Patchouli production in Guatemala is a new crop developed ex-nihilo by NELIXIA to offer a sustainable alternative to the market.
NELIXIA’s products
Fundamentals
KNOW THE SOURCE
Working directly with 150 families from the Mam ethnic
INVOLVE AND RESPECT
- Patchouli production provides an additional income.
- Long-term contract with a fixed price.
- 100% of production purchased.
- Agroforestry system allowing the
control of chemicals, and soil conservation.
EMPOWER COMMUNITIES
- Implementation of efficient stoves for every producers.
- Implementation of drinkable water.
- Trainings on waste management.
- Trainings on forest conversation.
The path to poverty elimination
is currently financed by an
end-user client, since 2018.
All the producers are using the
Stoplight methodology.
- Women empowerement : More than 30% of our producers are women.
TRANSPARENCY
100% fully traceable Essential Oil : from the seedling to the oil.
About Patchouli
Botany and production
Pogostemon Cablin is a tropical plant native from India, now grown mainly in Indonesia between 400 to 1,000m above sea level. It is a fast-growing shrub reaching up to 1m high.
Its leaves are very similar to those of mint, but larger. They are extremely fragrant, especially when dried and subjected to a fermentation process.
Botany and production
Pogostemon Cablin is a tropical plant native from India, now grown mainly in Indonesia between 400 to 1,000m above sea level. It is a fast-growing shrub reaching up to 1m high.
Its leaves are very similar to those of mint, but larger. They are extremely fragrant, especially when dried and subjected to a fermentation process.
Our value chain
Guatemala is a very fertile country, with more than 300 microclimates, allowing it to develop virtually any crop.
Learning about the low sustainability and lack of traceability of the patchouli value chain, we decided to develop this new crop in Guatemala, controlling the full value chain.
After a successful R&D in our own fields, we moved to grow this crop partnering with local communities in an agroforestry model, as a way to support those communities through an alternative to their traditional crops.
Our value chain
Guatemala is a very fertile country, with more than 300 microclimates, allowing it to develop virtually any crop.
Learning about the low sustainability and lack of traceability of the patchouli value chain, we decided to develop this new crop in Guatemala, controlling the full value chain.
After a successful R&D in our own fields, we moved to grow this crop partnering with local communities in an agroforestry model, as a way to support those communities through an alternative to their traditional crops.
Our value chain
Guatemala is a very fertile country, with more than 300 microclimates, allowing it to develop virtually any crop.
Learning about the low sustainability and lack of traceability of the patchouli value chain, we decided to develop this new crop in Guatemala, controlling the full value chain.
After a successful R&D in our own fields, we moved to grow this crop partnering with local communities in an agroforestry model, as a way to support those communities through an alternative to their traditional crops.
History of Patchouli
Given the limited existing literature on patchouli and novelty in Guatemala, we set up an R&D protocol to learn how to work locally with this plant. Starting with a 70-year old acclimatized plant, we implemented a 50 ha plantation in order to develop a specific operating manual.
According to our vision and mission of empowerment of local communities, we then transferred the project to Guatemalan communities.
NELIXIA has imagined its own agricultural productions as a research center in order to develop real expertise that could be transmitted to local communities:
- Propagation: Nursery 1 ha – humidity tests, type of ground.
- Plantation dedicated to R&D – Test of shading, association, maintenance, type of cut…
- Drying: Structure on several floors – Tests of drying duration, fermentation …
History of Patchouli
Given the limited existing literature on patchouli and novelty in Guatemala, we set up an R&D protocol to learn how to work locally with this plant. Starting with a 70-year old acclimatized plant, we implemented a 50 ha plantation in order to develop a specific operating manual.
According to our vision and mission of empowerment of local communities, we then transferred the project to Guatemalan communities.
NELIXIA has imagined its own agricultural productions as a research center in order to develop real expertise that could be transmitted to local communities:
- Propagation: Nursery 1 ha – humidity tests, type of ground.
- Plantation dedicated to R&D – Test of shading, association, maintenance, type of cut…
- Drying: Structure on several floors – Tests of drying duration, fermentation …
Patchouli products
Patchouli Essential Oil
Dried leaves of Patchouli are collected from our producing communities and taken to NELIXIA´s facility where it undergoes steam distillation, in stainless steel alambics, resulting in a high quality Patchouli Essential Oil.
VERIFICATION PERFORMED BY:
info@nelixia.com