January 24, 2025

Seventy percent of JBS-owned Seara's integrated chicken producers in Brazil use solar power last year

JBS-owned Seara ended 2024 with a significant milestone: 70% of its integrated chicken producers in Brazil use solar energy on their farms.

This figure is 12 times higher than five years ago when only 5.6% of producers used this source of energy. The increase is due to the company's policy of encouraging producers to use solar energy, which takes into account various issues, including items related to sustainability.

In a single year, the production of solar energy at Seara's integrated poultry farms across Brazil totaled 205,182,885.60 kWh – enough to supply a city with approximately 90,000 inhabitants for 12 months.

The farms supplied by solar energy operate across eight states and the Federal District. In São Paulo, almost 78% of the units have adopted photovoltaic panels; in the states of Santa Catarina and Minas Gerais, the percentage is just over 73%.

In addition to guiding and supporting the implementation of panels, Seara has encouraged the installation of photovoltaic panels on farms through a checklist that seeks to recognise good production practices through sustainable actions.

The checklist guides Seara's bonus policy for integrated poultry and pork partners. Along with structural and procedural suitability criteria, sustainability items are also included.

Among the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria, there is the implementation of a programme for the identification, separation, and correct disposal of solid waste and the adaptation of the farms to animal welfare standards. Farms that engage on all three fronts are entitled to a bonus.

- Bloomberg Línea