primary education in 3 years.
Basic Education Program: On October 28, 2013, we began a collaborative relationship with the Guatemalan Institute of Radio Schools (IGER) to open the basic cycle at the San Juan AgroExport facilities. To support this program, an economic investment was made for basic infrastructure.
Bachelor's Program in Sciences and Letters: In January 2017, the San Juan Agroexport Institute and the Guatemalan Institute of Radio Schools (IGER) once again united ties to inaugurate the Bachelor's Degree in Sciences and Letters with a duration of 2 years. San Juan AgroExport provided the investment for the benefit of our collaborators.
Health:
To ensure that our employees enjoy good health we have put at your disposal a preventive health program where they can have several services, as well as our dental clinic, in addition there have been medical days, deworming days and ophthalmological days.
Corporate social responsibility:
Our commitment to our collaborators is intimately linked with our community, that is why we share an alliance with the Juan Francisco García Comparini Foundation, with whom we have implemented various projects in which we have focused on transforming a large number of people into three major areas: Health, nutrition and housing.
All the actions that we undertake as a company will always be oriented to quality, efficiency and delivery to our clients and our country, because we are Guatemala, we are San Juan Agroexport.
In San Juan Agroexport our main priority is always to provide products with high quality standards, for this we use numerous processes that allow us to deliver the best green vegetables of the entire region.
Our products consist of 7 international certifications that demonstrate the delivery and quality of our products; we'll tell you what each one of them is about:
BRC Certification Body: The BRC Seventh edition of British origin bases the evaluation and certification of our processes based on: Management commitments, manufacturing processes, transparency and traceability of the chain and development of systems to reduce food fraud.
Nurture and Global G.A.P.: The Nurture module of the Global G.A.P with a presence in the United States and Germany is in charge of the standardization of certification systems and standards throughout the world to facilitate the standards of Good Agricultural Practices; San Juan Agroexport holds the "Gold" degree certificate in Chinese pea and Creole pea in grain according to the version 11.0 of the module.
Kosher Certification: This is a certificate issued by the certifying agencies and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, in which a Rabbi certifies that the products meet the biblical precepts of the Jewish religion.
The Hebrew word kosher (Kosher) means apt or appropriate, meaning that the products to which it refers are considered pure because they fulfill all the precepts of the Torah, specifically the Old Testament Leviticus.
This document is not only requested for Israel, but also for other countries where there is an important Jewish community that demands "kosher" products, as is the case of the United States, especially on the East Coast, United Kingdom, France, Russia, Argentina or Mexico.
USDA Organic / Maya Cert: Its operators are located in the southern region of Mexico, Central America and Colombia. MAYACERT, promotes for 20 years, the services of voluntary certification for small, medium and large agricultural producers, food processors and exporters.
Primus Lab: PrimusLabs is a global leader in food safety and has been serving the fresh produce industry for more than 2 decades. San Juan Agroexport has the BPM Packing audit with HACCP v14.09 that ensures the correct operation of manufacturing practices in vegetable packaging.
Sedex: The database provider Ethical Data Exchange is a global platform for the exchange of information on ethically sustainable production in the supply chain.
San Juan Agroexport has the SMETA certification that contains 4 important pillars: Health and safety, work standards, environment and business ethics.
Your safety is the most important:
Being able to ensure high quality and safe organic food is our commitment, so we will continue working with the highest certifications and standards at all times. For that reason and much more we are Guatemala, we are San Juan Agroexport.
