• The trade fair, which will take place on 11, 12 and 13 March, will feature a varied programme of technical presentations and lectures throughout the weekend.
• The commercial exhibition will be made up of companies offering products and services for the agricultural and livestock sector.
• Tickets to attend this second edition of ExpoAgro Canarias can be purchased free of charge, after registering at www.expoagrocanarias.es.

Everything is ready to experience the second edition of the Innovation Fair in the Primary Sector, ExpoAgro Canarias, which returns to Infecar next weekend: 11, 12 and 13 March. This fair will bring together companies and professionals from the islands’ primary sector at the Gran Canarian capital’s exhibition centre, an unmissable networking space for farmers, livestock farmers, suppliers and professionals from the sector.

Promoted and financed by the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, with the collaboration of the Department of Primary Sector and Food Sovereignty, and under the organisation of Infecar, this biennial fair meets again with the primary sector after having had its premiere in 2019 and having had to postpone its 2021 edition due to the health pandemic.

Farmers, livestock farmers, public entities linked to the sector, technological and innovative companies, machinery and tooling companies, irrigation and tanks, greenhouses, etc. participate in this event that is emerging as a benchmark for the sector in the islands.

A press conference was held this Thursday to present the event, with the participation of the Councillor for the Primary Sector of the Gran Canaria Island Council, Miguel Hidalgo; the coordinator of Economic Development, Energy Sovereignty and Climate of the Gran Canaria Island Council, Raúl García Brink; the general manager of Infecar, Natalia Santana and the president of COAG Canarias and of the ExpoAgro Canarias Organising Committee, Rafael Hernández.

“ExpoAgro is born with a regional vocation, as part of an initiative that arises within the framework of the Cultívate Programme jointly developed by the Department of Primary Sector and Food Sovereignty and the Society for the Promotion of Gran Canaria, SPEGC, and executed by Infecar; and whose main objective of the Cultívate Programme is training, advice and technology and knowledge transfer to the island’s primary sector,” said Miguel Hidalgo.

The Councillor of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria pointed out that “ExpoAgro Canarias aims to develop a space for professionals, companies and institutions that contribute to the development of the primary sector; to bring together the supply and demand of products and services in the sector; to show trends and advances in innovation and technology; and to facilitate new business opportunities and the exchange of knowledge”.

This second edition of ExpoAgro Canarias has 38 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; loyalty to existing customers and strengthen the image of the company; as well as know the degree of positioning of their products and services with respect to the competition.

“It is worth highlighting the presence of three delegations from the islands of La Palma, Lanzarote and La Gomera, made up of almost 50 professional visitors, which is evidence of the vocation to be a regional benchmark with which the Innovation in the Primary Sector Fair is being set up”, he concluded.

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 free of charge, after registering at www.expoagrocanarias.es. With just a week to go before it opens its doors, ExpoAgro Canarias has already received registrations from around 700 trade visitors.

“ExpoAgro Canarias is a good example of the cross-cutting collaboration that is taking place in the Cabildo de Gran Canaria and which makes this type of event possible,” said Raúl García Brink during his speech. “Our aim is to bring the 21st century, with all its technological advances, to the primary sector.

The Innovation in the Primary Sector Fair will have “a programme of presentations and technical papers, which can be followed in person and virtually, which will help to bring the latest trends and advances of the moment to professionals in the sector”, García Brink pointed out.

“In this edition, there will be talks on R&D&I, Efficiency and Productive Diversification, Financing, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Smart Farming and Ecological Production, as well as the latest products and services from the exhibitors themselves. Thus, among the speakers will be the Canary Islands Technological Institute, the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the University of La Laguna, Biovegen, Aider… among others,” he added.

ExpoAgro Canarias will also have a space for B2B business meetings in order to make the participation of professionals at the fair as productive as possible. The aim will be to encourage professional meetings between participants, who will be able to set up their meeting agenda for the days of the fair via an online platform, after purchasing their free ticket.

All participants who wish to schedule their meetings for this second edition of ExpoAgro Canarias have until 23.59 on Tuesday 8 March to do so. To do so, simply go to the website www.expoagrocanarias.es.

ExpoAgro Canarias will include two technical visits, one to the Granja Sandra livestock farm in the municipality of Agüimes, which is an example of advanced technology, and the other 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.

The fair, in detail

The programme of presentations at ExpoAgro Canarias will begin at 10.30 a.m. on Friday 11 March with ‘Financing the Agricultural Sector, advance aid and subsidies’, given by Fernando de Miguel García, manager of the Agricultural Sector at Cajasiete. After this, at 11.00 a.m. the official opening of the fair will take place.

From 12. 00 hours, there will be a block of presentations oriented towards productive efficiency and which will deal with the following: ‘Biostimulation – The key tool for profitable and sustainable agriculture’; ‘Innovation and Sustainability in the Agricultural Sector of the Canary Islands’; ‘Methodology for studying 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’.

Exhibitors at the fair who will be giving presentations of products and services on Saturday will be Sermecan; Kaampo; Solmediat; Guillermo O’Shanahan; Citerneo Canarias; Only Solution; RobotDrónica and Agroquímicas Drago.

ExpoAgro Canarias is promoted and financed by the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, with the collaboration of the Department of Primary Sector and Food Sovereignty; 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.