The process begins with the client’s interest in inserting traceability and socio-environmental sustainability as determinants in the production of the end product. Any species of interest can be part of the Partnership for a Better World program, conditioning the chosen cultivation location to its area of occurrence or adaptation to the environment.

Pre-selection is continuously made in rural communities, associations, cooperatives and small-scale farmers to have them become medicinal plant suppliers. The species are selected for cultivation and undergo botanical, agronomic and feasibility analysis, ensuring the promotion of the desired species.

With the client’s interest, partnership agreements are established between the client and Centroflora, and subsequently between Centroflora and the farmer through which Centroflora Group, by means of its Botanic & Sustainability department, guarantees the purchase of planned harvests and the necessary transfer of technology to the field, responsibly integrating the entire production chain.

With the harvest and drying stages completed, the plant is sent to the facilities of Centroflora Group where it is analyzed and quality certified, and the active ingredients extracted by means of safe and recyclable solvents (water, ethanol from sugarcane, and plant glycerin).

The extracts are concentrated and dried using technologies that guarantee the integrity of the active ingredient and excipients free of genetic manipulation such as manioc starch.

A percentage of the product’s sales is pre-agreed with the client and destined to the promotion of socio-environmental projects, and can be donated to Instituto Floravida.

In order to assist in this work, Centroflora Group setup a medicinal garden in Botucatu (SP) comprised of native and exotic species, and experimental cultivation fields, where the cycles of the selected species are studied, and from where plantlets and passed on to farming partners. The program’s major partners are: Rural communities and producers, Farming Cooperatives, Private Institutions, Universities, Government and Non-governmental bodies, among others.

There is the option of having the stages monitored and certified by the IBD, a body with international credibility in organic product certification.