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Cultivating Local Opportunity
At PepsiCo, our agricultural heritage
gives us a healthy respect for the grains,
fruits, vegetables and nuts that deliver
great taste and nutrition. We rely on local
farmers to supply our network of global
facilities with high-quality fruits and
vegetables. These strong partnerships
help us ensure consistent freshness and
quality, increase crop yields, reduce our
carbon footprint and support families
and communities.
In Mexico, Sabritas creates a reliable
and sustainable market for small and
mid-sized corn farmers. We invited them
to become Sabritas supply chain partners
and are working with the local Educampo
Program to provide the seeds, fertilizers,
agrochemicals and water usage guidelines
that help farmers produce abundant crops.
This educational, technical and financial
support is enabling 297 producers in poor
farming communities to cultivate new
economic and social development oppor-
tunities while increasing their average crop
yield by more than 165 percent.
Similar agricultural programs are
reaping positive results in other countries
as well. In Russia, when the economic
downturn restricted available credit,
we kept local farmers afloat with micro-
credits, payments for crops, seed credits
and leases for agricultural machinery.
Our agro-manager teams also consulted
with farmers and shared best practices.
And in Inner Mongolia, China, we intro-
duced proven environmentally friendly
irrigation and crop rotation practices that
save water and help local potato farmers
grow thriving crops in the middle of the
desert. These farmers are better able to
make a sustainable living by selling their
crops at competitive prices.
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