Shadian & Co

Shadian is a French Afghan company specialized in licorice roots since more than 15 years with the main factory in Mazar e Sharif and several harvest points in Tajikistan and Kazahestan. The company employs nearly 40 workers in low season and 100 workers in high season and has the advantage of selling directly to final clients across the world with no intermediary and keeping the added value where the harvesting and collecting were done.

Over the past few years, Shadian has developed various products to match the international demand, and more particularly the peeled licorice which is done mechanically. It gives the advantage of offering those products to the international markets with a very low percentage of ochratoxine which is now regulated by the European Union (EU). Tajik and Afghan licorice are known as one of the best wild licorice in the world because of its particular climate, high plateaus, culminating at 800 meters and plus, which gives the licorice a unique flavor and a high percentage of Glycyrrhizin acid. The licorice root is proposed in the form of extract powder, peeled licorice sticks & powder and sticks of all sizes.

For the past years, Shadian has been working with important international companies in the licorice field creating a close collaboration and the opportunity to exchange information’s to develop new products with them. Therefore, she has a better knowledge of the international demand and more especially of Western companies which enables her to know how to work under their guidelines and to respect their specifications.

Your Advantage to work with us

• Working directly with an harvesting and collecting company in Middle East
• New industrial continuous dryer which allows to obtain 20 tons dry licorice root per day during winter season
• 2016/2017 CSR (corporate social responsability) Bronze medal with Ecovadis (supplier sustainability ratings) www.ecovadis.com
• Traceable products
• No intermediary
• Development of new products under clients’ guidelines and specifications controlled by our French engineer
• Western management
• Mono product factory
• Exclusive French forwarder for the delivery with a complete insurance door-to-door including inside Middle East .

Ethics

In a country dominated by men, female jobs are virtually non-existent. Our approach to engaging women in production is not totally uninterested. Women bring precision and patience, competence in which men are far behind particulary in qualitative selection and cutting which are two important steps.
Gender balance optimizes production.
70% of our workers are women !

Respect for communities and heavy involvement in local development. Bring togethere thnic diversity within a joint and participatory project. Guarantee eco-friendly management. Training in teaching environment-friendly agricultural practices. Recognition, respect and valuation of people’swork.

Quality Insurance

Since 2016 the company was distinguished by Ecovadis by a bronze medal as far as the Corporate social responsability is concerned. www.ecovadis.com
Since 2007, in order to guarantee the plant’s traceability, the company has implemented a system where each harvester keeps a “harvest file” for each batch harvested.

• The dates on which the site was accessed and the harvest dates
• The plant batch references
• The variety, the volumes
• The zones harvested
• Details regarding adverse weather conditions

• Selection of the region in relation with the client’s need (glycyrrhizin acid for example).
• Defining the diameter and length which are different from one client to another
• 2 steps of Hand selection before cutting
• 1 step of Hand selection is added for peeled licorice root

• Several quality checkpoints that start from harvesting regions till the factory, management of raw licorice root
• Human management: qualified and experienced people in the right workstation, improvement of skills
• Fit to purpose with regards to product specifications
• Right first time: correction of the mistakes for a better quality and work