Report published in ABC Economía on 21/07/2025, under the title: “The countryside tackles water stress with an innovative and rich harvest“ In it, the following experts share their views: José Luis Bustos, director of BrioAgro; Manuel Hernández, manager of Maher Electrónica; José Ugarrio, technician at Asaja; and Francisco Sánchez Millán, industrial engineer from UPCT and…
DetailsOn the occasion of the report ‘The countryside tackles water stress with an innovative and rich harvest‘, published on 21/07/2025 in the Economy section of the Spanish newspaper ABC, We answered the following questions from journalists, which we share here: How did the AQUA system originate? The AQUA system emerged as an evolution of the…
DetailsAn experiment with chickpea seeds shows that plants can grow on the Moon despite the challenges. This finding suggests the possibility of extraterrestrial crops that would support long-duration space missions. A recent scientific study has investigated how seeds would develop on the surface of the Moon. The result has been a resounding success, as the…
DetailsIn order to analyze modern olive growing, we must start in 1980, where the traditional olive grove covered 7.5 million hectares in 23 countries, mainly between parallels 35° and 45° north latitude. Today, olive growing has evolved with intensive and high-density olive groves, representing 22% and 6%, respectively, of the 2.5 million hectares of olive…
DetailsIt allows farmers to fulfill the obligation to maintain the Digital Field Notebook by sending photos of invoices and audio messages via WhatsApp. It will also alleviate the problem of lack of margins due to excessive middlemen by offering factory product offers and purchase of production from big brands. Farmers from all over Spain are…
DetailsNew York University’s Tandon team has achieved a 20 per cent increase in the system’s salt removal rate while reducing its energy demand by optimising fluid flow rates. These results are shown in a paper published in Cell Reports Physical Science , the NYU Tandon team led by Dr André Taylor , professor of chemical…
DetailsWithin the Gen4Olives project, in which the Italian company Agricolus and the Spanish company BrioAgro work together, to better understand the evolution in recent months and the change that the month of December has brought, we show three graphs: 1) rainfall, 2) leaf wetting, but the most significant is 3) soil moisture. This graph reflects…
DetailsEvery month, we analyze the evolution of the dryland farms of the GEN4OLIVES project, located in Estepa. In addition to evaluating with technical criteria how the crop evolves and the indicators that we monitor, we have observed that the abundant rains of the second half of October have provided greater humidity to the soil, as…
DetailsSigning of the collaboration agreement in the framework of the Emphasis initiative (Euro-Mediterranean Network Facilitating Market Uptake of Innovations from SME), managed in Spain by the CTA (https://www.corporaciontecnologica.com/es/).. The Spanish startup BrioAgro Tech was represented by its CEO, José Luis Bustos, while the Jordanian startup Smart Green (https://sg-agritech.com/) was represented by its CEO Mohammad…
DetailsLed by the Centro de Ciencia y Tecnología de Antioquia – CTA, BrioAgro has installed crop monitoring and smart irrigation devices in the banana zone of northern Colombia through two ASBAMA farms, the Association of Colombian Banana Growers of the departments of Magdalena and La Guajira. The newspaper “Opinion Caribe” has echoed the ASBAMA news,…
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