Sustainability Approach | Işık Tarım

The Happy Village Project, initiated by Işık Tarım in 1991, is a holistic sustainability project. The Happy Village Project not only enables more than 4000 farmers registered in the project to switch to organic agriculture, but also focuses on the protection of the natural life balance in the land and gardens, and attaches great importance to the training of farmers and their seasonal workers in this regard. The main elements of the project are to train the seasonal workers working in the fields and gardens of our organic farmers registered in the Happy Village Project, especially during the harvest period, to work in fair and good conditions, to meet their needs, and to contribute to rural development.

ENVIRONMENT

We promote organic farming and good agricultural practices for environmental protection

COLLOBARATION

We create a big synergy among Işık Tarım people, clients, growers, consumers and everybpdy in our community

WORKING
CONDITIONS

We ensure good working conditions for harvest workers and their families.

TRACEABILITY &
TRANSPARENCY

All fruits and hazelnuts we offer can be traced directly to the source and farmer who grew them.

RURAL
DEVELOPMENT

We support rural development by making lives easier and better in rural areas

WHAT DO
WE DO
FOR
SUSTAINABILITY

FOR ECOSYSTEM

FOR FARMS

There is a natural life balance in fields and gardens. Not to disturb this natural balance, we do:

FOR FARMERS

Işık Tarım’s Agrıcultural Team provides regular trainings to raise awareness of our Happy Village registered farmers and to support production in accordance with the organic standarts of different countries.

ORGANIC REGULATORY STANDARTS TRAININGS
AGRICULTURAL KNOWLEDGE TRAININGS
- Cultivation Techniques
- Feeding Techniques
- Disease & Pest. Management Techniques
- Irrigation Techniques
PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE TRAININGS
- Good Harvesting
- Drying Techniques
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY TRAININGS
ISIK AGRICULTURAL EARLY WARNING SYSTEM

FOR WORKERS

Our organic farmers enrolled in the Happy Village Project are in dire need of seasonal workers to harvest the produce, especially during the harvest period. Işık Tarım provides orientation, occupational health and safety, hygiene and sanitation trainings to workers who come for 1-2 months to collect products in the fields and gardens in order to create conscious and educated workers who take ownership of the product. In addition to trainings, we have many projects certified under Fair for Life, Certified Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance to ensure that seasonal workers live and work in fair and good conditions.

CREATING PRODUCT-OWNING, CONSCIOUS AND WELL-TRAINED WORKERS

ORIENTATION TRAININGS
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY TRAININGS
HYGIENE & SANITATION TRAININGS

ENSURING THAT WORKERS LIVE AND WORK IN FAIR AND DECENT CONDITIONS

PROJECTS TO IMPROVE WORK & LIVING CONDITIONS

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AS PROCESSOR

WATER MANAGEMENT

According to the light sustainability approach:

By starting water management from the land, we first select suitable varieties that require less water for the crops we produce.
For the remaining irrigation needs, methods such as Mini Sprinkler or drip irrigation are applied to prevent excess water consumption.
In our factories, pressurized washing systems are integrated to reduce the amount of water used for washing and cleaning.

RENEWABLE ENERGY

We are committed to reducing our impact on the environment today and for generations to come. In addition to taking steps to reduce our own carbon footprint, we source clean and renewable energy to power the majority of our facilities. This helps us use energy more efficiently and reduce our greenhouse gas impact.

Thanks to the solar panels we installed on the roofs of our dried fruit and frozen fruit factories, we saved 7,464 trees in 2022.