AGROINTEC SOLUTIONS

Technology-based company aimed at the agri-food sector, providing innovative and cutting-edge solutions.

• General Characteristics

  • ACTIVITY: Engineering and Consulting for the Agri-Food Sector.
  • LOCATION: 
    • Main Office: Calle Regaliz, 6. 04007 Almería.
    • Commercial Office: Calle Eduardo Vicente, 7 – Centro Kunlabori. 28028 Madrid.
    • Technical Office: Scientific Headquarters of the PITA – Campus of the UAL. 04120 La Cañada, Almería.
  • DATE OF ESTABLISHMENT: 28/08/2007. 
  • CATEGORY: SME.
  • CONTACT: (+34) 950 803 998.

• Business Structure

  • NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: 14.
  • REVENUES: –
  • GENERAL DESCRIPTION: a company dedicated to the design, development, and implementation of innovative and technologically advanced solutions aimed at various public and private entities in the agri-food industry, with a special focus on the seed sector and plant improvement.
  • BUSINESS LINES: 
    • Software Engineering. Both with our proprietary NOAH solution for managing plant germplasm and breeding (www.noah-erp.com), as well as with the integration of business solutions like SAP Business One, data visualization through Power BI, and traceability of agri-food products using blockchain technology on IBM’s Food Trust platform.
    • Agro-Industrial Engineering. Both with our Seedmach equipment line for packaging, treatment, and handling of seeds (www.seedmach.com) and through the provision of consulting services for industrial projects in the agri-food sector.
    • Agricultural Engineering. Development of projects for both the recovery and/or reintroduction of NUS varieties and the identification and evaluation of new plant species of agricultural interest, as well as the formalization of their respective crops.
    • Horticultural Seeds. With the design and development of traditional breeding programs, and prebreeding based on mutagenesis, for obtaining new pure lines using techniques of dihaploidy and polyploidy. We also have specialized equipment for designing and developing new molecular markers that allow optimizing traditional genetic improvement processes.
  • INFRASTRUCTURE: 
    • Laboratory for analysis and extraction of bioactive compounds.
    • Industrial laboratory for designing and manufacturing prototypes and small machinery.
    • 3D Design and Printing of mechanical elements.
    • Farms for agricultural trials. 
  • INTERESTING DATA: </strong;as members of Biovegen (the Spanish platform for plant biotechnology), of the CultIVA Network (an initiative supported by the Latin American Program of Science and Technology for Development – CYTED), or ClanAgro (Business Cluster specialized in the Almería Agricultural Model); and as members of various research consortia we are affiliated with, including the National Center for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC), the Biomedical Research Center of Granada (CIBM-UGR), the Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries Research of Andalusia (IFAPA), the Institute for Conservation and Improvement of Agrodiversity of Valencia (COMAV-UPV), and the Group of Agriculture and Environment in Arid Zones at the University of Almería;  we have an ideal ecosystem to tackle large-scale projects in the field of plant biology.

• R&D Activities/Interests

TECHNOLOGICAL OFFER/DEMAND:

  • We are interested in participating in consortia focused on projects related to both plant improvement, management of plant germplasm, or the development of new varieties, as well as issues related to the management of conventional horticultural crops, evaluation and protocol development of new crops, or those related to plant nutrition and the production of biofertilizers.

• Participation in projects

PROJECTS UNDER DEVELOPMENT

  • Argan Operational Group. Design and implementation of a project for the reintroduction of argan cultivation as an alternative to olive growing. Project developed in collaboration with the University of Córdoba, the Andalusian Germplasm Bank, and the companies Cortijo de Frías and Olivar del Desierto. Autonomous Operational Groups Program 2018 / Junta de Andalucía
  • Biofort. Development of a protocol for the biofortification of vegetables through the management of their cultivation. Project developed in collaboration with the Agriculture and Environment in Arid Zones Group at the University of Almería. Own funding
  • CleanSeeds. Evaluation of physical technologies for fungicidal and bactericidal treatment of vegetable seeds without the application of chemical products. Project developed in collaboration with the Plant Pathology Group at the IFAPA Center in La Mojonera (Almería) and the American multinational Yofumo Technology Inc. Own funding

COMPLETED PROJECTS

  • Neotec HSV. Development of equipment for seed counting, using artificial vision technology, and its automatic packaging. NEOTEC 2016 / CDTI
  • Dustex-Red Spider. Evaluation and design of strategies for controlling red spider pests in citrus crops through dust suppression techniques on paths. Project developed in collaboration with IFAPA and the Norwegian company Borregaard Self-financed