New meeting of the GOCITRUS project

Due to the coronavirus health crisis and the declaration of the State of Alarm by Royal Decree 463/2020, of March 14, the normal functioning of the GOCITRUS Operational Group has been altered. To minimize the consequences of this situation, the project members have held extraordinary meetings and adopted different measures to maintain the development of GOCITRUS activities and ensure the continuity of the innovative project.

In this context, BIOVEGEN participated yesterday in a new GOCITRUS meeting that was held in virtual format and was aimed at preparing a document requesting modifications that would allow the development of the project to be adapted to the current situation.

He GOCITRUS Operational Group was born in 2018 in the context of the Call for the Creation of Supra-autonomous Operational Groups in relation to the European Association for Innovation in agricultural productivity and sustainability. In its first phase (corresponding to measure 16.1 of the Call) the project had as its objective the formation of a group of experts to work on the identification and appropriate selection of
citrus varieties as a basis for correct varietal and production management and planning. Currently, the GOCITRUS Operational Group faces its second phase (corresponding to measure 16.2 of the Call) whose objective is to re-organize and define the varietal bases on which to establish the citrus revolution towards which our productive and export sectors are heading due to the imperatives and demands of the new relationships. between markets.

He GOCITRUS Operational Group It has the participation of 8 Spanish entities and its scope of action directly involves 8 Spanish provinces.