HACCP Certified

The organic certified program have been running for 7 years now with 700+ certified organic farmer all over Tonga.

This program has started to address concerns of the youth of Tonga on Climate Changes issues, Environment Conservation, economic development  and Healthy Living, practicing nature way or go organic is the way to address these concerns.   Positive comments from one of the grower, Sateki a certified organic farm “There is no question that if we need a healthy food system we need to grow our food organically”.

In the past few year TNYC have actively collect coconut from certified grower process these into virgin coconut oil and have sell this locally as well as export to international market such as New Zealand,  U.S and Australia.  It is very clear from this last few year that organic certification is not just the requirement for the export market but very importantly the HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) certification is also needed to market such as U.S, EU, Japan, Australia and New Zealand .

 TNYC with the help from Ministry of Labor and Commerce through the PHAMA (Pacific Horticultural & Agricultural Market Access Program) a DFAT funded program have taken step to help business and growers alike to pay for the HACCP certification to enable grower and business to export their product to the international market.

Last Thursday TNYC have conducted a HACCP preliminary training for staff in the main office as well as the production team in the warehouse in Sopu (where virgin coconut oil, vanilla and coconut milk is being process) to familiarized staff to the HACCP standard as well as upgrading the establishment before the inspection is done.  The training will continue on a weekly basis from now on so that organic product can be export.