SIVAL and the future of production
SIVAL's DNA is structured around three major challenges, essential to ensuring the resilience and future of plant production:
- Economic performance: the profitability and competitiveness of farms are essential to their long-term survival and to the country's agricultural sovereignty. Innovation, production choices and diversification, yield optimization, skills management... SIVAL showcases solutions and fosters exchanges to create value for agricultural production businesses.
- Climate: challenges and solutions: SIVAL offers solutions for adapting crops to climate change and promoting sustainable practices.
- Development and promotion of Sectors: with the support of its partners, SIVAL offers solutions to enhance the attractiveness and development of the Sectors specialized plant sector, from upstream to downstream. Human resources, integration of social issues, attractiveness and transfer, SIVAL contributes to exchanges and advances on these major issues for the future of Sectors and farms.
These three pillars form the basis on which SIVAL builds its commitment to the future of Sectors plant production.
Thanks to its vast network, its offer and its programming, SIVAL is positioned as a place for exchange and reflection, where concrete solutions for the future of plant production are outlined. This makes the show a key event in helping professionals face current and future challenges.
Climate: issues and solutions
Supporting the agro-ecological transition
The transition to more sustainable agriculture and food is a necessity. In the face of climate change, our agricultural model must adapt and rediscover its fundamental principles: soil health, the water cycle, a virtuous approach to cropping itineraries, etc. SIVAL is committed to promoting solutions that enable producers to adapt to this transition, while ensuring their economic sustainability and reduce the drudgery of their jobs. As such, the show highlights the challenges and solutions available on the market, as well as upcoming innovations. Its aim is to help farmers, in a concrete and pragmatic way, to produce and feed sustainably.
SIVAL also promotes knowledge sharing through thematic conferences and workshops led by experts in Sectors and environmental sciences. In this way, it creates an environment conducive to learning, innovation and the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices.
Solutions for the future of water management
SIVAL highlights forward-looking solutions for water management in crop production, essential in the face of today's climatic challenges. Innovations on show include precision irrigation systems such as drip and micro-sprinkler irrigation, tensiometric and capacitative sensors, remote sensing and satellite imaging technologies, and other innovations enabling rational irrigation management. In addition, methods for treating and reusing agricultural wastewater, as well as collecting and storing rainwater, are being explored with the aim of improving water resilience. By showcasing these technical solutions, SIVAL helps growers adopt innovative and sustainable water management strategies, thus ensuring the viability of crop production andmitigating the impact of climatic hazards.
Building production resilience to climate change
SIVAL contributes to the resilience of plant production in the face of climate change by promoting the adoption of innovative agronomic practices. By showcasing varieties that are tolerant to abiotic stresses such as drought, extreme temperatures and salinity, SIVAL highlights innovative production techniques that maintain yield stability while preserving the environment. Integrated crop management (IPM) techniques and the use of biostimulants and biofertilizers are also present at SIVAL. These techniques take plant health and resistance to disease and pests into account. By disseminating these technological and practical advances, SIVAL enables producers to learn how to adapt to climatic challenges, and contributes, at its own level, to the sustainability of plant production systems.
Moving towards energy-saving production techniques
SIVAL showcases innovative technological solutions to improve the energy efficiency of production techniques: renewable energy systems such as photovoltaic solar panels and biogas installations, energy management technologies including real-time monitoring and control, optimization of energy consumption in greenhouses and other facilities.... The innovations presented at SIVAL offer growers solutions to reduce their carbon footprint and production costs, while maintaining their competitiveness.