As an umbrella organisation of the 5 most important fruit and vegetable producer organizations within Belgium, LAVA is active in 3 different domains. LAVA supports the producer organisations at the level of commercialisation (sales) of Belgian fruit and vegetables, quality control and management of the Flandria quality and production guidelines, co-ordination of scientific research, and the promotion of our fruit and vegetables, in close collaboration with VBT and VLAM.

To guarantee the uniform quality of products supplied through the different producer organisations, a co-ordination task is performed by the departement of quality: management of the normative guidelines and supervisory quality control are examples of the objectives of this department. More can be read under “Quality“.

The fruit and vegetable sector is a never-ending story of research and development. To streamline the efforts within this domain, LAVA collaborates with various universities and research stations to provide the producers with the latest information about the state of the art scientific research. More can be found under “Research“.