The initiative, which aims to incorporate more technology and innovation into the industry, will be open until July 13, and will have co-financing that can reach 60%.
With the participation of the executive vice president of the Corporation for the Promotion of Production (Corfo), José Miguel Benavente, and local authorities from the Los Lagos and Coquimbo regions, a new call was announced on Thursday May 4 to promote the sustainability and diversification of the Chilean aquaculture industry.
The aim is to contribute to the development, adaptation, scaling up and commercialization of three species: Japanese oyster (Pacific oyster), the golden ray (Genypterus blacodes) and the floating seaweed huiro (Macrocystis pyrifera).
"Through this technological programme (PTEC) we invite companies, trade associations and universities to develop, in a collaborative way, initiatives linked to the aquaculture world. These are long-term supports that include a technological development phase to produce these species at a feasible scale, in an industrial way, and a second commercial phase to make the product available and export it," detailed the vice-president of Corfo.
The initiative, which aims to incorporate more technology and innovation into the industry, will be open until July 13, and will have co-financing from Corfo that can reach 60% of the project, with a maximum of $3,000 million. It is also expected that within a maximum period of six years the project will manage to implement technological developments, performance demonstrations, transfer models and businesses at a pre-commercial or commercial level. link between companies in the sector, among others.
Decentralization
Other technological programs already implemented in the Coquimbo and Los Lagos regions have been successfully positioned around the exploration, installation and national and international commercialization of species, positively impacting local economies through public-private-academic collaboration.
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We are launching this important initiative from Los Lagos and Coquimbo for the regions as a sign of decentralisation set out by the Government. The focus of this call is to support productive diversification to generate greater opportunities and consolidate the suppliers who, in our region, will be able to serve not only salmon and mussel farming, but also other potential species that may have a "deployment so good and even superior," explained the regional director of Corfo Los Lagos, Gabriel Pérez.
Meanwhile, the regional ministerial secretary (seremi) for Economy, Development and Tourism of Los Lagos, Luis Cárdenas, stated that this PTEC is a step towards promoting the development of new technologies and for the challenges facing the sector.
"Not only the development of our territory, particularly in aquaculture, because we have to advance on how we diversify our productive matrix and a major part of this is precisely how we give impetus from the Government to these public policies that directly benefit this happening." To which he added: "We have to be the engine that pushes this aquaculture diversification to begin to take place now and" This is a very good step to continue advancing in that dynamic.
The launch of the activity also included the presence of the manager of Technological Capabilities at Corfo, Fernando Hentzschel, and the regional director of the Subsecretariat of Fisheries and Aquaculture (Subpesca), Daniel Segura. From Coquimbo participated the president of the National Fishing Society (Sonapesca), Osciel Velásquez, and the manager of the More Sea – Transforma Program, Guillermo Molina.
Those interested in submitting their proposals can apply through the website www.corfo.cl. While to resolve doubts, the email inbox is available programastecnologicos@corfo.cl
