The German Bayer is determined to bet on the agricultural business that it acquired from Monsanto, after , completed a year ago now, for 54,000 million euros.
And Spain -and especially the greenhouse area of Almería- was a very important country for the American firm and its research in the field of genetic improvement of crops.
Now, once the full integration of Monsanto’s assets in our country into the Bayer subsidiary in Spain has been completed, investments have begun to arrive. This Thursday, the German multinational announced an investment of 5.5 million euros in innovation through the construction of a building for cell biology at its research center in San Nicolás (Almería), one of the four that Monsanto had in Spain.
The new space -over 3,800 square meters- will include multifunction R&D facilities, laboratories, culture rooms, climate-controlled chambers and new phytotrons, as well as a work area for research teams. “The commitment to our center in Almería shows Bayer’s commitment to innovation in agriculture,” says VK Kishore, director of Horticultural Trials and Genetic Improvement in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region of Bayer.
Six centers in Spain
After the purchase of Monsanto, , of which five are specialized in the area of agriculture, four of them in horticultural crops. Of these, three are located in Almería (El Ejido, San Nicolás and Níjar) and are focused on the genetic improvement of vegetables grown in greenhouses, such as tomatoes, peppers or cucumbers. The other center, in Murcia, also develops genetic improvement of outdoor crops, such as broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, tomato or melon, among others.
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