The
Sultan Farm is located at 52 km from Cairo, along the desert road to Alexandria.
It has a cultivable area of around 1000 Hectar , all desert land.
The farm
is located inside the western desert, quite far from any source of pollution.
The nearest road with asphalt is at about 5 kilometres from the farm.
The conversion
to organic agriculture started on 1996, on the total farm area, in compliance
with the European Regulation 2092/91 and following the IFOAM recommendations.
Our Certification Body conforms to the EN ISO 45011 rule.
The
crops:
Fields
are cultivated according to a wide crop rotation. Emphasis is put on alternating
leguminous crops, both cash and green manuring crops, with non-leguminous
crops, in order to get the greatest benefits from rotating different species
in the same field, and to maximise nitrogen fixation too.
All the
farm land, including greenhouses, is efficiently irrigated by a drip system;
water is pumped from five deep wells and distributed to each field. The
wide crop rotation arranged, the dense ecological infrastructure made up
by the fence of Casuarina trees - together with the isolated conditions
of the farm - result in a very low occurrence of pest and diseases.
In Sultan
Farm, all the basic facilities to carry out post-harvest operations are
present. State-of-the-art cold stores, protected sorting and packing areas,
equipment and logistics are arranged in such a way as to ensure freshness
and a prolonged shelf-life of the produce after transporting overseas.
Packing
tipologies and materials are chosen according to the client requirements.
The
quality control :-
Research & Development,
analysis and documenting are the most important department of our quality
assurance program .
Investigation of
raw material according to specific methods, and the standards of EEC regulation
and the organic lows.
Pharmacopoeias are
also self –evident, as are tests for contamination, such as micro-organisms,
plant protective agents, heavy metals, or aflatoxins .
Our laboratory also
prepares files for official licenses to manufacture plants products and
supports our customers .