The Office C acts as a bridge between the scientific community and policymakers. Its role is to listen to experts, analyse studies on relevant issues—such as climate, water, or pests—and convey this information to Members of Parliament through clear and accessible summaries. The aim is for lawmaking to take scientific evidence into account, not just…
BrioAgro increases production by adapting to climate change. Irrigation efficiency during periods of water scarcity: 2023–2025 results and the value of real-time adaptation, where BrioAgro outperforms FAO and technical criteria in peppers, watermelons, and eggplants: a comprehensive and climate-contextualized analysis.
On November 10, Plataforma Tierra published the article “Sensorization and smart irrigation by BrioAgro to improve water use efficiency in an eggplant crop”, which highlights the excellent results achieved by BrioAgro. In this comparison, BrioAgro obtained 27% more production than following FAO recommendations and 9% more than irrigation managed by technicians using agronomic criteria. In…
On 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…
In 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…
It 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…
Within 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…
Every 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…
Signing 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…
Led 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,…