Inagro
Inagro

Overview

Inagro is a research and knowledge center, dedicated to susainable innovation in primary production. 

Geographically speaking, Inagro is located in the very intensive and innovation-driven agricultural and horticultural heart of the province of West-Flanders in Belgium. 

Within its own optimised professional research infrastructure, more than 220 specialized staff members develop new techniques and technologies, directly implementable in agrofood-industry. Inagro focuses on development of innovative production systems and agrofood chains, with implementation of smart farming technologies. Making agrofood production more climate resilient and integrated in the circular economy and development of solutions to reduce impact of agrofood production on the environment, are important scopes in our research. 

Inagro delivers services to industry and SME's in the field of co-creating, testing, validating and demonstrating new solutions and technologies. If desired by the client, we might use a living lab… The practice-driven nature of the research at Inagro requires the research projects to be implemented on an operational scale. 
Which is why Inagro has set up a small-scale yet professional operational infrastructure for various agricultural sectors at its site. 

The infrastructure is adapted to simultaneously test various objects in various repetitions on a certain scale size to ensure the test results are statistically underpinned. The available acreage at our sites is largely insufficient to perform all research. Which is why we also set up trial plots in-situ. To this end, Inagro runs a network of 80 trial plot holders which offers the added benefit that this enables us to conduct research on different types of soil. 

Greenhouse horticulture: 4,200 m² glass and 1,000 m² of plastic greenhouses + 8000 m² new infrastructure for high tech urban farming under developement (https://leden.inagro.be/agrotopia/)

Conventional produce in soil, hydroponics and vertical farming
Focus on lettuce, tomato…. Inagro delivers services to industry and SME's in the field of co-creating, testing, validating and demonstrating new solutions and technologies.

If desired by the client, we might use a living lab approach, involving end-users such as farmers and consumers through co-creation activities. 
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