Sustainability
BREEDING FOR CLIMATE RESILIENCE HAS BEEN INTEGRAL TO SUN WORLD SINCE THE COMPANY PIONEERED SEEDLESS GRAPE VARIETY DEVELOPMENT MORE THAN 30YEARS AGO. A BREEDER WHO FOCUSES ON SUSTAINABILITY, AS DOES SUN WORLD, IS ONLY AS GOOD AS ITS GENETICS AND SUN WORLD’S TABLE GRAPE GENETICS ARE UNPARALLELED.
Today, Sun World is harnessing the power of emerging technologies to transcend our role in variety development
en route to a highly scalable and ever more diverse genetics’ platform built on sustainability.
Constantly improving our licensees’ ability to maximize yield; reduce water and pesticide use; and grow varieties
that are more disease and climate-resilient, are what propel us to constantly innovate.
The stakes for feeding the global population have never been higher.
This is what keeps the people of Sun World up at night.
Sun World has a very reputable, reliable brand. As a grower, it gives you confidence planting Sun World varieties because you know that they’ve gone through a lot of testing and development work to get to that point. It takes a lot of the “guesswork” and risk out for us.
Niël and Lara Kirsten
Managing Director and Sustainability and Compliance Manager, JD Kirsten
When we collaborate with high-quality breeders like Sun World, we have very accurate projections for yield, which goes a long ways towards reducing our food waste. It allows us to become a more sustainable business.