Management Report 2020
Management Report 2020
SLC Agrícola
Water & biodiversity
The conservation of water resources and biodiversity is one of the priori-
ties of the Company's integrated management. Our purpose is to promote
agriculture that is responsible and connected to the environment, with a
balance between natural and cultivation areas. Our initiatives focus on
capturing eco-efficiency gains in production, protecting headwaters and
bodies of water and developing reforested and recovered areas.
At present, 99% of the areas that we cultivate do not use irrigation sys-
tems - this is known as dry, rain-fed or non-irrigation farming. On the
Pamplona and Palmares farms, where a small portion of the cultivation
is irrigated, we adopt the Irriga System, which continually monitors the
soil's specific demand for water for the next 24 to 48 hours.
In 2020 the total volume captured was 18.3 million m³, reduction of
28.6% in relation to the previous year due to good rainfall levels at
Fazenda Pamplona, which minimized the demand for the Irriga System.
Figure 23
Total water withdrawal
by source (m³ '000)
26,093
26,050
1,100
1,307
18,612
1,507
2018
24,993
24,743
17,105
2019
2020
Superficial sources
Underground sources
Bio-factories
We have 11 units producing bio-pesticides used on our farms, each one with capacity for 15,000 liters per week. In the structures we produce
and test six different types of microorganisms, whose application in substitution to synthetic products is interesting for the natural balance of
ecosystems and, combined with localized application technologies, reduces the demand for volume of materials and water in operations.
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