Supporting our partners
towards more sustainable farming practices
We want to strengthen the economic sustainability and resilience of the French sugar beet industry, but also support our farmers in their efforts to make the transition to agro-ecology by building sustainable solutions with them, especially to preserve water resources, protect ecosystems and develop biodiversity and soil fertility.
ISSUE NO. 1
Ensuring sustainability and resilience
of the sugar beet industry in France
Objective:
> Set up 60 agro-ecological transition trial protocols with our partner farmers each year, providing them with technical and financial support via the Mont-Blanc program.
Our 12 crop inspectors support our farming partners in the field every day.
“In beet we believe!”
The “In beet we believe” blog brings together a wealth of articles and public content on industry news, innovations currently being rolled out, the results of agronomic trials aimed at the agro-ecological transition, and related advice.
ISSUE 2
Supporting our farmers in the agro-ecological transition and building sustainable solutions with them
We support farmers in their agro-ecological transition, particularly in soil regeneration farming and the preservation of biodiversity on their farms. Our Étrépagny pilot farm tests and implements agro-ecological practices, then trains and informs our teams, customers and farming partners.
Objective:
> 30% of our partner farmers will be integrated into an audited regenerative agriculture approach by 2030.
“Living Soils”
In 2022, Saint Louis Sucre launched the “Living Soils” program in partnership with Nestlé among its partner farmers, and relies on the Earthworm association to support the practice of soil-regenerating agriculture based on 5 criteria:
- duration of coverage
- diversification of cultivated families
- carbon storage
- Living Soils indicators
- tillage intensity
“Saint Louis Sucre takes action and mobilises by developing innovative local agricultural advice and agro-ecological transition. The Mont-Blanc program, initiated in 2014, and the Étrépagny experimental farm, launched in 2021, are effective tools for deploying these new, more sustainable agronomic solutions among our partner farmers.”
Thomas Nuytten,
Beet Manager Saint Louis Sucre