Producer groups of fruits, vegetables and grapes “Quality – Simvolo” began as an Agricultural cooperative on 11 April 2003, having 80 members. The members could sell their products through the cooperative, having greater potential to the best price, decided after the common market.

Next year, on September-15-2004 pre-identified as a producer group. The members increased and began an effort by the institutions of the cooperative to ‘impose’ rules of production and quality. Specifically, the policy of the organization are those concerning the implementation of production systems, to the permanent control of producers and production process, quality assurance, compliance to legal requirements, respect them and protect the environment.

At this stage, the administration of the producer group wants to familiarize producers with the implementation of quality systems and to control the production process. This system of integrated management the producer groups based on the EUREPGAP protocol.

Members of producers’ groups continue to market their products mainly based on join marketing, and most objective of all, members and management is the routing of products through its own processing plan.

So in September 2005, is the first step in packaging and marketing their products abroad, with rented packaging unit, while they qualify for the establishment of their own unit. Starts in the membership of the European market, offering everything from best quality to all customers, and continues to implement the integrated management system EUROPGAP.

Since September 2006, the group in completing its own packaging unit, with modern facilities and equipment, the 3.000 square meters, which certified at BRC, IFS.

Its aim is to be able to channel all its products on the market, ranging around of 2,000,000 pounds grapes, to be able to meet customer needs, offering over all excellent quality.