Vitapro highlights 2024 sustainability milestones in latest report

PERU – Vitapro, the parent company of Nicovita and Salmofood, reported significant advances in its sustainability agenda this week, outlining how its strategy is reshaping aquaculture practices across Latin America. 

The update, released in the company’s 2024 sustainability report, details how Vitapro is pursuing its goal of making aquaculture more efficient, traceable, and environmentally responsible. 

The company first launched its Sustainability Roadmap in 2021 and says the plan is now delivering measurable impact across economic, environmental, and social areas.

“At Vitapro, we design nutritional solutions every day that enhance the efficiency, profitability, and sustainability of the industry… to innovate with purpose, and to embrace sustainability not as mere rhetoric, but as a way of managing, creating, and growing,” said María Alejandra Rivera, Sustainability and Corporate Affairs Manager at Vitapro.

Key progress areas

Vitapro reported full Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) Feed certification across all its operations in 2025, a milestone it says strengthens traceability and sustainable sourcing practices. 

The company also reinforced food safety and risk-management systems throughout its supply chain.

In 2024, Vitapro expanded its customer-oriented innovations, including INICIO N, a Nicovita-developed nutritional solution for two-phase shrimp farming in Ecuador. 

The company also launched the country’s first mobile automatic feeder for shrimp farms, a system that improves dosing precision, reduces organic waste, and cuts plastic use by 92%.

Environmental management was another focal point. Between 2022 and 2024, Vitapro achieved a 9.6% reduction in its carbon footprint, recovered 92.8% of its waste through circular processes, and completed water-footprint assessments at all its plants. 

The company says these measurements feed into a long-term plan to reduce emissions and plastic use in packaging.

Recognition and governance

These achievements contributed to Vitapro receiving the ESR® Distinction from the Ecuadorian Consortium for Social Responsibility (CERES), which evaluates more than 60 indicators across environmental, social, governance and global-context criteria.

Vitapro also maintains a governance framework aligned with the Alicorp group, supported by board-level committees overseeing corporate governance, audit, investment, and sustainability. 

Policies on ethics, information security, and fair competition, along with a multilingual ethics hotline, reinforce its compliance culture.

Rivera added that leadership in aquaculture is now measured by “real traceability of ingredients, demonstrable reduction of environmental footprint, efficient use of resources, and solutions that improve producer performance,” noting that Vitapro is accelerating progress in 2025.

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