About La Madrague

SARL LA MADRAGUE is a trading company from the group AGRI CAROTTES managed by the CHARPENTIER and PROFFIT families.

We are independant producer in the south west of France. Our vegetables are grown from our own fields and packed in our own conditioning site.

Our vegetables

Salsify

Soft and sweet

Scorzonera should not be confused with salsify, which has yellow skin and has practically desappeared from our shelves. Scorzonera is less fibrous and is tastier with a gentle, sweet flavour.

Sweet potato

Children love it !

We plant our sweet potatoes in May under the west-southern French sun, in a sandy soil that is well-drained and nice and warm. This ensures optimal root development.

Carrot

Grown in the sands of the Landes de Gascogne Regional Nature Park

The cultivation of carrots requires soft and light soil, allowing natural drainage. Cultivated in the sands, the carrots find an ideal soil.

Sustainable agriculture

A responsible, environmentally-friendly agriculture

A comprehensive understanding of our soil ensures that we are able to use responsible, environmentally-friendly farming techniques that are respectful of our fauna and flora.

We carry out a systematic analysis of our soil so that we understand its chemical composition and requirements in terms of micronutrients and nutrients, which means that we only add the essential supplements to ensure a good management of our crops. All our land is located in the Parc Naturel Régional des Landes de Gascogne, which means that we are permitted to use a limited amount of fertiliser only. This fertiliser is added progressively over the course of the natural growing cycle.

We don’t use any insecticide in the growing cycle of our carrots, except in the event of a major pest invasion. If necessary we use natural insecticides that we apply overnight in order to protect the bees from harm.

Our farms are amongst those farms pioneering non labour-techniques and the use of Simplified Crop Techniques (SCT) in the Landes. We pay particular care and attention to our soil capital, handed down to us by our grandparents, and aim to develop its biological activity. This explains why we banished soil disinfection as a practice more than 15 years ago. This process, which consists of injecting the soil with a powerful disinfectant, has devastating effects on the environment because it destroys all of the micro-organisms living in the soil.

In parallel, the long crop rotations that we practice allow the soil to rest and replenish itself naturally. We only grow the same vegetable on a particular plot of land every seven years as our aim is to preserve existing ecosystems and to reduce the use of phytosanitary products.

To resume

10000 tons

of carrots per year

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full-times employees

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local producers

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of sweet potatoes per year

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conditioning site

0 pesticides

residue certified crops

Quality

Sanitary control and certifications

Our quality control manager ensures that we comply with regulations and hygiene requirements within our companies and the quality of our vegetables.

Thanks to her diligent work and with the help of all the teams, our companies have been certified ISO 9001 – 14001 – GlobalGap – BRC – IFS and TESCO Nurture. These international certifications which are renewed each year ensure complete control of our vegetables from planting to consignment. They highlight our commitment to traceability and food security.

For each of our plots of land, we get both the soil and the vegetables analyzed by COFRAC-certified laboratories, so that we can guarantee our customers total food security.

This is why we have been supplying one of the leaders in baby food production with carrots for over 30 years.

Our story

LA MADRAGUE, a limited liability wholesale trading company, was created in 2002 and is a subsidiary of a family-owned group whose first farm, the SCEA CANTEGRIT, was founded in 1968 by Nicole and Jean Ferry in Saugnac-et-Muret in the Landes area of south-western France. They produced wheat, maize and potatoes up until the 1890s.

In 1985, the SCEA CANTEGRIT diversified into carrot production. Since then, thanks to the modernisation of our production tools and the installation of an optical sorting machine – a revolutionary design at the time – we have been able to develop a product with more than a hundred references since the acquisition of the SCEA MADROUQUES in 1996.

Today the group is still managed by the Charpentier and Proffit families. The involvement of all the family members and members of staff has enabled us to improve our growing and production techniques even further, whilst still being attentive to the needs of our customers. In parallel to our « traditional » carrot production, we are producing new crops today such as parsnips, sweet potatoes and salsifies.

Contact-us

La Madrague

Route de Sore
33113 Saint Symphorien

Phone: +33 5 56 65 71 53

E-mail : info@la-madrague.fr

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