Va de Agro becomes a benchmark space for innovation in the agricultural sector

Va de Agro becomes a benchmarck space for innovation at the agrifood sector

The headquarters of FEUGA in Santiago hosted last Thursday, September 8, one of the largest events in northern Spain in terms of agri-food and forestry innovation. “Va de Agro”, organized jointly by the Operational Groups PROTEINLEG, AVIENERGY, MICOALGA-FEED and TIRAC, had 16 projects participating in the round table and up to 33 projects in the exhibition area. A success of participation in both participating projects and attendees, with more than 130. The day began with presentations by Javier Pereiro, general director of FEUGA, and Inge van Oost, Isabel Bombal and José Luis Cabarcos, representatives of the European Commission, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAPA), and the Galician Agency for Food Quality (AGACAL), respectively.

After the coffee break, the day continued with the round tables. Co-innovation spaces in which the solutions proposed by different projects in terms of reduction of antibiotics in livestock, new foods, revaluation of by-products and residues and conservation of biodiversity were shared. The GO PROTEINLEG participated in the second of the round tables, in which Silvia Moreno, from MIMIC SeaFood, presented the solutions developed in the innovation project to develop new products, both for human and animal food, rich in proteins of vegetable origin obtained from the sustainable and innovative cultivation of traditional varieties of legumes.

Finally, after the networking lunch in the exhibition area, which included more than 30 regional, national and European projects, the demonstration workshops were held at Hifas da Terra and at the Biological Mission of Galicia (MBG-CSIC). The workshop in Hifas had the participation of the projects MICOALGA-FEED and GREENCASTANEA, two projects in which the Pontevedra firm participates as a partner. In this workshop, attendees were able to learn in greater detail about both projects, and discover the magnificent facilities that the Hifas group has. In the case of the workshop organized by the Biological Mission of Galicia, the PROTEINLEG and ALGATERRA projects participated. Similarly, attendees were able to see the facilities of this CSIC center and explore the details of these innovation projects. The workshop ended with a tasting of the products developed within the framework of the PROTEINLEG project, vegan products that seek to become analogues to fish.