AGRI SUD-OUEST INNOVATION
Agri Sud-Ouest Innovation is a French "pôle de compétitivité" dedicated to innovation in the agri-food sector in southwestern France. ASOI has a staff made of 20 people and gathers some 400 members, mostly SMEs and mid-caps, laboratories, research centres and institutions. The Strategic Research Agenda of ASOI relies on three main priorities: - Develop agro-refineries and enhance overall agricultural production, such as bioplastics, - Improve production system efficiency, for example in agricultural machinery or precision farming through digital solutions - Optimise eco-efficiency production inputs, for example with biocontrol products or biostimulants Agri Sud-Ouest Innovation spreads on the large perimeter of the south-west part of France (Regions Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Occitanie), where the diversity of farm productions is important, regarding both vegetal and animal productions.