ARVALIS – Vegetable Institute
For technological agriculture, efficient and sustainable resolutely
Improve farm competitiveness, create opportunities, improve the profitability of production and chains and satisfy consumers and citizens are the objectives ARVALIS Institute plant.
The expertise to farmers and industries
A network of engineers and experts present on the national territory
ARVALIS Institute plant, applied research organization, product technical and economic references and directly applicable in the agricultural production systems.
Research stations, experimental sites, farms application, laboratories, the Institute has 35 sites located throughout the national territory.
The teams are piloting studies at different levels of scale:
- the plant: varietal characterization, development of biotechnologies
- the plot: technical route; protection; nutrition; implantation techniques, crop protection products or applications.
- exploitation and watershed: risk management point and diffuse pollution, organic status and soil fertility, biodiversity management, greenhouse gases greenhouse effects and conducted rotations, operating economics and competitiveness.

The Institute’s jurisdiction covers production techniques, harvesting, storage and preservation as well as the qualitative aspects of productions for all opportunities.

The institute offers training and disseminates information through a strong presence in the press or on its own information channels: Agricultural Outlook, ARVALIS CETIOM information, ARVALIS.fr, information meetings and symposia, pamphlets. It also offers farmers and technicians operational tools, often computerized, for the conduct of crops.