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Company Profile:
Star Farm (Metro Group owned Company) is a consultancy firm providing consultancy for;
Enabling the Food Supply Chain to be directed towards Global High End Markets
Star Farm established its head office in China in 2007, Star Farm China has trained over 7000
enterprise employees, provided consultation to more than 700 agro/food companies and more than
2000 high quality products with Star Farm logo and traceability barcodes are available on all over
hypermarkets in China.
Star Farm Pakistan (Pvt.) Ltd. started operations in Pakistan on 1st April, 2011, the name and business
strength that has been earned by our organization today, is due to the professionally equipped staff,
who have been trained from China. The Company has trained over 150 government employees (100
Agri / 50 Livestock) and 260 private employees, provided consultation to more than 55 agro/food
Suppliers, more than 21 high quality product categories under Star Farm Traceability System, after
getting training from Star Farm Pakistan, 14 Farm Bases have achieved Global GAP Certifications
and 08 companies have achieved IFS Certifications.
International Agriculture & Food Standards;
Agriculture is developed to be standardized, in this regard World has a renown standard
named Global GAP (Good Agricultural Practices). This is the standard ensuring food safety,
best crop management and productivity enhancement techniques at the farm level.
The safety of food is ensured at the processing level by the IFS (International Featured
Standard. This is a unique standard in the world which covers the management system along
with product safety through the whole supply chain, like involved processing brokerage and
logistics.
BRC (British Retail Consortium) is the parallel standard to the IFS. Both include HACCP.
(Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point). All above standards are GFSI (Global Food
Safety initiative) recognized.
Productivity Enhancement;
Star Farm is also recognized for the productivity enhancement of agri commodities, like
crops, fruits, vegetables, livestock, diary and the integrated. A successful value added project
has been working with Bayer Crop Sciences, reducing the post-harvest losses up to 45%.
3 IFS Auditors
2 Marketing/Sales Experts
IGW (International Green Week) is one of the largest exhibitions of food, held since 1926, at the same time, IGW is the
point of origin for the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) with more than 60 departmental ministers. Pakistan
participated in IGW for the first time with a vision TRACEABLE PAKISTAN, with 25 traceable product categories, with total
70 fully traceable and certified products, About 420,000 Visitors came to IGW in 2012. This was a result of mutual
contributions and restless efforts by Government of Punjab and Star Farm Pakistan. Miss Gudrun Kopp State Minister of
Economic Affairs, Berlin, also specially visited Pakistans Pavilion in IGW 2012, and witnessed the potential of Agri Products
of Pakistan which are not only certified with most recognized standards, but also fully traceable till the consumer level.
Training at Hydroponic Farm, Pakistan. Training at Vegetables Farm.
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IFS Exam Held at Marriot Islamabad with IFS-6 Training 21 -24 May, 2012 by Star Farm
collaboration of IFS and Star Farm. Pakistan
Food Safety and Quality: Metro Training at KG Gurmani Agri Farm
Suppliers, Training workshop, 2012 selected by ASF-USAID Project 2012