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ES60-AGUACAVALUE/AVOCA

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

Description

Use of avocado by-products in animal nutrition, cosmeceuticals.

Sector

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

Needs/ Problem statement

Spain concentrates the 93% of the avocado production in Europe. Malaga and Granada (Andalusian provinces) have the 88% of the total production. In Spain, 2 thousand tons of avocado bone and skin are discarded annually. These by products have become an issue to the processing industries due to its negative environmental impact.

Objective

Create a circular economy system using by-products from the avocado industry to give them a commercial outlet in the agri-food, nutraceutical and cosmetical sectors.

Bioeconomy fields

Crop residues and perennial plantsnull

Designer crops for optimised biomass contentnull

Algae biomassnull

Waste or recycled materialx

Microbial assisted processingx

Biorefineries null

Feedstock

Wastes

Outcomes and final product

Feed for animals; cosmetics and nutraceuticals

Mobility

Static

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

Foresternull

Researchernull

Advisornull

NGOnull

Training organizationnull

Processor or retailernull

Consumerx

Public Authority + LAGnull

Othernull

Economic sustainability

1
2
3

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

Social sustainability

1
2
3

1 - Low potential - doesn\'t bring any social benefits.

Environmental sustainability

1
2
3

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

Added value

Very low
Low
Intermediate
High
Very high

Food/Feed = High

Equipment maintenance costs (€/year)

null

Investment cost (€)

null

Operational costs (€)

null

Return of investment (€)

null

Return of investment (Year)

null

Coherence with BBioNets

1
2
3

3-green

Country

ES

Official website

http://www.aguacavalue.com/

OG Region

ES61Andalucía

Geographic Scope

Regional

Focus Area

FA 3A: Improving competitiveness of primary producers by better integrating them into the agri-food chain

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)

20

Number of partners by type

Farmer:

2

Forester:

null

Advisor:

null

Researcher:

2

NGO:

null

Processor or retailer:

2

Training orgaznization:

null

Consumer:

null

Public Authority:

null

Other:

null

Status

Completed

TRL

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

TRL 3 – experimental proof of concept

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