Lanxade research centre

• Agroecology and production systems

• Technical assistance to distribution professionals

• Environmental impact

• Mechanisation, automation and robotics

• Nutrition

• Product quality and measurement

• Input reduction

• Cultural practices, crop protection

• Technical support and advice
• Variety authentication
• GEP trials
• Sanitary control
• Pathogen detection
• Instrumental sphere to evaluate packing lines
• Graft distribution
• Experimentation on automated/robotised equipment
• Training
• Maintenance breeding

69 staff members, including 29 engineers

83 ha experimental farm, with:

• 5,000 m² of glasshouses and plastic greenhouses, of which a contained greenhouse, multi-span, insect-proof quarantine glasshouse, polytunnels
• Laboratories for plant nutrition, molecular biology and virology, phytopathological analyses of fruits and vegetables, microbiology, measurement and product quality
• Resource and documentation centre

• Experimental farm
• Management
• Virology and Molecular Biology Laboratory 
• Mechanisation, Automation, robotics 
• Maintenance breeding
• Plant Protection Systems
• Optimised Systems & Production Methods