The Happy Village Project, initiated by Işık Tarım in 1991, is a holistic sustainability project. The Happy Village Project not only enables more than 4000 farmers registered in the project to switch to organic agriculture, but also focuses on the protection of the natural life balance in the land and gardens, and attaches great importance to the training of farmers and their seasonal workers in this regard. The main elements of the project are to train the seasonal workers working in the fields and gardens of our organic farmers registered in the Happy Village Project, especially during the harvest period, to work in fair and good conditions, to meet their needs, and to contribute to rural development.
We promote organic farming and good agricultural practices for environmental protection.
We create a big synergy among Işık Tarım people, clients, growers, consumers and everybpdy in our community.
We ensure good working conditions for harvest workers and their families.
All fruits and hazelnuts we offer can be traced directly to the source and farmer who grew them.
We support rural development by making lives easier and better in rural areas.
Farmers
Villages
M2 Land converted to organic land
Apricot, Hazelnut, Grape, Fig, Strawberry, Cherry, Mulberry
The Işık Tarım Agricultural Team provides regular training to farmers registered in the Happy Village to raise awareness and support production in accordance with organic standards of different countries.
Our organic farmers registered in the Happy Village Project need intensive seasonal workers, especially during harvest periods, to collect their products. Işık Tarım provides orientation, occupational health and safety, hygiene, and sanitation training to workers who come to collect products in fields and gardens for 1-2 months, to create workers who own the product, are conscious and educated. In addition to training, we have numerous projects certified under Fair for Life, Certified Fair Trade, and Rainforest Alliance to ensure that seasonal workers live and work under fair and good conditions.
According to the sustainability approach:
We are determined to reduce our impact on the environment for today and future generations. In addition to taking steps to reduce our own carbon footprint, we supply clean and renewable energy to power most of our facilities. This helps us use energy more efficiently and reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.
Thanks to the solar panels we installed on the roofs of our dried fruit and frozen fruit factories, we saved 7,464 trees in 2022.
