Agroponiente 首席执行官 Imanol Almudi（持有 Kimitec 吉祥物 Marcelino）和 MAAVi Kimitec 首席执行官 Félix García。
农作物 和 Kimitec 的 MAAVi 创新中心 have recently signed a MAAVi Lab, a strategic collaboration agreement aimed at accelerating Agroponiente’s transition towards zero residue production.
“If we intend to become a market leader, we need to be at the head of zero residue production, and Kimitec is the right partner to help us boost our transition towards real sustainability,” explained Agroponiente’s CEO, Imanol Almudí, during the MAAVi Lab signing event. “Sustainability is the pillar on which we are building the future of Agroponiente, and that is why our current business strategy focuses on the elimination of pesticides and other chemicals from our production processes.”
To achieve that, Kimitec’s MAAVi Innovation Center will analyze the agronomic needs of Agroponiente, to develop natural products for pest and disease control that can replace conventional chemical alternatives, while maintaining or even increasing their efficacy and productivity levels but excluding any kind of environmental impact.
“Our goal is to walk hand-in-hand with Agroponiente throughout their transition towards a residue-free food production system over the next few years,” points out Félix García, Kimitec’s CEO. Thus, this new MAAVi Lab will accelerate Agroponiente’s corporate environmental policy, which has already allowed the company to reduce their carbon footprint by over 45% over the last year and ensure their compliance with several #SDGs included in the United Nations Global Compact, such as sustainable productions systems, efficient use of water resources, reduction of food waste, and proper recycling management.
Furthermore, Agroponiente’s MAAVi Lab will also aim to increase productivity, improve the organoleptic properties, and the postharvest shelf life of fruits and vegetables, and reduce the environmental impact of the company.
由于最新的欧洲和全球战略和政策限制在农业中使用化学产品，寻找与合成化学品一样有效和具有成本效益的天然解决方案已成为许多需要保持作物生产力的公司的优先事项和盈利能力。
食品生产系统的这种转变，使其更健康、更可持续，并完全符合欧洲绿色协议及其“从农场到餐桌”战略中确立的目标，必须为种植者和生产者提供新的工具，帮助他们度过这个新的阶段法律方案，而不影响其经济盈利能力。
Producers are starting to wonder: Who will look for an answer to their problems? Who will support them in finding the solutions they need? Who can they turn to? That is why the MAAVi Innovation Center created the MAAVi Labs, agreements through which they make their R&D&I capabilities available to all producers, big and small, to help them find real solutions to recurrent agronomic problems, building upon Kimitec’s 15 years of experience in researching natural compounds and the potential offered by the largest biotechnology center in Europe. These strategic alliances are based on an active listening approach and a profound understanding of the challenges faced, and finalize with the development of a product, contrarily to what other research centers offer.
The ban on certain active ingredients as a result of Europe’s Farm to Fork strategy makes production considerably more difficult. “The market is changing. Sustainability is no longer negotiable, but a must we gladly accept with the determination to completely revolutionize the industry,” says Almudí.
“在农业行业，生产者采取两种不同的立场：有些人积极寻找解决方案，有些人只是等待找到解决方案后做出反应，”García 补充道
阿尔梅里亚和西班牙需要向前迈进，不惜一切代价避免销售，并建立差异化价值，使他们能够实现更高的盈利能力，例如自然生产、可持续性、质量和更长的收获后寿命，解释说加西亚。 “研发将是一个有价值的工具，但还会有其他工具，例如农业实践的数字化和无人机的使用，”他说。
什么是 MAAVi 实验室？
“这些协议针对的是大型生产商，他们预计农业部门即将发生变化，并希望在保持或提高生产力的同时率先实现零残留，”García 解释道。
“A MAAVi Lab is our way to focus on a specific problem in the fields of agriculture, livestock, aquaculture, agro-industry, cosmetics, etc., and establish a collaboration for the development of innovative, sustainable solutions,” he adds. “Aiming to reduce losses, increase production, put our expertise in biotechnology and all the resources available at our research center at the service of the market, achieve zero residues and sustainability in industrial processes, and find natural molecules capable of replacing chemical substances, these strategic projects are led by the MAAVi and targeted at any company committed to change.”