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About the company

With over 20 years of experience exporting honey to North and South America, Europe and Asia, Matrunita is a company specialized in sourcing and selling essentially organic products. Located in the Brazilian Northeast, the most appropriate region for the production of organic honey, the company has as principle the valorization of family agriculture beekeepers, who at no time use pesticides in the honey harvest. Matrunita prioritizes the production of the Northeast Region for its qualitative and quantitative potential. The region, for being free of intensive agriculture, preserves its blooms without the use of fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides or fungicides, therefore free of agrotoxics. In this way, the Africanized bee, which inhabits the Brazilian Northeast on a large scale, is very resistant to diseases, completely nullifying the use of antibiotics by beekeepers and never producing transgenic flowering honey. The caatinga, a vegetal formation that exists exclusively in Brazil, and on a larger scale in the Northeast, keeps this strong characteristic: it has a very diversified flowering and quality in the production of a unique honey and of great acceptance on the international market.

Matrunita has a very significant social role for the beekeepers and the people who live around the apiaries. Through incentives in the construction of water tanks, toilets, sewers or any other work that can benefit the quality of life of the beekeepers' families. In addition, bees naturally play an extremely important role in environmental preservation, the perpetuation of species and the flowering of plants, playing the role of multiplying agent of native vegetation and ensuring more quality of life for the planet.

Our Origins

The company was created in 2012, a subsidiary of the secular Parodi Group, Matrunita da Amazônia was created with the intention of increasing both the production and export of organic honey from the Northeast of Brazil. Thus, the company has invested in technology and training to maintain the quality of the production of the apiaries in the Northeast of Brazil. Always encouraging the beekeepers, passing on technology and teachings to improve each day, and also, always concerned with the social aspect, Matrunita invests in a very professional way in the improvement of the honey harvest, as well as in the genetic improvement of the bees because the success of a good honey production is in the periodic exchange of the queen bee.

Our Certifications

USDA ORGANIC

Meets all the certifications made for the US Market, and IBD is accredited with the adoption of USDA/NOP standards, and only these are valid.

IBD

The largest certifier of organic products in Latin America. Not only offers organic certification protocols, but also sustainability certifications.

CERES

CERES carries out thorough inspections and audits to ensure that all production processes fully comply with quality and sustainability standards.

FAIR TRADE

The Fair Trade Program (Comércio Justo) of IBD is applicable to products and processes certified as organic. Fair Trade Certification applies to companies, farms, and producer groups that aim to initiate an internal process of human, social, and environmental development, fostered by commercial relationships based on the principles of Fair Trade. Matrunita is proud to be part of this program, supporting beekeepers who are directly connected to its work philosophy.

EU ORGANIC

It complies with all certifications for the European (EU) market, and the IBD is accredited to meet all EU/Organic Regulation standards.

BIO SUÍSSE

The “BIO SUÍSSE” organic certification is a Swiss label that guarantees that agricultural and food products comply with Swiss organic standards. Its quality seal is one of the strictest in Europe.

KRAV

KRAV certification is an organization that sets strict requirements to guarantee organic production. Although it is of Swedish origin and very prominent in Sweden, its recognition has spread beyond Swedish borders, especially in Northern European countries.

Fair Trade

IBD is the largest certifier of organic products in Latin America. Fair Trade is the IBD program applicable to products and processes certified as organic. Matrunita proudly holds this certification. Through it, the company seeks to promote an internal process of human development, driven by beekeepers, as well as social and environmental progress, fostered by commercial relationships based on the principles of Fair Trade. This ensures the improvement of living and working conditions for family-farming beekeepers, as well as the protection and conservation of the environment within the company.

Organic Honey

Organic honey is a food generally found in a viscous and sugary liquid state, produced by bees from nectar collected from flowers. The principle of organic food is to respect the natural order of production, without interference from antibiotics, pesticides or pesticides. Matrunita chose the Northeast region of Brazil exactly because its honey production is made without the interference of products that could modify its natural constitution. This way, the organic honey commercialized by Matrunita has a great acceptance and valuation in the international market.

BENEFITS:

Absence of pesticides, healthier and more nutritious food, reduction of environmental pollution, improvement of life in the field, and promotion of well-being to the beekeepers. Besides these factors, Matrunita is concerned with the incentive of the responsible consumption of a quality product, following the exportation rules demanded by the international market, and valuing the work of the family agriculture beekeepers, motivating them in the harvesting of a superior quality product, and still, giving support so that this production always improves. Moreover, Matrunita gives technological support, training for the best use of the production and social incentives to all the beekeepers, helping them improve their quality of life.

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