Our technical installations

To contribute to agricultural research, the EU GCA is setting up devices on 3 technical installations:

• HeliaPhen, an installation in semi-controlled conditions developed by the LIPME and co-piloted by the UEGCA, which enables abiotic stresses to be tested on potted plants.
• AgroPhen, a field installation for fine phenotyping at low and high throughput that allows the implementation of analytical devices in microparticles for the evaluation of varieties and practices.
• PSC (Practices and Cropping Systems), a facility for experimentation on larger instrumented plots that allows to test successions of practices and crops, with multi-criteria (agronomic, environmental and economic) and longer-term evaluations.

The field installations are deployed on two contrasting cropping systems: a reasoned system and an Organic Agriculture (OA) system (conversion initiated at the beginning of 2021) serving research and, more broadly, the agricultural world. The aim of this dynamic is to evaluate new practices, in a context of agricultural change, in order to provide the best possible support and advice to the various stakeholders.