VEGEPOLYS VALLEY

VEGEPOLYS VALLEY, a world-class plant-focused competitiveness cluster, is established across four regions: Brittany, Pays de la Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. It currently has 675 members. Since 2005, more than 1,300 projects, valued at 4 billion euros, have been supported. The cluster’s backing has enabled 627 of these projects, worth 1.4 billion euros, to receive 640 million euros in public funding.

The cluster fosters and supports the co-design of innovations aimed at competitive, high-quality plant production that is environmentally friendly and safeguards the health of both consumers and producers. It also encourages the development of both food and non-food uses of plants, enhancing quality, convenience, services, and naturalness.
Thus, the cluster supports innovation across the entire value chain, from upstream to downstream.

Innovation is primarily structured around 7 strategic focus areas:

• 3 areas dedicated to competitive and high-quality plant production that respects the environment and the health of consumers and producers:

  • Varietal innovation and performance of seeds and seedlings

  • Plant health

  • New technologies and practices for production systems

• 4 areas focused on the development of food and non-food uses of plants, enhancing quality, convenience, services, and naturalness:

  • Plants for human and animal nutrition

  • Nutrition, preventive health, wellness, cosmetics

  • Agromaterials and biotransformation

  • Urban greenery