Extremadura Agro-food RTD Centre

Extremadura Agro-food RTD Centre

Organisation type: 
Research organisations
Network / partnership
Stakeholders
Food chain
Manufacturer
Country: 
Spain
Short name: 
CTAEX
Description: 

CTAEX is a private non-for-profit R&D Centre founded in 2001 as the result of a business association between SMEs and co-operatives from the agro-food sector. Today, CTAEX keeps on bringing competitiveness to its associates and collaborators  all along the food chain thanks to its Agriculture, Food Technology, Engineering and Bioanalytical departments

In particular, CTAEX´s Agricultural Department has at its disposal green houses and 23 hectares of experimental farms (“ECO” certified among them) indicated for pot trials and large scale cultivation. The R&D lines of this Dept. cover a wide variety of experiences. Especially important those regarding: Aromatic and medicinal plants (60 species already domesticated), Horticultural crops (above all processed tomato) and olive grove (both for the production of olive oil and table olives).