Villa Andina

"Our business model is to be both a socially and a rurally responsible enterprise. We get actively involved with the rural farming communities, we participate in their festivals, we know personally each one of the more than 5,000 farmers we work with, and we have identified each plot or field that provides product to our processing plant. Each week, we visit each community to collect the harvested crop that has complied with our required standards of quality, and this selected raw material -be it fruits, tubers or grains- is taken to our processing plant. We have a complete portfolio of products that are processed using different manufacturing procedures. For each of these, the raw materials are paid for punctually, with Fair Trade prices, in accordance with annual contracts. We provide additional free technical assistance, monthly training programs, financial support, and also cover the costs of organic certification, logistical and other miscellaneous expenses."