S’Atra Sardigna Cooperative is the largest producer in the organic sector in Sardinia, organized to satisfy the regional, national and foreign market, a reality which has grown over the years thanks to difficult but successful choices. Its strength lies in the fact that it has managed to gather more than 100 members representing over 300 Sardinian organic fruit and vegetable producers and livestock producers, offering a selection of the best organic producers of the island.

Behind the Cooperative there are many stories and realities sharing great values of which S’Atra Sardigna is the representative: from the beginning, in fact, the greatness of the brand has been linked to the principles on which the Cooperative has built its whole activity – collaboration and support for local producers, respect for the environment and the final consumer – always putting the spotlight on the principles of environmental sustainability and cooperation.

Founded in 1982 as a small company, S’Atra Sardigna Agricultural Cooperative initially dealt with earthworm breeding. Then, it began to take its first steps in the sectors of vegetables and pecorino cheese.

In the early 1990s, it started to export organic products, such as pecorino cheeses and vegetables, which were sold on the German market directly to German regional distributors of specialized shops, thus managing to skip the steps of national intermediation.

In 1994 there was a further increase of 50% in its annual turnover, thanks, above all, to the growth on the foreign market: the Cooperative, which initially used public money for the investments made up to that moment, determining its growth, proudly decided to give up the community contributions for the organic sector; their philosophy is that the accounts must first of all balance with the sales volume!

The Cooperative followed a further growth path and, in 1997, the first lot of the new Packaging Plant was built – an investment of one billion Lire – while in a little less than two years the turnover exceeded 4 billion Lire.

In the following year, also following the “mad cow” scandal, the entire national and European organic sector exploded, leading to a growth of almost 25% in the Cooperative sales volume: the business partners in this period have become about eighty. The Agricultural Cooperative S’Atra Sardigna is definitively confirmed as a great reality in the organic sector. Since 2003, it has been officially structured as a Producer Organization. Fruit and vegetable producers and livestock producers entered the Cooperative as new members: the membership base was then close to 90 associates.
This growth also required not only strengthening the internal activities, such as the technical office, but, in the following year, also expanding the production line:

in fact, a new tomato processing line for the Camone variety was put into operation and, immediately after, an investment was made in a European prototype machine to process vine tomatoes.
At the end of 2007, the total turnover rose to over 4 million euros. This year also marked the launch of the fourth store in Quartu Sant’Elena, near Cagliari.

In those years, S’Atra Sardigna explored the foreign market with more conviction and expanded the commercial office. In 2010 there was a further growth of the stores in Cagliari, with the opening of the fifth one in Via dei Visconti, and the renovation of the Emporio in Vico Barone Rossi, larger and more rational.
In the meantime, the sales volume exceeded 5 million euros and the producer members became 100.

In 2011, with six stores to its name, the Cooperative chose to tackle decisively the catering segment in line with the idea of agriculture, rural development and nutrition that has always characterized its activity: producing while protecting the environment and consumers’ health.