Chía
Chia Corp™ (Chia Corp S.A.) is a multinational company with its headquarters in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Its aim is the production and trade of chia seeds (salvia hispanica L.) and its byproducts.
Chia Corp™ trade chia seeds on thirty different farms based in three countries from where they export worldwide. Chia seeds are grown in the company´s own farms as well as farms managed directly by themselves or under advice and strict inspection of their technical department. These farms belong to both small producers who plant no more than 5 ha/yearly as well as large producers whose chia plantations reach 1.500 ha/y.
The Chia Corp technical department is formed by agronomists specially trained and with a huge experience in crops in each of the different countries where they are developing their activities.
The strategic decision of producing and storaging the seed in different countries minimizes climatic and political risks, allowing the continuous product flow along the year.
Chia Corp basic activities are divided into 3 large areas called:
• R & D, whose aims are:
- to improve the agricultural production by means of genetics, and farming practices
- to find out new uses for the seed and its byproducts.
- to determine potential production areas
- to collect and preserve the assorted chosen varieties by
Precolumbian natives for the sake of avoiding extinction.
• AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, whose aims are:
- to produce seed, with crops in fields distributed in different countries
- to adapt the seed according to different markets´ requirements
• TRADE, whose aims are:
- to distrubute stocks strategically and keep them into cold
– storage chambers
- to run sales
- to coordinate exports for the customers to receive them in due time.
L“Salvia Hispanica L.” Chia is a summer annual herbaceous oily plant member of the Labiatae family, original from Mexican Central valleys and Guatemala. It was one of the staple food of Central American Civilizations during Precolumbian period. It was considered as important as corn, bean and amaranth.
Although the chía seed appears as an essential Omega -3 fatty acids source, its chemical compound also shows several and very attractive elements from the human nutrition point of view, as content and quality of protein, antioxidants and dietary fibre.
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