This document provides information about Agroindustrial Tres Amigos, S.A. - Tropicales del Valle, S.A., a pineapple farming and exporting operation in Costa Rica. It details the company's vision, mission, farm location and characteristics. The company has over 1,000 hectares of land and packs 11 million boxes of pineapples annually from its own and contracted farms. It discusses the company's certifications, sustainable practices like reducing pesticide use, and social responsibility programs in the local community. Photos show the various stages of pineapple cultivation and packing processes.

1. Agroindustrial Tres Amigos, S.A. - Tropicales del
Valle, S.A.
Mr. Alvaro Figueroa S. President / Owner

2. Agroindustrial Tres Amigos, S.A. -
La Piedra de Pital, San Carlos

3. Vision
To be recognized as the first
option regarding to fresh
pineapple. The first option is the
best; which means that at
Tropicales del Valle we
committed to work everyday
with enthusiasm and care in
order to be the number ones
and to deliver a high quality
product to satisfy our clients.

4. Mission
We are a dedicated company to pack and export
fresh pineapple from San Carlos, Costa Rica. Here
we strongly strive in order to:
To Offer a high quality product that fully satisfied
our clientele
To keep very strong quality and food safety
To be higly competitive and innovating constantly
To train and motivate our coworkers so we obtain
compromise and cooperation back from all of
them.

5. The Farm
Founded between 2007-2008
An area of 1173 ha. gross hectares, located in La
Piedra, Pital, San Carlos – Northern Costa Rica
Production is programmed year around based on
the requirements of the different markets we
serve.

6. Farm &
Location
Packing House
Tropicales del
Valle, S.A.
Farm
Agroindustrial Tres
Amigos, S.A.
Agroindustrial
Tres Amigos is
located 3 hours
away from the
capital by car.
Tropicales del
Valle / Packing
House is located
30 min away from
the main farm.
Packing house is 5
hours away from
the main shipping
port Limon.

7. Farm

8. Farm Charateristics
Topography is irregular at the
farm.
This irregularity of the land
benefits in terms of drainage of
excess of water at soil level.
All the fields are protected from
erosion with green barrieres as
well as infrastrutures

9. Pineapple Fields - Terraces

10. Pineapple Fields – Surrounded by forest

11. Pineapple – Ripenned Fruit ready to be harvest

12. Agroindustrial Tres Amigos, S.A.
Composition
Fields (farm): 1173 ha. Gross.
Total net area of production: RFA
certified area 649.02 ha. net.
Employees: 169
Buffer areas, conservation, and
wildlife reserve are: 152.20 ha.
The rest belongs to roads and
rivers or water corps.

13. Agroindustrial Tres Amigos, S.A.
Ground
preparation

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Erosion control
soil structures
And buffer
surrounded
borders

15. Agroindustrial Tres Amigos, S.A.
Soil
conformation

16. Agroindustrial Tres Amigos, S.A.
Selecting
the seed

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Planting

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Fertilizing

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Applications

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Flowering cycle

21. Agroindustrial Tres Amigos, S.A.
Ripening process

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Harvest
labor

23. Agroindustrial Tres Amigos, S.A.
Harvest
labor

24. Certifcations and Operational Regulations
Farm Certifications
TESCO
Nurture –
GOLD
TESCO (TPPS,
Tesco Produce
Packhouse
Standard)
Rain Forest
Alliance
2017-2020
Cadena de
Custodia Rain
Forest
Alliance
Primus Labs /
Ranch /
Harvest Crew
Primus Labs /
Packing
House
SMETA
(Ethical
Trading
Iniciative)
Members of
SEDEX
SMETA
(Ethical
Trading
Iniciative)
Global GAP
(GRASP V1.3
July 2015 Op.
1)
Global GAP
(GRASP V1.3
July 2015 Op.
1)
BRC Global
Standards
Packing Facility
Certifications

25. Packing Facility – Tropicales del Valle, S.A.
Location: Pital, San Carlos.
Northern Costa Rica.
Cold storage capacity of 30 loads aprox.
(1,000 m2 )
Employees: 135
Yield: 1200 boxes / hour approx. (Two
lines.)
12 loads a day aprox. (Two lines)
The new packing house area has
increased the capacity almost by double.
Total area: 4,300 m2

