50th Anniversary Tucai

TUCAI celebrates 5o years since its foundation in 1963 and gears up to fight against desertification with a water-related humanitarian Project.  

Solidarity is one of the values of TUCAI Corporate Culture. In addition to the purely financial sponsorship of the Company Management, to support the construction of a reservoir, a humanitarian action was set up in last December to facilitate donations across all Group employees, Customers and Suppliers in order to provide parallel support. 
This initiative will try to improve the living conditions of the Anantapur population, especially in the field of Education and Healthcare. The program has already raised support that will help fund one parallel project.

Water is an increasingly scarce natural resource and TUCAI Management decided to pay tribute to it because it has given success to its people over the last 50 years. Raising awareness about this problem and implementing actions that can little by little help these populations have also convinced the Group employees that they cannot remain passive. Stopping the devastating desertification from which some of the districts in Andra Pradesh suffer and convert these areas into cultivatable land in order for people to support themselves is one of the objectives of the Vicente Ferrer Foundation. 
 The average annual rainfall in the district of Anantapur is practically half of that in the rest of the state of Andhra Pradesh. Anantapur´s proximity to the equator and its high temperatures have made the area in which the VFF.
 Rural Development Trust works a semi-arid zone, the second driest in all of India.
In a district where 75% of the population depends on agriculture, droughts have a devastating impact among the poorest levels of society. 

 Thus, in 1969, the Foundation implemented a long-term environmental development plan which includes fundamental approaches to ensure the future of the region’s families.
In this context, the construction of a reservoir in B.K. Samudram region supported by TUCAI has already begun. It can hold 53,000 m³ of rainwater and it is located at a very short distance of the village of Pacharumekalapalli. Improving agricultural productivity is crucial and our efforts will increase the amount of land under cultivation and the crop harvests to two per year.
 It will help women who often take several trips every day to gather and transport water on their heads. It is a big handicap for them as they are removed from being able to better care of their children and get a proper education.