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Participating and collaborating organisations
AGACA. Asociación Galega de Cooperativas Agroalimentarias
AGACA is made up of 97 cooperatives in the agri-food sector, bringing together 34 000 members and generating 2330 million euros annually. Together, AGACA’s member cooperatives employ around 6000 people. The sectors they cover are dairy, meat, horticulture, plants and flowers, beekeeping, and some organisations have credit sections.
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PROLIGAL – Productores de Olivas de Galicia, S. Coop. Galega
PROLIGAL makes approximately 20 ha of olive groves available to the project under different conditions and of different ages, in the 4 Galician provinces, to carry out the planned field trials. It has the mechanical resources needed to perform all the cultivation work required for olive growing. It has a technical service, including an agricultural engineer who provides advice on olive cultivation for the cooperative.
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Aceiteros del Águeda SAT
Aceiteros del Águeda has its own olive groves, mainly of the Zorzal de Arribes variety, where the proposed field experiments can be carried out. It also has a small oil mill for processing small quantities and producing extra-quality EVOO. It has staff with expertise in olive cultivation and an oil mill master with more than 15 years’ experience producing quality oils.
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Luque Ecológico
Luque Ecológico began organic olive cultivation 25 years ago and has experience managing various abiotic stresses (variation in soil pH, lack of water) and biotic stresses (peacock spot, olive fruit fly, etc.) using only products authorised for organic farming. It has 250 ha cultivated under different systems, from traditional to intensive and finally hedgerow cultivation.
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Association for Integrated Rural Development of the Salamanca Sierras (ADRISS)
It makes its members’ olive plantations available to the project to carry out the experimental plan on variety adaptation, irrigation, fertilisation and resistance of the different varieties to abiotic and biotic conditions.
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Institute for Sustainable Agriculture – Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
The Institute for Sustainable Agriculture – Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has participated for decades in numerous regional, national and international research projects related to olive cultivation in all its aspects, including the study of variety behaviour and how varieties are affected by climate and biotic and abiotic stresses, crop management, irrigation, fertilisation and the use of molecular markers.
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Andalusian Institute of Agricultural, Fisheries, Food and Organic Production Research and Training (IFAPA)
It has more than 50 years of experience in prospecting, maintaining and evaluating olive varieties and the International Olive Germplasm Bank it preserves. This Bank is the best documented and houses the largest number of varieties in the world.
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Technological Agricultural Institute of Castilla y León (ITACYL)
It has multiple laboratories, greenhouses and a farm with more than 20 ha of agricultural land for research, as well as years of experience developing R&D&I projects related to the main woody crops of Castilla y León.
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Centro Tecnolóxico da Carne
It has participated in several olive cultivation projects through its agri-food production, environment and territory department. It has the necessary staff, including doctors, agricultural engineers, food technologists and laboratory personnel, for physicochemical, chromatographic and sensory analyses through a tasting panel.
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