Vitalgrana Pomegranate

Vitalgrana is a project which starts its activity in 2008, when a group of 400 farmers, owners of 1.300 Ha (13.000.000 m2) of the land known as “Els Carrissals” or “Los Carrizales”, located in the Parques Naturales del Hondo of Elche/Crevillente and Las Salinas of Santa Pola (Alicante), decides to run a leading enterprise, specifically the PARC NATURAL AGRARI ELS CARRISSALS (PANAC) (www.carrizales.es), a project whose philosophy is based upon the environmental respect and the support to the traditional agricultural and livestock activities that, throughout centuries, have been developed within this territory, under the protection of the European Agricultural Model.

The initial phase of the aforementioned project did culminate with the running of the Vitalgrana’s project in October 2011; throughout the development and research initial phase, multidisciplinary teams made of Chemists, Biochemists, Pharmacists, Biologists, Doctors, Agronomists and Industrial Engineers did collaborate, as well as several departments of the Universidad Miguel Hernández of Elche (Alicante), with the invaluable support of the Generalitat Valenciana, thanks to different budget items which were assigned to research.

The Vitalgrana’s project comes from the global strategy of the PANAC’s project, which bets on valuing a traditional cultivation, deeply-rooted within our area, the “ELCHE’s MUSHY POMEGRANATE” in particular. The area and environment where our project is based produces up to 90% of the European pomegranates production, which allows Vitalgrana to have the best raw material, that is daily transferred to its manufacture, and monthly harvested.

The shareholders of Vitalgrana are the PARC NATURAL AGRARI ELS CARRISSALS SOCIEDAD COOPERATIVA VALENCIANA and several private investors which did bring the necessary funds to run the project.

Vitalgrana possesses a highly trained staff, where a wide experience within the agrifood industry joins the energy and the youth of its team.