• – Tickets to attend ExpoAgro Canarias can be obtained free of charge throughout the weekend at www.expoagrocanarias.es.
• The fair has 40 exhibiting companies and more than 1,600 registered professional visitors.
• Technological innovation plays a fundamental role in ExpoAgro Canarias, which is committed to the technification of the sector.

The second edition of ExpoAgro Canarias, the Innovation Fair in the Primary Sector, is already underway. From today until Sunday 13 March, it will bring together companies and professionals from the islands’ primary sector.

The president of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, Antonio Morales; the councillor for the Primary Sector and Food Sovereignty, Miguel Hidalgo; the technical coordinator for Economic Development, Energy Sovereignty, Climate and Knowledge, Raúl García Brink; and Natalia Santana, general manager of Infecar, inaugurated this essential event for farmers, livestock farmers, suppliers and professionals in the sector.

The fair will be open from 10.00 to 19.00 hours on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th, while on Sunday 13th it will be open from 10.00 to 15.00 hours. Tickets to attend this event for the primary sector can be purchased throughout the weekend, free of charge, after registering at www.expoagrocanarias.es.

“These are very difficult times for the sector. We are experiencing a situation that puts at risk what we have always defended as a strategic instrument for the economic diversification of our island, for the conservation of the territory and the landscape, for the reduction of the ecological footprint, to fight fires, to generate local employment… for everything, the survival of this sector is absolutely necessary”, said Antonio Morales during the inauguration.

The president of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria thus highlighted this weekend’s ExpoAgro Canarias, “which was created with the aim of being an instrument for marketing, training and contributing innovation to the development of the island’s primary sector, and which fulfils this function in an extraordinary way”.

Thus, the Innovation in the Primary Sector Fair has more than 1,600 registered professional visitors and 40 exhibiting companies that will have the opportunity during the weekend to connect with new professionals and companies in the primary sector, identify potential customers and expand market share; build loyalty with current customers and strengthen the image of the company; as well as to know the degree of positioning of their products and services with respect to the competition.

ExpoAgro Canarias was created with a regional vocation, as part of an initiative within the framework of the Cultívate Programme jointly developed by the Regional Ministry of the Primary Sector and Food Sovereignty and the Economic Promotion Society of the Canary Islands.

Gran Canaria, SPEGC, and runs Infecar; and whose main objective of the Cultívate Programme is training, advice and the transfer of technology and knowledge to the island’s primary sector.
The fair has three delegations from the islands of La Palma, Lanzarote and La Gomera, with almost 50 professional visitors, which is evidence of the vocation of being a regional benchmark with which the Innovation Fair in the Primary Sector was launched.

ExpoAgro Canarias also has a space for B2B business meetings, with more than 30 professional meetings scheduled, in order to make the participation of professionals in the fair as productive as possible.

Programme of talks and presentations

The programme of presentations at ExpoAgro Canarias began this Friday morning with ‘Financing the Agricultural Sector, advance aid and subsidies’, given by Fernando de Miguel García, manager of the Agricultural Sector at Cajasiete.

From 12. 00 hours, a block of presentations was opened on ‘Biostimulation – The key tool for profitable and sustainable agriculture’; ‘Innovation and Sustainability in the Agricultural Sector of the Canary Islands’; ‘Methodology for the study of isotopic relationships: Applications in the Agri-Food Sector’; ‘The use of hyperspectral technology embarked on drones for agricultural monitoring’; ‘MAPSTIMULANTS, development of latest generation biostimulants for the synthesis of therapeutic molecules in medicinal plants’; ‘Abiopep: Biotechnology at the service of innovation in horticulture’; ‘Artificial intelligence and the agri-food sector’; and ‘Proximity, health and Innovation in cattle farming’.

As far as the presentations by the fair’s exhibitors are concerned, from 17.30 onwards, talks will be given by the University of La Laguna – AD4MAC Project; Cultesa and Smart Compo.

On Saturday, the block of technical presentations will be dedicated to productive diversification, with the following presentations: ‘La Jaira de Ana, farm school as a primary resource for collective awareness’; ‘Convocatoria leader para la Diversificación Productiva del sector agrario’; ‘BIOVEGEN. R+D+i network in plant production’; ‘Medical Cannabis, a new alternative with high added value’; ‘Circular economy in livestock farms’; ‘Key factors for the success of agrobio diversification’; and ‘Sugar cane cultivation in the Canary Islands’.

The exhibitors at the fair who will be presenting their products and services on Saturday will be Sermecan; Kaampo; Solmediat; Guillermo O’Shanahan; Deron Services Canarias; Only Solution; RobotDrónica and Agroquímicas Drago.

On Sunday there will be presentations by the exhibitors: Agromia; Terracan and MEC Suministra.Two technical visits will also take place on this last day, firstly to the Granja Sandra livestock farm in the municipality of Agüimes, which is an example of advanced technology, and secondly to the Fresh Tom Export farm in Ingenio. Professionals interested in taking part in these visits, which have limited seating capacity, must register, free of charge, via the fair’s website.
Finally, on both Saturday and Sunday, there will be a workshop on urban vegetable gardens, where you can learn the basics of how to set up an organic vegetable garden at home. These workshops, which are free of charge, will be held at 17.00 and 18.00 on Saturday and at 11.00, 12.00 and 13.00 on Sunday.

ExpoAgro Canarias is promoted and financed by the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, with the collaboration of the Department of Primary Sector and Food Sovereignty and the Department of Economic Development, Energy Sovereignty, Climate and Knowledge; organised by Infecar; with Cajasiete as official collaborator; and the Society for Economic Promotion of Gran Canaria (SPEGC); the Chamber of Commerce of Gran Canaria and COAG Canarias, as collaborators.