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News
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Legumes to boost cropping systems in the Ebro Valley
Arable crop farms in the Ebro Valley are facing low yields due to high production costs and low cereal prices. To address this problem, research is being carried out on innovative production systems with grain legumes such as chickpeas, lentils and beans. On Thursday,...
Innovation in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for the agri-food sector: Agrifood TEF project presentation in Spain
Innovation and technology were the focus of the presentation event of the Spanish satellite of AgrifoodTEF, the largest project in Europe focused on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in the agri-food sector. The event, which took place yesterday in Madrid, brought...
Genetics to identify more disease-resilient pigs
Researchers from the University of Lleida (UdL) and Agrotecnio have identified some genetic variants that could have a protective effect against porcine respiratory disease complex (PRDC). These are the results of the national research project Resilmarker, led by...
Breakfast4inno speakers advocate for genetically edited rice to fight against rice blast
Teresa Capell, professor at the University of Lleida and researcher at Agrotecnio, has spent decades researching the genetic improvement of rice. Together with Marc Fontquerna, agronomist and rice production advisor at the Agrupació de Defensa Vegetal de l'Arròs de...
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Reseach
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Plant & Environmental sciences
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Animal Sciences
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Food Sciences
Agrotecnio in figures
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Research groups
in plant & environmental, animal and food sciences recognized by the Generalitat de Catalunya.
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Active projects
National projects
International projects
1,817,023 € financial amount. (2019)
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Joint Research Unit with the
Forest Science and
Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC)
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Doctoral Theses
in the University of Lleida (From 2014 to 2020)
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Agrotecnio researchers
Senior researchers
Postdoctoral researchers
PhD students
ICREA Researchers
from 20 countries. 45% of whom are women.
ICREA Academia Researchers
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Scientific publications
annual average. H-Index 55.
%
of our publications are within the 1% most cited papers:
among others in Nature, Nature Climate Change, Science, PNAS (Last CERCA Evaluation, 2018).
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Agreements and special projects
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Global Forest Biodiversity Initiative
the International Wheat Yield Partnership
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Contracts
with companies in the agri-food sector.
Catalan
Spanish
International
(2020) 631,754 € Funds