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Saudi Good Agricultural Practices Saudi GAP Project and Qualimark's Role
The Saudi GAP project is a national program launched by the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It aims to implement good agricultural practices to ensure the quality and safety of agricultural products produced or exported to the Saudi market.
The program focuses on several main axes, the most important of which are:
Raising the quality and safety of agricultural products for the consumer.
Regulating agricultural practices according to specific environmental and health standards.
Promote sustainability and protect natural resources such as water and soil.
Ensuring traceability of agricultural products from farm to distribution.
Qualimark's role
Qualimark works as a consulting firm specializing in supporting and qualifying companies and farms to implement the requirements of the Saudi GAP project through:
Qualifying companies and farms to be ready to implement the program's standards.
Providing the necessary technical and organizational consultations to develop agricultural operations and quality systems.
Preparing required documents, records and official procedures according to project requirements.
Conduct diagnostic field visits to assess the current situation and develop an action plan for improvement.
Training staff and working teams to implement quality standards and technical requirements.
Follow up on ongoing implementation to ensure compliance with required standards and maintain system sustainability.
Coordination with inspection and accreditation bodies recognized by Saudi authorities.
QUALIMARK Intermediação e Administração Ltda. also works to link quality and trust in the Brazilian food and agriculture sector.
We offer comprehensive solutions in consulting, qualification, and technical supervision to ensure that agricultural companies and meat and poultry producers comply with the highest safety, quality, and international accreditation standards, such as the Saudi GAP program and the requirements of the Gulf and Asian markets.
Through our specialized team of Brazilian and international experts and consultants, we design and implement field assessment and diagnostic programs for farms, slaughterhouses, and food factories, including:
Review of management and quality systems.
Preparing and implementing standard operating procedures (POPs).
Training local cadres on good production practices.
Continuous follow-up until the required accreditation is obtained.
Why QUALIMARK is the right choice
Multi-sector experience:
We have an extensive track record of agricultural and industrial certification projects with major Brazilian companies in the meat, grain and feed sectors.
Deep understanding of the Gulf market requirements:
We have practical experience with SAUDI GAP standards and the requirements of the Saudi and UAE markets, making us the ideal bridge between Brazil and the Middle East.
A management system based on transparency and results:
We provide accurate reporting and continuous follow-up to ensure compliance at every stage of the project, from diagnosis to final approval.
Strategic partnerships:
We partner with certification bodies, government agencies, and major export companies such as BRF and SEARA to facilitate assessment and interconnection processes.
Commitment to quality and responsibility:
We ensure that every step of our work reflects the values of integrity, professionalism, and reliability that are at the core of QUALIMARK.
Saudi GAP aims to improve agricultural practices and increase safe agricultural production, preserve the environment, qualify farmers and technicians, enhance consumers' confidence in agricultural products and open their marketing outlets internally and externally. It also serves to protect and sustain natural resources and preserve the environment, Saudi GAP provides a local network that connects farmers and brands in the production and distribution of safe foods for consumer reassurance and lays the foundations for protecting scarce resources by applying good agricultural practices to create a sustainable future.
Saudi GAB's certificate also covers the following:
Food safety and traceability.
environment (including biodiversity).
Workers' health, safety and welfare.
Animals safety.
Guide to Good Practices in Agriculture Plant Standards for Good Agricultural Women
Saudi GAB Certificate of Good Agricultural Practices
It is a set of technical standards applied to agricultural production, to ensure the safety and sustainability of food and environmental protection.
Advantages of Saudi GAB
- Maintaining the security and safety of agricultural production
- Environmental protection and sustainability of its natural resources
- Maintain workers' health and rights, open market outlets and increase product competitiveness.
- Improving agricultural processes and practices.
- Improving facilities, training, working conditions and preserving the environment from pollutants and the safety of those implementing agricultural programmes.
- Enabling smallholder farmers to apply good agricultural practices to increase their agricultural production and improve their specifications; This increases their incomes and their standard of living.
- Rehabilitation and training of farmers and technicians on the basics of SGAP.
- Application of agricultural pest and risk control programmes, organization of production unit management
- Improving productivity and ensuring the continuity of production of safe agricultural crops from pesticide residues; This is in accordance with the maximum permissible under the World Codex.
- Opening new indoor and outdoor marketing outlets for farmers by obtaining SGAP certification of their products.
- Enhance consumers' confidence in local agricultural products and their access to a healthy and safe food product.
Guide to Good Practices in Agriculture Plant Standards for Good Agricultural Women
Saudi GAB Targets
Saudi GAB certification aims to improve agricultural practices and increase safe agricultural production, preserve the environment, qualify farmers and technicians, enhance consumers' confidence in agricultural products and open their marketing outlets internally and externally. Provide and improve irrigation water consumption in agriculture through the use of modern irrigation methods, rationalize the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, and increase the use of organic fertilizer which improves the soil's properties and fertility, thereby improving its ability to retain irrigation water.
It aims to encourage farmers to grow more economically valuable crops such as fruits and vegetables, open new marketing outlets indoors and abroad, improve agricultural processes and practices, increase agricultural production and improve its specifications, improve facilities and working conditions and workers, qualify and train farmers and technicians, and enhance consumers' confidence in local agricultural products by obtaining a healthy and safe food product.
- Reasons for applying the Good Agricultural Practice System S.G.A.P
- Modernizing and developing the country's agriculture and its sustainability.
- Demand for the safety of local agricultural products and their impact on consumers' health.
- Reduce residual pesticide ratios in agricultural crops.
- Some farmers suffer in marketing their agricultural produce.
Certification Certificate Saudi GAB
The "Saudi Gap S GAP" certification of good agricultural practices is given to farms where the terms and criteria of the project are met s self-assessment ", which includes risk assessment, record-keeping and self-evaluation of the production unit, Ensuring food safety at all stages of production, fuel and energy use standards, It provides a documented product tracking and segregation system, and provides specialization and training with the production unit manager responsible for product management, protective materials, fertilizer management, occupational safety, equipment and machinery, In addition to employment registration, handling and risk insurance soil safety and protection from collapse, and water safety used in agriculture water used during product circulation, as well as wastewater management improving wildlife and protecting biodiversity, managing pollutants and waste, providing hygiene and public health guidance, Health facilities, smoking and dining facilities, and preventive measures against visitors' transmitted diseases, as well as effective planning of fertilizer and pesticide use, general requirements for harvesting, packaging, storage and other standards.
