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VIVEROS ALCANAR S.A.T. was founded in 1969 in the city of Alcanar (Tarragona, Spain). Its production regions are mostly located to the north of Castellón and to the south of Tarragona, with these two areas serving as the largest producer and supplier of certified citrus seedlings in the whole of the Iberian Peninsula.

The regional climate and soil conditions, combined with the company’s many years of experience passed down through the generations, have made it possible to produce seedlings with excellent characteristics, ensuring their future replanting will be a guaranteed success.

This concerted effort has consolidated VIVEROS ALCANAR S.A.T’s position as Spain’s largest producer of citrus seedlings and one of the largest in the world.

Origins

Since its founding, VIVEROS ALCANAR S.A.T. has opted for seedlings of the highest quality and materials of guaranteed health, actively collaborating with all of the Valencian and Catalan official administrative bodies, which conduct assessments and provide the certificates required to ensure that the seedlings meet all of the requirements established by the administrations.

Nurserymen

VIVEROS ALCANAR S.A.T. is also part of nursery association AVASA (Agrupación de Viveristas de Agrios) committed to researching and introducing new varieties of citrus fruits, collaborating with the Valencian Institute of Agricultural Research (IVIA) in order to obtain the best results from plant materials and to ensure maximum control of these results, to be transmitted to farmers as safely as possible.

Certificates

At present, GLOBALG.A.P. has become the leading worldwide standard in good agricultural practices and certification programme ensuring that consumer requirements are reflected in agricultural production in over 100 countries across all five continents. The EUREPGAP standards help producers comply with Europe-wide accepted criteria for food safety, sustainable production methods, worker and animal welfare, responsible water consumption, compound feed for animals and plant propagation materials.

The Tesco NURTURE standard is a requirement for producers who supply Tesco with fresh fruit and vegetables, ensuring the best agricultural practices in the production of fresh products. The standard relies on producers’ ability to demonstrate that products are grown and handled so as to comply with the requirements set out in the regulation, and in an environmentally responsible way. Obtaining the certificate is an advantage in meeting Tesco customers’ high demands. The scheme belongs to Tesco plc, and is exclusively restricted to producers who supply Tesco stores in the United Kingdom.

Citrus production, control and certification program

The programme for certifying citrus seedlings features a set of legal regulations, the periodical holding of diagnostic tests for harmful organisms and diseases along with a series of inspections during the various phases of propagation in nurseries, ensuring plants’ clonal origins and guaranteeing the authenticity of varieties and overall health. Those to benefit from the certification programme are mainly farmers and as a consequence, the citriculture of country. The official body in each autonomous community is responsible for the control and certification of seeds and seedlings in Catalonia.

Categories of plant materials

The commercial propagation of certified citrus seedlings is based on ensuring the affiliation of the materials propagated (clonal origins) by means of different categories of plants. These categories are as follows: parent, base mother plant, mother of certified plant and certified plant.

Certification programme

Along with guaranteeing the absence of harmful organisms and diseases, the certification programme also requires plants to fulfill phytosanitary quality requirements set out in Royal Decree 929/1995 and the phytosanitary conditions established in Royal Decree 2071/1993 (Phytosanitary Passport Regulation). The certification programmes guarantee that the seedling is free from pathogens, with periodical health controls conducted by indexing the mother plants and the seedlings. These also ensure that visual controls have not detected the presence of harmful organisms and diseases indicated in the aforementioned Royal Decrees. Sanitation and quarantine programmes normally encompass all known pathogens, although a mistaken belief persists that certification programmes also feature these pathogens. Certification programmes instead focus on pathogens to have been detected in the country, including visual controls in order to detect quarantine pathogens that have yet to exist in the country. Certification programmes are centred on pathogens which may be transmitted by graft, mainly viruses and viroids, as well as fungi, bacteria and insects. Finally, it must be mentioned that these programmes certify that the seedlings have been produced on the basis of a primary material free from harmful organisms by means of a controlled process that reduces recontamination of viruses as far as possible during the production of the seedling.

Our Production fields

Finca La Coveta

Finca La Coveta

Area: 22 Has

Ulldecona (Tarragona)

Type of crop:

Soil, Protected, Under nets.

Finca Mas del Pi

Finca Mas del Pi

Area: 18 Has

Vinaròs (Castellón)

Type of crop:

Pots, Protected, under plastic.

Finca Pantera

Finca Pantera

Area: 15 Has

Sant Jordi (Castellón)

Strains:
Clemenules

Finca La Llarga

Finca La Llarga

Area: 15 Has

Vinaròs (Castellón)

Strains:
Ortanique

Finca Castellans

Finca Castellans

Area: 15 Has

Alcanar (Tarragona)

Strains:
Oronules

Finca Martí

Finca Martí

Area: 260 Has

Sant Rafael del Rio (Castellón)

Type of crop:

Soil, Protected, Under nets.

Strains:
Clemenrubí®
Orogrós®
Fukumoto
Arrufatina
Nero®
Oronules
Clemenules
Leanri®
Nadorcott®
Safor
Lane Late
Valencia Delta Seedless
Valencia Midknight

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