A Benefit Company is a company that, alongside the goal of profit, pursues the aim of having a positive impact on society, communities, people, and the environment.
Being a Benefit Company means creating shared value not only for shareholders but also for the local area and the community.
The Agrifuture Circular Model
The projects developed by the Agrifuture Group in the municipalities of Conza della Campania, Sant’Andrea di Conza, and Stigliano are based on an integrated approach, articulated along four main axes:
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Clean Energy
Implementation of new-generation agrivoltaic plants that produce electricity using the sun, also in support of agricultural and agro-industrial production.
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Sustainable Agriculture
Adoption of precision agriculture techniques that lead to production efficiency. Introduction of new crops, and reorganization of pre-existing crops to activate production chains with high added value. Introduction of lavender, a medicinal plant that activates innovative agro-industrial processes, with technologies with low environmental impact and the implementation of processes aimed at extracting value from olive waste.
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Recovery and Valorization of Waste
All agricultural by-products (olive leaves, vegetation water, lavender residues) are transformed into compost, following a zero-waste logic.
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Research and Development
Execution of research activities in the chemical-pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and nutraceutical fields, experimenting with the extraction of high-value molecules from plant materials, and in the agro-biological field for the selection of innovative, more efficient crops, fertilizers, and production processes.
A Zero-Waste Production Cycle
Through this integrated system, every element has a second life: essential oils will be produced from lavender flowers, polyphenols will be extracted from olive leaves and vegetation water from the oil mills, while lycopene will be extracted from tomato peels.
Even the residues from these processes can be used to obtain compost.
Everything re-enters the cycle, with zero waste and a positive impact on the local area.
We have the ambition to make our small contribution in the short term to mitigate the negative effects and in the long term to eliminate the causes that are leading to the disruption of ecosystems and the climate. We believe that technological innovation in this sector can generate widespread social well-being.