Avocado Innovation Task Force. Improving avocado productivity in Malaga, Cadiz, the Valencian Community and the Canary Islands.
- Type Grupo operativo
- Status Filled
- Execution 2019 -2021
- Assigned Budget 365.045,86 €
- Scope Supraautonómico
- Autonomous community Andalucía; Canarias; Comunitat Valenciana
- Main source of financing PEPAC 2014-2020
- Project website https://goaguacatespain.com/
Description
Significantly increase avocado productivity by promoting proper expansion of the crop into new areas, transferring technology related to cultivation techniques, plant material, and biological control.
Objectives
- Define the appropriate areas for the expansion of avocado cultivation, promoting its implementation in an environmentally sustainable manner and with maximum productivity.
- Transfer of avocado cultivation techniques.
- Increase the adoption of appropriate plant material, rootstocks and varieties, in the different soil and climate conditions of Spain.
- Consolidation of an avocado innovation community in Spain, which serves as a benchmark and meets the social, environmental and economic needs of the communities in which avocado cultivation is carried out.
Results
- Definition and delimitation of the optimal geographical area for the efficient cultivation of avocado in the Valencian Community, Cadiz and Malaga (Cartographic Map: https://goaguacatespain.com/mapa/ ).
- Implementation of new cultural techniques for pruning, pollination, improving fruit quality, irrigation, fertilization and plant health.
- Improvement of varietal and rootstock diversity in 40 plots in the pilot area of the project and in its area of influence, as well as in the experimental farm of Sinyent in Valencia (AVA) and the IHSM La Mayora, in Malaga.
- Dissemination of the findings and new technologies developed in the project.
Contact information
asajamalaga@asajamalaga.com
Coordinators
- Asociación Agraria Jovenes Agricultores – Asaja Malaga
- Asociación Valenciana de Agricultores de Valencia (AVA)
- Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterranea “La Mayora” (IHSM la Mayora) Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
- Asociación de Agricultores y Ganaderos de Cadiz (Asaja-Cadiz)
- Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias
- Cooperativa agricola de Callosa d’En Sarià
- CV
- Instituto Canario de Investigaciones Agrarias
Collaborators
- Syngenta España SAU
- Regadíos Iberia Regaber SA
Beneficiaries
- Asociación Agraria Jovenes Agricultores – Asaja Malaga
- Asociación Valenciana de Agricultores de Valencia (AVA)
- Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterranea “La Mayora” (IHSM la Mayora) Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
- Asociación de Agricultores y Ganaderos de Cadiz (Asaja-Cadiz)
- Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias
- Cooperativa agricola de Callosa d’En Sarià
- CV
- Instituto Canario de Investigaciones Agrarias
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