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Productive and Environmental Transformation
Pongamia Latam is focused on turning marginal and underdeveloped lands into high-value productive assets. Our strategy drives environmental recovery and the generation of quality products from the source.
Soil Recovery
Soil Recovery: heal and restore degraded lands.
Added Value Generation
From the cultivation we produce high-value oil and proteins.
Community Development and Training
The core of our social impact is investment in people. We work with communities, providing tools, training, and support so they can actively integrate into the value chain.
Technical Training
Training for plantation, management, and harvest of the Pongamia tree. Creating skills for the local population.
Sustainable Activity
Integration of the community into a continuous value chain generating work for families, suppliers, and the community.
Joint Work Plan
Programs designed to guarantee direct and indirect benefits for local ownership of the project.
Opportunity and Community
Estimated Benefits
We estimate the following impacts per 100,000 hectares of pongamia cultivation:
Economic benefits
- Generation of around 250 direct and permanent jobs.
- Labor for preparing and planting 50 million trees.
- Staff required for the collection and milling of 2 million tons of pods per year.
- Production of vegetable oil and export of approximately 300,000 tons annually.
- Maintenance of infrastructure and irrigation systems.
- Nursery management and operations.
- Livestock management.
- Development of beekeeping activities.
- Sharing and exchanging effective practices.
Social benefits
- Active participation and engagement with local and indigenous communities.
- Housing assistance for workers.
- Educational support initiatives.
- Healthcare programs.
- Transfer of technology and knowledge.
- Local workforce training.
- Sharing and exchanging effective practices.
Planting the Seed of the Community
The Virtuous Circle of Work
At Pongamia Latam, our mission goes beyond reforestation and biomass production. Our real impact comes from creating a Virtuous Circle of Work that regenerates the environment while promoting the social and economic development of local communities. Our commitment is to build a productive activity that raises quality of life, regenerates natural environments, and promotes sustainable long-term development.
The virtuous circle
Collaborative
ecosystem
The Virtuous Circle is sustained thanks to a collaborative ecosystem based on a triple-impact strategic alliance.
Local producers
They contribute labor, receive training, and become productive partners, ensuring sustainability.
Private sector
It contributes with investment, technology and guarantees the purchase of products, closing the commercial cycle.
Government and entities
They facilitate the regulatory framework and promote policies that integrate communities into the project.