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MEKOSTAR

Rau Quả An Toàn Chuẩn Quốc Tế

Rau Quả An Toàn Chuẩn Quốc Tế

Mekostar: Spreading Joy
for 10 Years
Greenhouses are Dream Houses
Herbicide-Free Farming Makes Farmers Happy
Traceability –
Follow that Smile
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Mekostar: Spreading
Joy for 10 Years
Greenhouses are
Dream Houses
Selected for Your
Enjoyment
Traceability –
Follow that Smile
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Our Story

Originating in Vietnam and dedicated to providing Vietnamese consumers with fruits and vegetables grown to international standards, Mekostar has been providing enjoyment to consumers for more than 10 years.  It is a brand of The Fruit Republic, the first fresh produce trading company in Vietnam to establish well-managed contract farming systems and professional fruit and vegetable packinghouses.  These locations provide excellent post-harvest handling and cooling facilities.  Our well-developed systems ensure that we provide consumers with consistently high-quality fruits and vegetables while guaranteeing them safe and healthy food for their table.  

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Our Products

Discover the Variety of Mekostar’s Fruits, Vegetables and Fresh Cut Products

Vegetables

High-quality from the highlands of Da Lat. Mekostar brings you a variety of fresh vegetables, including tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuces, and bell peppers to brighten your plate. See our entire range of vegetables here.

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Fresh from the Mekong Delta. Enjoy Vietnam’s best citrus fruits, pomelos, limes and oranges. Still hungry? Find all of our fruits here.

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Fruits

Fresh Cut

Cut for convenience. Mekostar does the work in their BRC certified fresh cut facility, so that you can focus on the flavor. Choose a mix of honey and pink pomelo or some jackfruit. Check out our entire collection here.

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Our Farms

Mekostar grows its fruits and vegetables in the best locations that Vietnam has to offer, the Mekong Delta for its fruits and the highlands of Da Lat for its vegetables.  In the Mekong Delta we work with GLOBALG.A.P. certified farms to source the best quality pomelos, limes, oranges and other fruits for our customers.  We have also developed the first EU organic lime farms in Asia for customers that want products grown with only natural substances.  In Da Lat, we source our GLOBALG.A.P. certified vegetables from high-tech greenhouses.  We also have a network of farmers with whom we work in close collaboration to introduce best-practices and demonstrate new protocols, varieties and technologies.

Examples of the innovations that we bring to our growing practices are described below:

Greenhouses

Greenhouses

Hydroponic farming

Hydroponic farming

Bio controls

Bio controls

Insect trap systems

Insect trap systems

Automatic root watering technology

Automatic root watering technology

Variety testing

Variety testing

Organic Farming

Organic farming

Strong Partnerships

Strong Partnerships

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Greenhouses

Greenhouses are one of the most advanced technologies currently applied in high-tech agriculture. The greenhouse is designed to extend the growing season by controlling the environment, whether it be the growing temperature or the amount of water that crops receive. Sensors linked to the roof of our greenhouses help to achieve this by measuring the temperature and humidity conditions and then adjusting the roof panels to allow in more or less air. In addition, because the greenhouse is a closed system, the chance of being affected by pests and diseases is reduced. At the same time the closed system can keep beneficial insects indoors. Reducing unwanted pests and trapping beneficial ones results in healthier plants, which in turn means that less chemicals are needed. In addition, our greenhouse roofs are covered with a special film that helps amplify indoor light and scatter it uniformly so that plants mature at the same time. Moreover, this also prevents harmful UV rays from reaching the plant and stops the formation of condensation, further limiting diseases.

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Hydroponic systems​

Hydroponic farming means that crops are grown in nutrient-rich solutions with substrates, rather than soil. When growing in soil, plants use valuable energy developing elaborate root systems to seek out nutrients and water. Hydroponics brings the nutrients directly to the plant – in the right quantity at the right time. This means that plants can focus their energy on growing fruits, resulting in better quality and faster growing rates. Hydroponic farming also reduces the water needed to grow a crop by as much as 80%, so it is good for the consumer and the environment.

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Bio controls​

Ensuring the quality and food safety of products is a priority on our farms. So we use bio controls, natural solutions, to solve problems related to pests and diseases. These natural solutions include a combination of beneficial insects, fungi and organic soils that can replace chemical pesticides to control diseases and insects that are harmful to plants. Our bio controls are good for the plant, the environment, and you.

Insect trap systems ​

Insect trap systems are used to eliminate or prevent pests. On our farms, we apply two insect trap systems, sticky color traps and pheromone traps to optimize pest prevention and increase quality and food safety for our vegetables. Our traps use attractive colors and smells to lure the insects to a glue mixture that traps the insect and prevents it from attacking the plants.

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Automatic root watering technology ​

Automatic root watering technology delivers water straight to the root, so plants grown in soil do not need to waste energy searching for moisture but can focus on growth. The root watering systems also allow for nutrients to be delivered directly to the root zone. The system operates more efficiently than conventional fertilizer application since the nutrient delivery and uptake can be carefully measured and controlled, reducing the chance of over- fertilization.

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Variety testing​

The controlled conditions of our greenhouses also allow us to conduct variety testing. In these tests new vegetable varieties can be tested to determine optimum growing conditions and to assess their performance against existing varieties – for example we compare yields, shelf-life and taste. Through these tests we can improve the performance of our farms, while also providing valuable insights to our contract farmers, sharing growing protocols and varieties that bring fresher, tastier food to you.

Organic farming​

Organic farming relies on natural methods, such as using natural enemies to control pests in a sustainable way. These natural solutions include a combination of beneficial insects, fungi and organic compost that replace agro-chemicals to control diseases and insects that are harmful to plants. So, they are good for the plant, the environment, and you.

Strong Partnerships

Dalat

Technology sets our farms apart, but at the heart of all of our products is the farmer. By working closely with our contract farmers to share best-practices and to introduce strong protocols we can ensure the freshness and quality of each vegetable that arrives on your table. For instance, our greenhouses are a source of vegetables, but also of knowledge. In addition to variety testing, we regularly invite our contract farmers to join our greenhouse manager and our agronomists for demonstrations of new practices and protocols and to discuss production challenges so that best-practices can be shared across our farmer community. Our agronomists and farm managers also visit contract farmers at their farms to gain better insight into their methods.

In Da Lat Mekostar combines technology, collaboration and a professional team of farmers, agronomists and international experts to bring you the best vegetables in Vietnam.

Mekong Delta

Though organic farming is still only practiced at a small number of farms in the delta, we work closely with our contract farmers to help them develop farms managed using sustainable practices that are good for you and the environment. For example, in 2017 our technical support team worked closely with our contract farmers to eliminate the use of herbicides in all farms supplying to TFR. Farmers replaced the use of these chemicals with cover crops and mechanical weeding and received a price premium for complying with the ban. 

By developing new products and providing one-on-one support to farmers through our team of agronomists, training in practices like pruning and weed control, and access to high-quality inputs, Mekostar delivers the best fruits of the Mekong Delta to your table.

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