 The ICIA is an autonomous organization, belonging to the Comunidad Autónoma de Canarias, assigned to the Consejería de Agricultura, Ganadería, Pesca y Alimentación. The organization was created by the Canarian Government law of 4/1995 with the aim of programming and executing activities related to research, development and transfer of agricultural technologies in the field of the Comunidad Autónoma de Canarias.
SIts origins go back to the experimental station dependent on the Ministerio de Agricultura. The station, together with the botanical garden known as Jardín de Aclimatación de La Orotava, acted as a base to create, in 1971, the CRIDA, depending from the Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agrarias (INIA). When it was transferred to the Comunidad Autónoma de Canarias in 1983, it changed its name to Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria (CITA), to which the Laboratorio Agrario Regional and the Centro de Selección y Mejora animal were added.
The headquarters are located in Valle Guerra (La Laguna – Tenerife), and there are other assigned agencies and research plots in Tenerife, La Palma, Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura. At present, the ICIA has a staff of fifty researchers and agricultural technicians, and about a hundred professionals encharged of research support and technical transfer.
Aims
- Development and execution of research projects tending to increase the competitiveness of the agricultural produce in the Canary Islands, especially in the fieds of tropical and subtropical crops, plant protection and animal produce.
- Support to these sectors, carried out by means of studies, analysis and reports about products and production means.
- Agrarian specialists training through national and international courses, organized in collaboration with educational and research institutions.
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