Germina

Commitment and engagement with ESG

We have the objective of fostering the sustainable agribusiness, improving people’s life quality, and incentivizing responsible environmental practices.

Transformation for sustainable development

Our enterprise foresees the generation of 180 thousand jobs, investments of over R$ 1.1 billion and the responsible management of natural resources.

Baixio do Irecê: new frontier of the national agribusiness

Our project encompasses 31.4 thousand hectares of irrigable areas with a stable climate, perennial availability of water, high soil quality and privileged logistics.

Solutions in hydro-agricultural infrastructure

We combine intelligence and experience in water resources management to offer services for food production, including irrigation, clean energy, and civil facilities.

We employ the best irrigation technologies in the use of clean energy and hydro-agricultural infrastructure.

Who
we are

Germina is a company of hydro-agricultural services, part of the portfolio of Grupo Equipav, a platform for investments in infrastructure with over 60 years of services in the areas of sanitation, road mobility and agribusiness. Based on this journey, we uniquely combine expertise in water resources management, experience in public concessions, security for investments and integrity in our activities.

We have the commitment of promoting Brazil’s socioeconomic development, boosting opportunities in agribusiness, improving people’s life quality, contributing to the promotion of food safety and incentivizing responsible environmental practices, in line with the ESG agenda.

What
we do

Germina is structured as a company specialized in the management of areas destined for hydro-agricultural projects, providing irrigation infrastructure, and contributing to the development of sustainable agribusiness.

Germina’s business plan foresees the optimization of investments and accelerating the deployment of necessary resources for food production. In order to do this, we employ the best technologies in irrigation, use of clean energy and hydro-agricultural infrastructure.

Irrigation Scenario and Context

Brazilian agribusiness in a challenging environment

The world population, according to the United Nations (UN), is expected to increase by 10% by beginning of the 2030s, reaching 8.7 billion people. This expansion projects a need for production growth in the country which is 3 times higher than that of the previous decade. Brazil, a global leader in food production, is challenged to cope with the reduction of areas in traditional producing regions and expand the production to new frontiers in the North and Northeast, such as the region of Baixio do Irecê, in the Northwest of Bahia, to support the strong demand.

Irrigation: a sustainable option to increase production

Irrigation has emerged as a sustainable solution to make enterprises feasible in areas with arid and semiarid climate and irregular water resources throughout the year. Among the reasons that justify investments in hydro-agricultural infrastructure is its potential as a driver of the Brazilian agricultural expansion, enabling the following:

mitigation of production risks, which are increasingly severe with climate change;

increase in productivity in each harvest;

improvement of product quality (controlled standards and sanitation, facilitating certification);

streamlining of crop rotation, which is essential to break the continuous cycles of the same crops and avoid soil exhaustion.

Our
values

Equipav and Germina: a reference in developments with ESG footprint

The ESG agenda has a leading role in the activities of Grupo Equipav and its subsidiaries. Germina’s project for Baixio do Irecê represents benefits in all aspects:

Environmental

Environmental (E), through renewable energy, carbon credits, legal reserves, reduction in the use of pesticides, responsible management of the flora and fauna, and certifications.

Social

Social (S), through the generation of jobs, training/education and hiring of local workforce, sustainable economic development, fight against hunger, support to the agribusiness chain, innovation in irrigation technologies, precision agriculture.

Governance

In Governance (G), with excellence in the management of water resources, experience in public-private concessions, specialized executive management and a “business owner” mindset, financial security and consistency in long-term investments in infrastructure, priority for green capital, focus on generating results for everyone.

Integrity

The Code of Conduct is a document that brings together our values, principles and guidelines for the behavior expected of Employees and Business Partners. We value best market practices and transparency in all our relationships.

This material is our reference for competitive processes, partner selection and the establishment of positive relationships with our internal and external audiences, which will help us maintain our synergy and determination to achieve results with organization, methodology, competence and willingness.

Much more than a guide for behavior, our Code is our essence. It is built on our purpose of providing excellent service, with transformative investments, governance, best management practices, capital discipline and commitment to the sustainable development of the regions where Germina Brasil operates.

About
the project

New approach for hydro-agricultural production

Baixio de Irecê is the first project in a portfolio of Public Projects for Irrigation (PPI) from the Ministry of Integration and Regional Development (MIDR), in partnership with the Company of Development of Vales do São Francisco e do Parnaíba (Codevasf) and the National Department of Works Against Droughts (Dnocs). The project’s influence area encompasses the municipalities of Xique-Xique and Itaguaçu, in Vale do São Francisco, northwestern Bahia. It is one of the most promising approaches to the Brazilian hydro-agricultural production, covering a total area of 105 thousand hectares, of which about 48 thousand are irrigable.

The PPI is divided into nine phases, of which the first two ones, involving 16 thousand irrigable hectares, are a responsibility of the Federal Government and are already in the occupation stage, with land regularization and infrastructure for production.

Germina’s development in Irecê refers to phases 3 to 9, that include 51 thousand hectares, of which 31.423 are irrigable, which places the company as a protagonist in the challenge of promoting an agriculture with sustainable bases in a very deprived region. The concession area will have an innovative system for the supply of primary resources for food production using irrigation: water, energy, and civil facilities.

Ambitious goals and benefits for 250 thousand people

Germina won the concession of the Irrigation Project of Baixio do Irecê in an auction carried out at B3, in São Paulo, in June 2022. The objective proposed is bold: to substantially boost the region’s economic, social, and environmental development, generating over 180 thousand direct and indirect jobs in the sectors of trade, agriculture, services and industry.

Germina expects to invest around R$ 1.1 billion in Baixio do Irecê over the 35 years of concession. In total, we estimate that 250 thousand people will benefit, directly and indirectly, in the area covered by the project.

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