For Immediate Release La Quinta, California

Suite 201, 78080 Calle Amigo La Quinta, California 92253 Phone: 949.903.5906

Thursday, January 28, 2016 Canadian Securities Exchange Symbol: VEG United States OTC Market Symbol: ARDWF 56,198,924 Common Shares Issued

CAPTIVA VERDE PROVIDES OPERATIONAL UPDATE

La Quinta, California – January 28, 2016 Captiva Verde Industries Ltd. (“Captiva Verde” or the “Company”) is pleased to provide an update of the operations since our Sept. 28, 2015 commencement of commercial production. The Company’s strategic plan is to build Captiva Verde into the largest 100% pure play USDA certified organic vegetable producer.

Substantial effort and capital has been deployed to lay the foundation for a very large USDA certified organic vegetable operation. This mission has been accomplished.

Building an operation that attracts the largest and most well respected retail and wholesale food companies as customers, management needed to take, and subsequently undertook, a very aggressive large scale development and build out, avoiding an approach that would simply not offer the scale and size to attract the top players in the organic food industry. Any slower approach to growth, would take years to build, a situation the company could not afford if it were to capture its position in this most dynamic time within the explosive organic food revolution.

Captiva is now recognized as a top USDA certified organic vegetable producer, that is more than capable of very large scale operations. Captiva sells its USDA certified organic products to Dole Fresh Foods, Taylor Foods, Organic Girl, Pacific International Marketing, Fresh Express and a whole host of regional food companies.

Building a company that now has production capacity of 500,000 pounds per week was no simple task, and we are grateful to our shareholders and employees for making this vision and quest a reality. There is no large scale start up company in the world, that does not have its initiating pains, and we are typical of that large undertaking. Management is now focusing from being a seller in the spot market, to marketing 90% of our sales secured by long term produce purchase agreements. It was critically necessary to initiate our large scale undertaking as a spot market seller as world class buyers need to inspect first hand, our capabilities and food safety programs that are essential in the fresh organic produce business.

Captiva has earned both the coveted USDA organic certification, and is also certified food safety compliant under the most stringent food safety certification programs in the industry; grading 99% and 100% in its final grades.

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The first published financial results for the first full period of commercial sales will be reported in the Company’s audited 4th quarter financial statements for the period ending December 31, 2015.

On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Company and for further information, please contact: