Sponsors
Diamond Sponsors
GCM Variedades Vegetales, AIE
Contact: Charo Marín (direccion@gcmcitrus.com)
GCM Variedades vegetales A.I.E. is a company specialized in research and development of new citrus varieties.
With the objective to increase added value to the process from the breeder to the consumer it has a large project for the recovery and evaluation of new varieties funded by important Spanish citrus producers and trade companies. Among the activities of the project the use of biotechnological and genomic tools to obtain new triploid and diploid seedless mandarin varieties is included in collaboration with different research institutions.
Agrupación de Viveristas de Agrios S.A. (AVASA)
Contact: Francisco Llatser (fllatser@gmail.com)
Citrosol
At CITROSOL we have a passion for maintaining the shelflife of your products, ensuring that your fresh fruit reaches the consumer without losses, with all its flavour, with the longest possible life, just as you picked it, at the best moment for its consumption. Our ADVANCED POSTHARVEST SOLUTIONS include CITROSOL A S UE, the first wax for citrus that dries at low temperatures, the ZERO SPILL SYSTEM® which maintains maximum effectiveness in treatments, and the Fortisol Ca and Fortisol Ca PLUS phytofortifiers, which are effective in controlling postharvest decay and rind breakdown.
Platinum Sponsors
Club de Variedades Vegetales Protegidas (CVVP)
CVVP is a non-profit association founded in 2008 by a group of important citrus producers and trade companies. The number of members has increased steadily and now is a reference at national and international level. CVVP has developed a model to increase the value of varieties through an efficient management of intellectual property. It makes inspection, control and certification with the objective to have a harmonised system among growers, traders and variety owners that produce higher benefits for all partners. CVVP is now managing the variety Nadorcott for Spain and Portugal and M7 for Europe.
Citrus Genesis
Citrus Genesis is an international group of highly specialized companies dedicated to developing and managing new citrus cultivars. Our policy is to support key breeders financially and to develop a wide grower base for their new varieties as well as the right marketing strategy to incentivise their consumption for the benefit of all stakeholders: the breeder, grower, retailer and final consumer. Grower-Partners who join our association gain access to the best breeding programmes in the world which are now producing the next generation of citrus varieties. Our current portfolio includes a number of unique and exclusive citrus cultivars with highly enhanced quality attributes.
Anecoop
Anecoop is a Spanish second – tier agricultural co-operative organisation made up of 79 agricultural co-operatives all over Spain. Being the Mediterranean’s leading fresh fruit and vegetable producer, it has positioned itself as one of the top marketers of fresh produce, as well as the main citrus fruit company in Europe, and second in the world. It is one of the most internationalised Spanish companies, and it counts with its own sales network made up by seven subsidiaries located in the main European markets that commercialise product in more than 55 countries. Anecoop markets a wide variety of produce ranging from citrus fruit, fruit, vegetables and salad stuffs through to wine under its own brand names which are well-known the world over.
Biogold
The Biogold Group (BGI) of company’s specialises in the management of horticultural Intellectual Property,
The BGI “network” provides variety owners the opportunity to fast track the commercialisation through its international structure with representation in 22 countries.
The Group has the widest range of citrus, exotic and ornamental product under management in the world.
BGI has more than 15 years of experience in the development and implementation of sustainable global marketing plans for new varieties.
The Biogold offers citrus growers the varieties of the future.
Bayer
Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the fields of health care, agriculture and high-tech materials. Bayer CropScience, the subgroup of Bayer AG responsible for the agricultural business, is one of the world’s leading innovative crop science companies in the areas of seeds, crop protection and non-agricultural pest control. The company offers an outstanding range of products including high value seeds, innovative crop protection solutions based on chemical and biological modes of action as well as an extensive service backup for modern, sustainable agriculture. In the area of non-agricultural applications, Bayer CropScience has a broad portfolio of products and services to control pests from home and garden to forestry applications. The company has a global workforce of 21,000 and is represented in more than 120 countries.
Gold Sponsors
Viveros Citroplant S.L.
www.servicitrus.com/citroplant/empresa.asp
Viveros Citroplant, S.L. is a citrus nursery that produces healthy certified plants under the strict Certification Program in Spain. It propagates a large number of varieties originated from the healthy collection of the Germplasm Bank of the Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA). About 70% of the nursery plants are produced in greenhouses and screenhouses with a very innovative hydroponic system developed with research done at the nursery.
Montecitrus S.A.T.
Montecitrus S.A.T. Nº 9982. is a company focus on the production, packing and commercialization of a wide range of citrus varieties covering all the season. It owns close to 1,000 hectares of citrus plantings that are the base of the business. The main objectives of Montecitrus are to supply high quality fruits that fulfil consumer’s needs and expectancies. Production and packing are carried out strictly following all legal requirements with environmentally friendly practices. The company has developed irrigation and fertilization practices specifically adapted for arid environments.
Silver Sponsors
Agromillora
AGROMILLORA is an International technologically advanced nursery specialized in the production and marketing of plantlets and young trees of the highest quality. Business strategy consists in a large-scale production using modern technologies, mainly micropropagation, offering a wide range of plant species and cultivars: Prunus rootstocks (ROOTPAC®) and micrografted plants (MICROGRAFT®), olive trees (OLINT®), grape vines (distributor of VCR), citrus rootstocks, and other fruit species. Its establishment in several countries allows marketing its products worldwide (USA, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, Tunisia, Morocco, Uruguay, Turkey).
Yara
Yara is a growing international company with production, sales and services, research and support operations in the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. Our activities range from ammonia production to phosphate mining, from commoditytrade to research and development. Our portfolio ranges from single-nutrient fertilizers to complex compounds and micronutrients for all kinds of crops. Our local sales and marketing units provide customer services and agronomical support, working with farmers worldwide to optimize yields, reduce environmental impact and improve crop quality and nutritional value.
Fundecitrus
The “Fondo de Defensa de la Citricultura” (Fundecitrus) is a non-lucrative prívate organization which main aim is to contribute to public benefit of citriculture. Supported by citrus producers, the entity has been worldwide recognized as an example of efficiency in actions directed towards fighting against citrus diseases and reinforcing research. Its objective is to promote research in the health area that generates information and knowledge in order to transfer them to citrus producers so they can improve their orchards health in a sustainable way. Fondecitrus actions have contributed to ensure the competitiveness of Brazilian citriculture and its status as world number one.
Cambuhy
The Cambuhy Company is a large farm located in the North-central part of Sao Paulo state, Brazil, in the heart of citrus belt. This farm has about 14,000 hectares of citrus, rubber and other crops, with 6500 hectares of citrus in production and with about 4300 hectares of natural forest preserved. The property produces 6,5 million boxes of orange( 265.000 tons) for processing and for fresh. All the production receives international certificates of sustainability, the Rainforest Alliance certification since 2006. Most of the citrus area is drip irrigated with full automation of the operational system and on the control of the water application and ferti-irrigation. Infection of HLB in the area was very severe but Cambuhy has succeeded in developing with local and international researchers, a pack of action of control. Cambuhy has been world´s reference on management and control of HLB. There are more than 30 different trials, looking for improvement on the citrus production with local and international organization of researchers. Cambuhy is always open to exchange information with colleagues locally and abroad.
Louis Dreyfus Commodities
www.Ldcom.com www.Ldcom.com.br
Louis Dreyfus Commodities is a global leader in the agriculture industry with over 160 years of experience. Among other commodities, the company is one of the world’s largest citrus processors. In addition to orange juice, it produces apple, lemon, lime and grapefruit juices, as well as oils and essences. Supporting this significant business there are over 30 thousand hectares of citrus groves, seven processing plants, two port terminals and sales offices across the globe. Mindful of sustainability issues, the company adopts production practices to minimize impacts, while maintains a high level of production in their groves.
Sucocitrico Cutrale Ltda
The Cutrale Group is one of the largest producers and exporters of orange juice in the world. It is a Brazilian company, founded 45 years ago, that has approximately 15,000 employees involved in agriculture, manufacturing and administration. Its facilities include citrus groves, juice plants, port terminals and cold stores. Its mission is to be a worldwide consistent high quality source of orange juice, its products and services, adding value to the entire citrus chain and respecting the community and the environment.
Citrosuco
Contact: Tatiana Mendes
The new company is a joint venture between two Brazilian companies in the international market for orange juice, Citrosuco the Fischer Group Company and Citrovita, the Votorantim Group Company. The new company exports to more than 90 countries and has a capacity to process more than 40% of all orange juice produced and exported from Brazil. It holds an important position on the global market and is responsible for the production of 25% of all orange juice consumed worldwide.Both companies currently are active in all steps of the production chain: from growing oranges to the export of the juice around the world.
The numbers of the new company
Processing plants: 4 in Brazil (state of São Paulo) and 1 in USA (Florida).
Port Terminals 2 (Brazil) and 5 (USA, Belgium, Australia and Japan)
Number of Vessels: 5 own vessels and 1 charter
Number of Employees: 6,000, reaching 10,000 in the harvest season
Net Revenues: US$ 1.2 billion
Bronze Sponsors
NCP sarl
Contact: Benbiga@domaines.co.ma
Main missions of NCP sarl are :
Protection and development of new varieties
Control and combat counterfeit of protected vaireties
Technical advice and assistance of producers of varieties under licence
Training of research technicians for new variety breeding
Financial support of research activities aiming to develop new varieties of fruit species.
Fomesa
GRUPO FOMESA, is a group of companies specialist in postharvest machinery and products for fruits and vegetables and citrus fruit juice plants included subproducts recuperation and bioethanol plants. FOMESA begin its activity in 1955, and nowadays works in more than 50 countries worldwide. With four main companies placed in Valencia, Spain: FOOD MACHINERY ESPAÑOLA S.A., specialist in machinery for treatment, sorting, packing and handling of fruits and vegetables (electronic sizers, fompack, paletizers, etc.).
FOMESA FRUITECH & BROGDEX, specialist in postharvest products for fruits and vegetables (postharvest fungicides, disinfectans, waxes, smoke generators, green line products, non residual).
FOMESA AGROINDUSTRIAL, supplies complete citrus juice extraction plants, for both fresh and concentrated juice (juice extractors, Waste Heats; Tastes, Finishers, pasteurizers, tanks, etc). Besides forage plants, sub-product recuperation and bioethanol plants. FOMESA has also subsidiaries in Brazil, Greece, and Uruguay.
Varietal Base S.L
Contact: info@viverfisa.com / jordialcaplant@yahoo.es
Telf. 610225633 / 679362269
Varietal Base S.L. is a new citrus nursery that maintains a Foundation Block of mother trees propagated from healthy plants of the Protected Initial Block of plants of the Germplasm Bank of the Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias. Varietal Base is owned by five citrus nurseries (Alcaplant SL, Codoñol SL, Sancho Hnos,Germans Adell SL and Viverfisa Ornamental SL) and it’s main objectives are the release of healthy material to associated nurseries to establish Multiplication Blocks to produce buds for propagation of certified nursery plants and to become a reference for the Spanish citrus industry.
LGS Exports (SA) (Pty) Ltd
LGS Exports (SA) (Pty) Ltd is an intellectual property (IP) Management Company that manages the planting of a range of new citrus varieties in the USA, Spain, Portugal, Cyprus, Morocco, South Africa, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Brazil and Mexico, on behalf of the citrus breeders. Apart from managing the Nadorcott in Peru, LGS Exports will be launching the Mandalate, Valley Gold and Sonet easy peeler varieties commercially from March 2013 in a range of countries. We have been developing technology over the last 20 years that ensures that these varieties produce optimal crops of high quality fruit, which adds to the IP of these varieties. LGS Exports also manages these contracted varieties in the EU and USA markets, which entails the licensing of Importers in these markets, using of high quality branding and ensuring that attractive, high internal quality fruit ends up in the supermarkets, which drives consumption and profits of the citrus growers, exporters, importers and supermarkets. The success of a new variety lies in the successful marketing of the fruit and we have been active in citrus fruit exports and procurement for the last 9 years, mainly for the USA market.
Suterra Europe Biocontrol S.L.
Suterra is a leading company in the development and commercialization of bio-rational products for pest control. Suterra is dedicated to developing, manufacturing and marketing pheromone products as well as attractants for pest control. These innovative products, leaders in the industry, are not harmful for humans or animals, do not leave toxic residues and are respectful with the environment. Magnet Med is an (attract and kill = (A&K)) product for the control of the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata. It is an envelope shaped device that contains attractants for the Mediterranean fruit fly. The outside is impregnated with an insecticide. The adults of the Mediterranean fruit fly, specially the females, are hardly attracted by the device and after they get in contact with surface they die due to the insecticide. Using Magnet Med we are controlling the pest as we are attracting and killing the females, avoiding the oviposition and the fruit damage as well as the proliferation of the pest. Magnet Med can be used in whatever crop in where the control of the Mediterranean fruit fly is a necessity.
LIDA Plant Research
LIDA Plant Research is a Spanish company dedicated to research, innovation and commercialization of products that contribute to generate and transfer knowledge at the service of a modern, exigent and healthy citrus industry. Since our inception we remain faithful to our principles: the quality of our products, result of our experience and collaboration in joint research projects with universities that give us the scientific support for the elaboration of our agro-technological product lines, and the quality of our services thanks to our technician team who, in the fields, advise about the best use of our solutions. From the beginning our major goal has been to offer solutions which are both technologically advanced and of great agronomic efficiency and, therefore, we count with the compromise and will of a highly professional and skilled team specialized in citrus nutrition and advise that has been the basis of our product developing during the last 27 years.
Plant Print Diagnòstics S.L
PLANT PRINT DIAGNÒSTICS S.L. is a Spanish company specialized in direct detection and diagnostic kits for plant pathogens. Our kits are capable of analyzing large volumes of samples (plant samples or insects) in a simple and robust way. Our efforts are focused in the detection of aggressive pathogens that could cause economically important damages particularly on citrus (i.e.: Citrus tristeza virus, Citrus viroids, “Ca. Liberibacter” spp-HLB and Xanthomonas citri pv. citri). Additionally, the company offers diagnostic services and consultancy related to citrus nurseries and management of diseases.
ICCSA
Contact: Juan Carlos Claramonte jcclaramonte@gmail.com
ICCSA is a company of exporters and cooperatives, all of whom belong to the Professional Association of Fruit Exporters in the Province of Castellón, ASOCIEX. The objetive of ICCSA is to help member companies in the area of Investigation + Development.
One of the most important aspects in this work is the search for new products, in this case new varieties. As a result our objetive is to investigate, create and develop new varieties of citrus fruit, especially within the mandarin family.
In this search for new varieties we use cutting-edge technology and colaborate with investigation centres for the creation of new materials as well as in the search for new scientific advances which help to accelerate the improvement process.