Quality - Systems
Faculties
Our quality control staff constantly monitors the quality of the all facets of the production. Testing is done on all products, water and other items at all phases of production and also ongoing testing on a percentage of the products that have been package and ready for shipment.
We use Microsoft Dynamics (formally known as Navision) to control the tractability and workflow in our pack house. We can import the data from our traceability system giving us an integrated system of tractability.
Field
Rago has two agronomists which are constantly in the production fields to support the agriculturists in the planting, growing, maintaining and harvest of the plants to ensure the products are of constant and the high test quality possible.
Since we use many Integrated methods of farming, our agronomist are always searching for ways to use nature to help us grow. Some examples is growing corn in our tunnels over the summer to be shredded and buried in the soil.
This increases the organic matter and adds beneficial nutrients to the soil. It would be much easier and less expensive to spread synthetic dry fertilizers or liquid nutrients through the irrigation system, but we believe in growing with nature, nature will grow with us and we will have healthier, safer products. This has been the Rago family philosophy for 120 years.
The Rago agronomist constantly meet with our suppliers in order to be better acquainted of the new products and methods of the application.
As we have so many accreditations, our team is in constant review by our clients and accreditation agencies. Instead of seeing this as a burden, we welcome it as it keeps us in contact with some of the brightest people in the industry which gives us access to their knowledge and experience.
We brought in specialist to create our traceably system. Ensuring that every leaf and other products that we bring into of packing facility, is safe and secure and that we know the entire history of each individual piece
Our system records all aspects of the crop production cycle. From seed procurement and assessment to the planning and application of pesticides and nutrients through to harvest records, produce storage and despatch. At every stage, information can be captured to provide full crop traceability and help ensure compliance to relevant assurance standards.
