Arax 3 Operational Group: Aragonese Network of Extensive Crops and Legumes
- Type Operational group
- Status In progress
- Execution 2025 -2028
- Assigned Budget 150.000,00 €
- Scope Autonómico
- Autonomous community Aragón
- Main source of financing CAP 2023-2027
- Project website Web del proyecto
The aim is to improve productivity, economic profitability, resource management, and opportunity utilization in extensive farming operations and the cereal-related agro-industry in Aragon. This will be achieved by generating information on the adaptability of varieties, traditional crops, and new crops in the diverse agro-climatic areas of Aragon. 2. To improve the sustainability of farms by reducing fertilizer use while maintaining production and quality. This will be achieved by generating information on the sustainable use of fertilizers in the diverse agro-climatic areas of Aragon. 3. To contribute to information, advisory, and knowledge transfer systems through the consolidation of public-private networks. This will be achieved by maintaining this network and strengthening dissemination and knowledge transfer activities as outlined in the project, and by incorporating technologies in the collection and processing of trial data. 4. To maintain cooperatives as agricultural social structures in the region by involving them in knowledge ownership and transfer.
- Activity 1. Preparation of the call for proposals, drafting of the report and management of the project.
- Activity 2. Development and coordination of trials, application of a protocol evaluation system on ARAX Network farms, and publication of agricultural studies and statistics. This activity will coordinate all trial work by collaborating cooperatives and farmers, including trials of plant material, management practices, and plant nutrition and health. The data collection system will be improved by fully implementing the software application developed for this purpose in the ARAX Network 2 cooperation project. Annual work reports and agricultural statistics documents will be prepared using all the information collected from the trials. From the beginning of each season, work related to extensive crops will be planned at the statistical, demonstrative, and real-world field levels, applying objective, standardized protocols that allow for valid comparison of the results obtained.
- Activity 3. Evaluation of the post-harvest quality of cereal trials in the ARAX Network in Aragon. This activity will involve all the work related to obtaining comparative quality data for selected crops within the network, with the aim of producing value-added products that will be reflected in the markets. The activity will continue with the objective of identifying the new plant material supplied by commercial companies in terms of quality and nutritional potential, for both human and animal consumption.
- Activity 4. Transfer, Communication and Dissemination Activities. This activity is aimed at promoting and ensuring a good transfer of results to the agri-food production sector.
To consolidate, through experimentation, demonstration, and exchange of experiences, a working network that improves the generation and transfer of knowledge in extensive crops in Aragon, and specifically, to enable the economic, social, and environmental sustainability of extensive crop farms in Aragon, which occupy most of the usable arable land, making them competitive and sustainable, improving their productivity, and adjusting the consumption of their inputs.
- Name of entity: Aragonese Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives
- Postal address: PASEO ECHEGARAY Y CABALLERO 32, LOCAL. 50003, ZARAGOZA
- Email: jabadias@aragon.coop
- Telephone: 976474205
- Name of entity: San José Agricultural Cooperative Society
- Postal address: CTRA. PINSORO KM.1, 50670 Sádaba (Zaragoza)
- Email: address@coop-sanjose.com
- Telephone: 976675143
- Entity name: CEREALES TERUEL S.COOP
- Postal address: Atenas Street, 18, 44195 Teruel
- Email: jogelatorre@cerealesteruel.com
- Telephone: 978618038
- Entity name: GALLICUM Aragonese Cooperative Society
- Postal address: Pol. El Campillo, c/ Austria, 11-17, 50800 Zuera (Zaragoza)
- Email: david@coopzuera.com
- Telephone: 976680262
- Entity name: Barbastro Agricultural Limited Cooperative Society
- Postal address: Polígono Valle del Cinca, plot 21, 22300 Barbastro (Huesca)
- Email: info@cooperativabarbastro.com
- Telephone: 974310386
- Federación Aragonesa de Cooperativas Agrarias
- Sociedad Cooperativa Agraria San José
- Cereales Teruel S. Coop.
- Sociedad Cooperativa Aragonesa GALLICUM
- Sociedad Cooperativa Limitada Agrícola de Barbastro