Rocket Farms receives minority business certification

Rocket Farms, headquartered in Salinas, Calif., has been awarded Minority Business Enterprise certification by the Northern California Minority Supplier Development Council. To receive the certification a company must be 51% ethnic-minority owned, operated and controlled by a U.S. citizen.
Rocket Farms owners Sergio Silva, president, and Charles Kosmont, CEO, have been with the business since the parent company’s inception in 1982. The VeriFlora-certified company operates 5.5 million sq. ft. of greenhouses, including 40 acres of organic-certified production. Its major crops are orchids, poinsettias, culinary herbs and vegetable plants.