The Government delegate in Galicia, Pedro Blanco, highlighted the more than 54 million euros that the Government dedicates to the four projects selected in the provisional resolution of the Agri-food PERTE with presence of Galician companies. He did so during a visit to the facilities in Pontevedra of the biotechnology group Hifas da Terra, one of the beneficiary firms.
The delegate had the opportunity to get to know first-hand the AccelerEAT project, in which Hifas da Terra participates together with 17 other companies, including the Galician Innolact, and which aims to obtain new foods or ingredients based on alternative raw materials such as mushrooms, in which the group based in Pontevedra is specialized, obtained and transformed through more sustainable and innovative industrial production processes. The project has a grant of 18.8 million euros from the Government (17.6 million in the form of a grant and 1.2 million in an interest-free loan) that will allow a total investment of 48 million euros to be mobilized until June 2025.
“This is another example of the Government’s Recovery Plan funds reaching Galician companies and doing so to transform our economy into a more digital and sustainable model,” said Pedro Blanco, who stressed that the company, created by Catalina Fernández and Esteban Sinde as a spin off of the University of Santiago de Compostela and awarded in 2016 by the Government with the Food of Spain award in the category of organic production, receives from PERTE Agroalimentaria about a million euros to continue innovating in the search for new foods and ingredients.
In this regard, the delegate highlighted the Government’s commitment to innovative solutions that improve people’s lives. “We are talking about a historical investment by the Government, with about 3 billion euros of the Recovery Plan that have already reached more than 25,000 signatures in our community, more than 7,000 in the province of Pontevedra, which shows that the Government of Pedro Sánchez is the best ally of Galician companies,” he said.
Four projects involving Galicia
Pedro Blanco reported that the Agri-Food PERTE mobilizes about 2 billion euros in aid through its different calls that are managed by the ministries of Industry, Agriculture and Science. The first of these calls was managed by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism and 4 projects involving companies from Galicia were selected.
Thus, in addition to AccelerEAT, there is the SMARTZ4MILK project, led by the Lence group, which seeks to improve the traceability of milk and of which 8 companies are part; Graperte, promoted by the Spanish Wine Federation with 19 companies, among them three Galician wineries (Martín Códax, Terras Gauda and Viña Costeira), and the FG2H-From Green to Healthy project, in which the Galician CEAMSA and Rotogal of a total of 25 companies participate.
“Galician companies know that they can count on the Government and the funds of the Recovery Plan, expanded by Brussels, which shows that we are doing things and in that line we will continue, on the side of companies,” said the delegate, who encouraged not to miss the historic opportunity that the funds of the Government Recovery Plan represent for the transformation and modernization of the Galician productive model.