Fruit Attraction 2025

Fruit Attraction 2025 is presented as an ambitious edition, a fair that has broken its own ceilings to become the world fruit and vegetable epicenter. From September 30 to October 2 at IFEMA Madrid, the event will occupy 10 pavilions with more than 78,000 m², hosting 2,460 exhibitors from 64 countries -a growth of 8.4 [...]

Jessica Iglesias Moya, winner of the VI "Eduardo Jesús Fernández Rodríguez" Award for Best Doctoral Thesis

The UAL-ANECOOP Experimental Farm Foundation would like to congratulate Jessica Iglesias Moya, winner of the VI "Eduardo Jesús Fernández Rodríguez" Award for the Best Doctoral Thesis, for her brilliant work entitled "Physiological and genomic study of the role of ethylene and ABA in germination and in the response to water stress in Cucurbita pepo". This award recognizes [...]

European Researchers' Night 2025

The University of Almeria, through the UCC+i and the Office for Transfer of Research Results (OTRI) of the Vice-Rectorate for Science Policy, organizes every year the European Night of Researchers in Almeria, in the courtyard of the Government Delegation of the Andalusian Government, Mirador de la Rambla and Rambla Federico García Lorca, [...]

Agri-voltaic greenhouses are born in Almeria: producing food and solar energy at the same time

The photovoltaic energy produced is used for the farm's self-supply, thus reducing electricity consumption and achieving greater efficiency in irrigation. When talking about intensive agriculture, the first thing that comes to mind is the large expanse of greenhouses that occupies a large part of the province of Valencia, Spain.

VII edition of the Foundation's annual awards

The UAL-Anecoop Experimental Farm Foundation launches the VII edition of its annual awards to recognize academic excellence in the field of Agricultural Engineering. These awards -for the Best Final Degree Project (TFG), Best Master's Thesis (TFM) and Best Doctoral Thesis- seek to promote applied research and reward the efforts of [...]

Visit from Southwest University of Chongqing

On July 18, 2025, representatives of the College of Resources and Environment of Southwest University, located in Beibei district, Chongqing (China), made an institutional visit to the Ual Anecoop Experimental Farm. During the visit, the team had the opportunity to see first-hand the facilities of the experimental farm [...]

Visit of international students from Mexico, Cuba and other countries as part of Study Abroad.

🌍 Horticulture without borders (or soil) 🌱💧 On July 7, 2025, we had the pleasure of welcoming a group of 16 international students from Mexico, Cuba and other countries to the UAL-Anecoop Foundation Experimental Farm as part of the Study Abroad program. During the visit, the group immersed themselves (literally) in [...]

Visit of the international BIP Erasmus+ course "Digital Transformation of Agrocompanies".

🌱 Digital transformation is also cultivated in the field 🌍 Last Friday, July 4, we received the visit of the international course BIP Erasmus+ "Digital Transformation of Agrocompanies" in our Experimental Farm of the UAL-Anecoop Foundation. A day full of knowledge, cultural exchange and technology applied to the agri-food sector. Students and teachers from different [...]

Collaboration with the GreenSys 2025 Congress

The UAL-Anecoop Experimental Farm Foundation participates as a collaborating entity and sponsor in the GreenSys 2025 International Congress, organized by the University of Almeria and supported by the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS). This important event will take place from June 16 to 20, 2025 and will bring together international experts in protected horticulture, technology and [...]