Improving the taste of fruits and vegetables cultivated in greenhouses is the objective of a developing project at the Center for Research in Intensive Mediterranean Agro-systems and Agro-food Biotechnology at the University of Almería. By adjusting some of the parameters of the traditional cultivation system, such as shade or ventilation, researchers study how those variables […]
A group of researchers from the IFAPA, The Andalusian Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries Research and Training, is developing two greenhouse prototypes to export them to arid and semi-arid areas, mainly located in the Persian Gulf. Tomatoes, cucumbers or peppers are very hard to cultivate in these areas so they depend on importation.
Entomotech, a company based in Almería, is the only one in Europe which is producing insect flour as an ingredient for animal feed. The University of Almería collaborates with them analyzing different types of insects and its properties to manufacture feed adapted to each species. Insects feed from agricultural waste, so they also solve the […]
Tecomsa, a company based in Almería, is pioneer in Spain offering the complete recycling cycle of vegetable waste, turning them into fertilizer using earthworms, specifically California red earthworms. It takes them eight months transforming the vegetable waste into this worm humus, very beneficial for plants.
