Professionals of the plant world
Companies and subsidiaries
- 4,000 companies
- 25,000 jobs
Examples of companies in the field :
- Production: Ernest Turc, Océane, Vilmorin
- Equipment makers and suppliers: Bucher Vaslin, Faliénor
- Service providers: La graine Informatique, Atelog 2i
Horticulture
National leader for potted flowers, ground cover plants, nursery seedlings, bulbs, shrubs in containers.
Member companies:
- Ernest Turc, Gaignard Fleurs, MinierR, Barrault Horticulture, Delbard, Pépinière Détriché, Taugourdeau, Pierre Turc, Terrena, Fleuron d'Anjou, Vu d'Ici
Supported by trade associations, unions, and development bodies:
- BHR, ARFHO, AEHO, FNPHP, UHA, ASTREDHOR
Seeds
National leader for flower and vegetable seeds.
Member companies :
- Vilmorin, Syngenta, Enza Zaden, CPSC (Coopérative Des Producteurs De Semences De Chanvre), FRASEM, Limagrain Verneuil Holding, Syngenta, Clause Tezier, Terrena, Horti Loire Expansion, Gip Geves
Supported by trade associations, unions, and development bodies :
- FNPC, FESPFA, GNIS, SNES GEVES, UPSA, FNAMS (Fédération Nationale des Producteurs Multiplicateur de Semences)
Fruit
National leader for apple, blackcurrant growing and also high bush blue berry
Member companies:
- SNC Elaris, Pépinières Multibaies, Davodeau Ligonnière, Vergers d'Anjou
Supported by trade associations, unions, and development bodies:
- CEAFL (Loire Valley Fruits and Vegetables Growers Trade Union, FRPF (Regional fruits Growers Union)
Market gardening
National leader for young leeks, lamb's lettuce.
Member companies:
- Fleuron d'Anjou, Rosée des Champs, Océane, CPLD (Coopérative des producteurs légumiers de Doué)
Supported by trade associations, unions, and development bodies:
- ARELPAL, CEAFL (Loire Valley Fruits and Vegetables Growers Trade Union)
Viticulture
France's third biggest wine growing area.
Member companies:
- Alliance Loire, Ackermann, LVVD
Supported by trade associations, unions, and development bodies:
- FVA, INTERLOIRE
Medicinal and aromatic plants
National leader for medicinal plants.
Member companies:
- Noveal
Supported by trade associations, unions, and development bodies:
- ITEIPMAI
Mushrooms
World leader for button mushrooms.
Member companies:
- FRANCE CHAMPIGNON
Supported by trade associations, unions, and development bodies:
- CTC (Mushroom Technical Center)
Cider apples and tobacco
- AGRIAL
Trade associations, unions, and development bodies:
- APPCM (Cider Promotion Association)
Businesses indirectly involved in plant production
Companies:
- Angers Expo Congrès, Atelog 2i, JF Cesbron, Cinor, Crédit Agricole de l'Anjou et de la Maine, Faliénor, La Florentaise, CMF Serres Florentaises, Bücher Vaslin, La graine informatique, Nor-Feed Sud, IF Tech, Terrena, Container Centralen France
Supported by trade associations, unions, and development bodies:
- Chambre Syndicale des Améliorants Organiques et Supports de culture
Chambers of Trade and Commerce
4 Chambers currently participate in VEGEPOLYS:
- CCI d'Angers (Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie d'Angers), CCI de Saumur (Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Saumur), CRA (Chambre Régionale d'Agriculture), CDA (Chambre Départementale d'Agriculture)
Contact information for chambers of trade and commerce
Contact information for chambers of trade and commerce(private)
Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie (Chamber of Commerce and Industry)
Angers CCI is a resource centre and development agency which offers businesses a highly effective service provided by 140 employees and makes available human and material resources.
It attaches great importance to anticipation and innovation in order to maximise companies' performance.
Its strength lies in its local foundations, completely in phase with the current impetus shown by the area's community of towns.
Angers CCI is at the service of 11,000 trading, manufacturing, and service companies.
Chairman: Joël Blandin General Manager: Daniel Loiseau
La Chambre régionale d'agriculture des Pays de la Loire (Pays de la Loire regional Chamber of Agriculture)
A tool sized to match the needs of a major agricultural region
The Pays de la Loire region Chamber of Agriculture is an assembly of elected representatives and specialists from a broad range of disciplines serving the whole of the farming profession; it is both a representative structure and a development tool on the scale of the region.
Representating farming
Its regional scope gives it a good grasp of agricultural issues and enable it to give direction on both economic and land use issues. The regional Chamber of Agriculture positions itself at the interface between the world of farming and the local, national, and international bodies involved in agriculture – Regional Council, Government, European Union. It keeps a constant watch on agricultural policy and carries out any economic studies required to defend the interests of farmers and food processing businesses in the region.
Project creator and coordinator
The second mission of the regional Chamber of Agriculture is to compile projects, raise the necessary finances, and run these projects in collaboration with the trade and branch organisations to help farmers adapt: training, investment aid, research programmes, technical support.
Service provider
The regional Chamber's last remit is to directly intervene with food processing businesses in the region by carrying out economic forecast studies and helping export initiatives.
The Pays de la Loire region is a land with a great tradition of farming and has a first class reputation in many areas: livestock rearing, viticulture, orchardry, horticulture, etc. The regional Chamber of Agriculture is on a scale to match this, a multidisciplinary tool at the service of a whole profession.