Quality Management System
The Quality Management System
The QMS is based on:
- An agro-ecologic production approach promoting a quality management system, which focuses on product quality enhancement to respond to the international market demand while protecting the delicate balance between trees and surrounding ecosystem.
- The promotion of cultivation-related traditions and local plant varieties, ensuring delivery of a high-quality and sustainable product.
- Ethical principles to enable inclusive and efficient agricultural system for farmers and workers involved in the value chain which aims to provide support for access to more profitable markets by promoting economic and social development in the most disadvantaged communities.
The Quality Management System is a guarantee label based on compliance with a system of quality standards applied to agricultural production from plant cultivation to post-harvest management. The QMS is part of an overall framework direct to promote synergies among several products as Date, Cherry, Apricot, Aloe Vera and to favorite network and cooperation between Small Farmers engaged in the application of a re-organization strategy.
INFORMATION / DATA COLLECTION
primary sources and secondary sources
QSM
Find articles and reports on the situation of the sector, data statistics, censuses. Visit the websites of the sector's entrepreneur associations, the ministry and the official organizations connected to the sector, international and national institutes, chambers of commerce and industry. Visit the competitors' websites. Information available on the Internet for free: find articles and reports on the situation in your sector, statistics and data, censuses. Visit the websites of the associations of entrepreneurs in your sector, the Ministry and official organizations connected to your sector in your autonomous community, national and regional statistics institutes, chambers of commerce and industry.
The resources invested in the market analysis
The knowledge of the context in real time makes it possible to act in a “calibrated” way in the target markets, as far as the food market is concerned, the acute study of the economic peculiarities of negotiation, social, style is necessary of consumption and import-export in order to assess which factors have the greatest influence on the placement of the product. Important after having implemented your own actions periodically monitor if everything is going well, if something can be done better and more efficiently. it is useful to prepare a "check list" that allows us to update and recalibrate, from time to time (eg twice a year), the new actions to be taken (SWOT Analisis). useful (strengths, opportunities) - useless (weaknesses - Threats) a SWOT analysis as a summary in which identifies the opportunities and threats of the market and the environment together with the positioning of your business before it, identifying your strengths and weaknesses.
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