ACTA
Country: France ACTA (Association de Coordination Technique Agricole) is a unique association in Europe coordinating and federating the 18 technical agricultural institutes in France, organized by animal and plant productions. The technical institutes represent the applied research level of the French agricultural research and development system. ACTA and the technical institutes were created and are still directed by the farmers themselves. The technical institutes are aimed to meet the farmers’ expectations in term of research to give them directly applicable results. Their activities aim to improve competitiveness of farms and adapt production systems to the society expectations, reply to the request on…
Country: France
ACTA (Association de Coordination Technique Agricole) is a unique association in Europe coordinating and federating the 18 technical agricultural institutes in France, organized by animal and plant productions. The technical institutes represent the applied research level of the French agricultural research and development system. ACTA and the technical institutes were created and are still directed by the farmers themselves. The technical institutes are aimed to meet the farmers’ expectations in term of research to give them directly applicable results. Their activities aim to improve competitiveness of farms and adapt production systems to the society expectations, reply to the request on processing products and quality approach from the producer to the consumer. Those institutes play major roles in scientific and technical watch, experimentation, knowledge assembly, dissemination and training, support to public policies in relation with INRAE, extension services and enterprises (cooperatives,…). ACTA represents technical agricultural institutes with professional authorities at the national and European levels.
ITEIPMAI, organization affiliated with ACTA is also involved in the project.