15/06/2023

The president of CTA, Beltrán Pérez, participated today in a forum organized by the newspaper VozPópuli on “Tourism and Agribusiness: Promoting the strategic sectors of Andalusia”, where he defended the importance of innovation to achieve a more competitive and sustainable and increase their margins.

Specifically, Pérez has participated in a round table on digitalization, innovation, internationalization and sustainability of the Andalusian agri-food sector, together with the president of Landaluz, Álvaro Guillén; the general director of Asaja, Félix García de Leyaristi; the vice president of Asociafruit, José Rodríguez; and the manager of the Seville Rice Growers Association, Eduardo Vera. Furthermore, the round table was preceded by an intervention by the Secretary General of Agriculture, Consolación Vera.

Pérez pointed out that the Andalusian agri-food sector has made a significant effort to accelerate its innovation in recent years. “We have innovative farmers, cooperatives and companies, aware of the need to maintain a stable R&D&I strategy to remain competitive and increase their margins,” he noted and added that, “however, there are still many technological challenges for the sector and we must continue to increase the effort and extend it to more farms and companies.

CTA, committed to the agri-food sector

The Agri-Food sector is one of the 7 strategic areas for CTA and we have been promoting and supporting digital transformation and innovation in the agricultural sector for almost 18 years with 83 agricultural R&D&I projects incentivized with €15.5 M in incentives that They have mobilized €44.72M of private investment and have subcontracted more than €9M to more than a hundred public research groups.

Among the CTA member companies in the agri-food sector, we can highlight innovative entities such as Agro Sevilla, Aurora Intelligent Nutrition, Heineken, Herba Ricemills, Grupo La Caña, Covap, Bioplagen, AGQ Labs, Biomasa del Guadalquivir, Tepro, Bionaturis, Kaura Coproducts, Cajamar and Caja Rural del Sur.

Furthermore, CTA is a reference partner in international innovation projects funded by the European Union and more than 22 of the projects we are part of are related to the agri-food sector: Biobec, Robin, Biotransform, Track, Gen4olive, Connecteo, Urbiofuture , Diva, Superbio, MPowerBIO, Agrobridges, Zerow, Biomasstep, Bioswitch, Excornseed or Bio4Africa are some examples.

Likewise, we are members of Andalucía Agrotech, the first Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) that has achieved European recognition and which aims to respond to the needs of the Andalusian agri-food sector.

In short, CTA is committed to the Andalusian agri-food sector and we offer our expert advice, our network of contacts and financial support to accelerate innovation in the sector.