UNIGEN SEEDS SPAIN SLU

UNIGEN SEEDS SPAIN, heir to the former Akira Seeds (founded in 2007), is a company dedicated to the research, development and marketing of varieties of hybrid horticultural seeds, tested and adapted to different production areas.

It is part of the American company United Genetics Seeds Co., with headquarters in California and subsidiaries in Italy, Türkiye, India, Chili and Mexico besides Spain.

• ACTIVITY: horticultural hybrid seeds.
• LOCATION: Innovation Avenue 15, Pitágoras Building – Office 57 (04131) Almería.
• CONSTITUTION DATE: 2007.
• CATEGORY: small company.
• CONTACT: (+34) 936 304 853

• NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: 14.
• INCOME: <€2,500,000
• GENERAL DESCRIPTION: Production and marketing of hybrid horticultural seeds under the brands Akira Seeds and Unigen Seeds.
• BUSINESS LINES:
  • Plant selection and variety development.
  • Seed production.
  • Bet on R&D.
• INFRASTRUCTURE: The company has a wide portfolio of hybrid seeds that covers the main horticultural species, specializing in rootstocks, tomatoes, mini and hot peppers, and fourth range.
• DATA OF INTEREST: Unigen Seeds Spain is part of the Japanese group Kagome, a world leader in the production and marketing of tomatoes with 7,500 varieties of seeds for fresh and processed products. In its diversification strategy, the group also includes the international division of seeds and seedlings with research and marketing in more than 80 countries.

TECHNOLOGICAL SUPPLY/DEMAND:

• The philosophy of Kagome and, therefore, UG Spain, is to develop all types of innovative products that use the value of vegetables to achieve sustainable growth and help the population to have longer and healthier lives, promote agricultural development and regional revitalization and addressing global food shortages.

DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

• Creation, development and adaptation to different conditions of competitive genetic improvement programs in pepper. Own resources.
• Development of double haploids to obtain parental lines in sweet and hot peppers. In collaboration with the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV).
• Development of parental lines in pepper with resistance to Leveillula taurica to obtain commercial hybrids that present said resistance. Own resources.