We are firmly committed to making our industrial and agricultural activities sustainable and environmentally friendly.

Servicios Agrarios de Pucallpa (SAP)

Permits

We have the Environmental Certification of the Peruvian State (EIA) issued by resolution N° 300-2019-PRODUCE/DVMYPE-I/DGAAMI, a key instrument that ratifies our commitment to comply with an environmental management program with the highest standards.

Likewise, we have all the other permits and authorizations required by national legislation, including authorizations from different institutions such as the Ministry of Culture and Production, the National Forest and Wildlife Service (SERFOR), the District Municipality of Nueva Requena, the National Water Authority (ANA), the Regional Health Department, among others.

Virtuous Circle and Monitoring

We manage the solid waste produced by our activity in accordance with the regulations set forth in the Law on Integral Management of Solid Waste. We have everything duly accredited with the documentation that supports an adequate landfill disposition by an operating company.

Our by-products and effluents from the extraction process return to the farms where our raw material comes from for the recirculation of nutrients. This reduces our water and fertilizer requirements, and increases the productivity of our crops.

Likewise, we use another part of the by-products in generating water vapor, the same we use in cogenerating electricity and in the industrial extraction processes of different oils.

Thus, we avoid using fossil fuels by reducing in 207 tons of fuel per month or 576 metric tons of greenhouse gases (GHG) not emitted into the environment.

We promote the participation of our neighboring communities in the flora and fauna monitoring, reporting these activities to the Environmental Assessment and Control Agency (OEFA) of the Ministry of the Environment of Peru.

Ocho Sur (OS)

Care of the Amazon Forest

We reaffirm our commitment to the care and preservation of the Amazon forest and our policy of non-expansion, so much so that, since the acquisition of the estates in 2016, we have not cultivated a single additional hectare of oil palm in them.

In our estates, logging and extraction of vegetation is prohibited. It is our policy to conserve and protect forested areas for the conservation of ecosystems and that these serve for the interconnection of species.

We also have prohibited, acquiring, offering, hunting and trapping wildlife specimens. To prevent such actions, we give talks to the staff on site, we place prevention and prohibition warnings, permanently monitoring and sanctioning with termination to those who fail to comply with this rule. This applies to the estates and surrounding areas.

Sustainable Agricultural Practices

In Grupo Ocho Sur estates, we carry out prevention and pest and diseases control in order to minimize the use of chemicals. We can do this by implementing integrated management of species in the form of pesticides or biological pest controllers.

For example, with the installation of owl and barn-owl sheds for rodent control. Also, with the acquisition of a biological controller from the National Agricultural Health Service (SENASA), called Trichogramma SPP, a parasitoid controller of defoliating larvae, specific to the cultivation of oil palm. Thus, we manage to prevent adverse effects on the soil and water bodies.

In our estates we do not apply restricted or prohibited agrochemicals categorized as such in accordance with the regulations set forth by SENASA. Also, we do not use agrochemicals within the Red category (extremely or highly hazardous) according to the Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard issued by the World Health Organization (WHO).

We comply with all environmental air and water quality standards. For this we perform air quality monitoring in order to verify the concentrations of particles less than 10 microns of nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide. We also monitor parameters concentration corresponding to the group of pesticides and total metals in water bodies.

We reaffirm our commitment to use renewable energy by switching to and using solar panels when generating electricity for our camp sites; reducing CO2 emissions and other greenhouse gases produced by the use of fossil fuels.