CJ Selecta, a Brazil-based soy protein concentrate (SPC) producer and a subsidiary of South Korea-based CJ CheilJedang, announced that it would no longer purchase any soybeans from the Amazon rainforest starting this year.
Completely moving away from purchasing soybeans from the Amazon as part of its Seed Project to preserve the environment UBERLÂNDIA, Brazil and SEOUL, South Korea, April 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian soy traders CJ Selecta, Caramuru and Imcopa have committed to zero deforestation in their respective supply chains, adding pressure on larger traders to accelerate environmental commitments.
FILE PHOTO: A soy plantation is seen in a farm in Sao Desiderio, Bahia state, Brazil March 21, 2018. REUTERS/Roberto Samora
Their pledge involves a ban on trading soy grown on land deforested after August 2020 in all of Brazil, going beyond a previous agreements among traders that only applied to the Amazon rainforest.
Patricia Sugui, CJ Selecta’s sustainability manager, said the three are part of a group promoting soy sustainability, adding the move to eradicate deforestation from supply chains immediately “is an answer to demands of civil society.” The three companies mostly supply Norway’s salmon industry.
European farmed salmon sector to use only deforestation-free Brazilian soy
by Genevieve Belmaker on 29 January 2021
Three Brazilian salmon-feed supply growers CJ Selecta, Caramuru and Imcopa/Cervejaria Petrópolis will produce and harvest only deforestation- and conversion-free soybean supply chain products.
The change is a result of the first large-scale, protein-producing sector that’s eliminated links to tropical deforestation throughout the supply chain.
Under the international agreement, no soybean crops produced on land converted after August 2020 will be allowed into supply chains, and the new standards will apply to future purchase contracts.
The European salmon industry’s Brazilian soy product supply chain for feed is set to become deforestation-free. According to the Rainforest Foundation Norway, Brazilian salmon-feed supply growers CJ Selecta, Caramuru and Imcopa/Cervejaria Petrópolis say anything they produce and harvest post-August 2020 must be part of a defor
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