26. Packing House – Tropicales del Valle, S.A.
Quality Control and
Assurance

27. Packing House – Tropicales del Valle, S.A.
External shell color and
internal condition

28. Packing House – Tropicales del Valle, S.A.
Evaluation of the
appearance of the fruit
Filling the evaluated data

29. Packing House – Tropicales del Valle, S.A.
Percentage of
brix level
(sugar)
Pulp pressure

30. Packing House– Tropicales del Valle, S.A.

31. Packing House – Tropicales del Valle, S.A.
Washing, Sanitizing, and Wax Application

32. Packing Facility – Tropicales del Valle, S.A.
Sizer – calibration of each fruit

33. Packing House– Tropicales del Valle, S.A.
Fruit being
packed and
on its way to
get palletized

34. Packing Facility – Tropicales del Valle, S.A.
Finished Product

35. Our product ready to
be delivery

36. Our product ready to
be delivery

37. Our product ready to
be delivery

38. Our product ready to
be delivery

39. Our product ready to
be delivery

40. Our product ready to
be delivery

41. Our product ready to
be delivery

42. Being Sustainable
 Innovation is key as a part of our
day by day labor as well as in the
development of new projects.
 Reduction of the use of pestisides
and fungicides. Moving away
from red label (not at all up to
2019) to green and then the blue
label agrochemicals.
 Testing alternative products for
the crop for example trichoderma
& basillus as well as others
subtitutions for fungicides and
pesticides.

43. Being sustainable
Trichoderma spp. vrs
Nigrospora spp

44. Being Sustainable
The farm has
aproximately 150
hectares of wildlife
forest reserve
(primary and
secondary forest)
and 50 hectares of
water reserviours.

45. Being sustainable
 Reforestation Programs
coordinated with foreign
interchange students along the
town and close to the limits of
the farm.

46. Social
Responsability
We have formed a close relationship community
giving back to them in diferent aspects for a better
well being.
Helping the community re-build road-
infraestructure.
Recycling programs as well as reforestation are
examples of the projects we have developed with
the community.
Helping education through the donation of books
and computers. Maintenance of green grass áreas.
Helping in clean the watersheds that surrounded the
packing and production áreas

47. Social
Responsability

48. Social
Responsability

49. Our Pineapple Production
11 million boxes per year
6.0 million boxes from our own
production areas packed at Tropicales
del Valle, S.A.
2.5 million boxes from a group of
growers packed at Tropicales del Valle,
S.A.
2.5 million boxes from well established
producers/packers contracted and
supervised by Tropicales del Valle, S.A.

50. Our Performance through this Journey
 Continuous growth through the years.
 Its been a six-fold growth since the first year since the time zero.
 Volume and diversification of clients have been key to the success.
 Up to 2014, the growth in the last three years was of over a million boxes per year.
2008; 962 046
2009; 1 896 094
2010; 1 889 727
2011; 2 406 095
2012; 3 716 393
2013; 4 605 325
2014; 6 026 812
2015; 5 122 512
2016; 6 019 180
2017; 6 771 198
2018; 7 632 301
2019; 8 056 704
2020; 8 109 599
2021; 7 006 046
97%
27%
TROPICALES DEL VALLE S.A
PRODUCCIÓN ANUAL 2008 AL 2021
-0.34%
54%
18%
24%
31%
-15%
12%
% Crecimiento
Anual
Cajas por Año
13%
0.66%

51. Golden Selection – Our Special Fruit
Each fruit is selected individually
Ripened one by one
Harvest is done manually
Each fruit handled with care
Packed separately
Special post-harvest treatment in order to comply with market requirements

52. Golden Selection – Our Special Fruit
Artisan handling

53. Golden Selection – Our Special Fruit

54. Golden Selection – Our Special Fruit

55. Golden Selection – Our Special Fruit –
By air

56. Looking forward for a long term
business relationship founded upon
hard work, innovation, enthusiasm
and ethical values.