Four companies from Extremadura will receive a total subsidy of 5.1 million euros within the Strategic Plan for Recovery and Economic Transformation (PERTE) Agro-food II. These beneficiary companies are part of the provisional approval of 40 new projects announced by the Ministry of Industry and Tourism, worth 21.3 million euros in grants, with actions in 13 autonomous communities.
Among the awarding companies, the selection of El Encinar de Humienta in Almaraz was already announced, with a grant of 2.9 million euros for a project of Installation of biodigesters for the management of waste from the slaughterhouse and biogas production promoting a circular bioeconomy model. In addition, this PERTE Agro II includes Tomcoex, from Miajadas; Natac Biotech, from Hervás; and Aceitunera del Norte de Cáceres, in Montehermoso.
Tomcoex will receive a grant of 216,000 euros to implement New Integral Systems for Increasing the Efficiency of Plant Transformation Processing. The aid to Natac Biotech will be 1.4 million euros for a comprehensive system for the recovery and purification of residual solvents, while Aceitunera del Norte will receive 666,000 euros for the acquisition of new effluent evaporation equipment for the reuse and purification of water from the production of table olives. The total investment of the bankable budget of these four projects exceeds 10.1 million euros.
The objective of this PERTE, whose second call is endowed with 100 million euros, is to strengthen the competitiveness and resilience of the agri-food sector in Spain, favoring quality employment and the territorial roots of companies. The Ministry of Industry and Tourism continues to evaluate projects submitted for this second call until the remaining 77 million euros are exhausted. The first call for applications from PERTE Agro awarded 182 million euros to 286 primary projects of 224 companies.