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ES59-AGUACAVALUE/BYPRO

Valorization of Avocado by-products in Animal Nutrition, Nutraceuticals and Cosmeceuticals.

Description

Use of avocado by-products in animal nutrition

Sector

A1.6Support activities to agriculture and post-harvest crop activities

Needs/ Problem statement

Promotes possible alternatives for the valorisation of avocado by-products by studying the characterisation of their nutritional profile, content of bioactive compounds, antioxidant potential and digestibility, obtaining products with high nutritional value and high digestibility,

Objective

Formulation of animal feed products from avocado by-products.

Bioeconomy fields

Crop residues and perennial plantsx

Designer crops for optimised biomass content 

Algae biomass 

Waste or recycled materialx

Microbial assisted processing 

Biorefineries  

Feedstock

Biomass residues

Outcomes and final product

food, feed and biomaterials

Mobility

Mobile

Value chains

1
2
3

3 - High potential - Significant arisings of feedstocks available currently.

C Sink

1
2
3

1 - Low potential - low potential for carbon sequestration

Intended user

Agroindustries and biotecnology industries related to the avocado value chain.

Complexity of the process

1
2
3

2 -easy to use /replicate

Final user

Farmerx

Forester 

Researcher 

Advisor 

NGO 

Training organization 

Processor or retailer 

Consumer 

Public Authority + LAG 

Other 

Economic sustainability

1
2
3

2 - Medium potential - Expected to bring 2 or 1 economic benefits.

Social sustainability

1
2
3

2 - Medium potential -Expected to bring 2 or 1 social benefits.

Environmental sustainability

1
2
3

3 - High potential - Expected to bring at least 3 significant environmental benefits.

Added value

Very low
Low
Intermediate
High
Very high

Food/Feed = High

Equipment maintenance costs (€/year)

 

Investment cost (€)

 

Operational costs (€)

 

Return of investment (€)

 

Return of investment (Year)

 

Coherence with BBioNets

1
2
3

3-green

Country

ES

Official website

http://www.aguacavalue.com/

OG Region

ES61Andalucía

Geographic Scope

National

Focus Area

FA 1B: Strengthening the links between agriculture, food production and forestry and research and innovation

Key words

Circular economy, incl. waste, by-products and residues

Main source of funding

Rural development 2014-2020 for Operational Groups (in the sense of Art 56 of Reg.1305/2013)

Period

2018-2020

Duration (months)

24

Number of partners by type

Farmer:

1

Forester:

 

Advisor:

 

Researcher:

1

NGO:

 

Processor or retailer:

4

Training orgaznization:

 

Consumer:

 

Public Authority:

 

Other:

 

Status

Completed

TRL

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

TRL 3 – experimental proof of concept

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