Agri-food sector

The agri-food sector has enjoyed massive growth in the Somme thanks to abundant, high-quality raw materials from farming.

The entire agri-food sector in Picardy provides almost 6,500 jobs, equivalent to 13% of the overall number of jobs in industry.

Introductory, sandwich and continuous professional development training courses in various fields.

Higher education colleges and universities.

http://www.leparacletamiens.fr/

http://leap-saintecolette.fr/

•    Université de Picardie Jules Verne
www.u-picardie.fr

•    Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais
www.lasalle-beauvais.fr

•    Université Technologique de Compiègne
www.utc.fr

Innovation

•    2 technical centres located within Amiens assist companies with their development and innovation projects, and provide solutions to their technical requirements.
o    CTCPA (Technology centre for the preservation of agricultural produce)
www.ctcpa.org
o    CVG (Carbohydrate development centre)
www.cvgpn.com

•    A technology platform provides facilities, services and skills for use by manufacturers and entrepreneurs to create food ingredients, produce them in small batch runs and analyze them throughout the manufacturing process.

Dedicated service and support

"Village agro" is a service and support complex specifically developed to help new companies establish themselves in the sector.
A turnkey real-estate solution offering a building complex designed to food-processing standards, available in 2011.

Exclusive point of contact within the industry
Agro-Sphères is the Picardy agri-food business association of companies, technical and training centres, local authorities and economic institutions.

http://www.agrospheres.eu/agroalimentaire-picardie.hml