Cajamar Innova

About Cajamar Innova

Plataforma Tierra is Cajamar Group’s digital agroalimentaria community and knowledge platform, created to support the digitalization and sustainability of the agricultural and food sector. It brings together producers, companies, technicians, entrepreneurs, developers, and other professionals across the value chain in a shared space for information, learning, and collaboration.

The platform positions itself as a meeting point for the agro-food sector, combining market information, innovation content, training, events, publications, and practical digital tools. Its stated goal is to help the sector become more competitive, efficient, profitable, and sustainable by sharing knowledge and developing new technologies and applications together.

Core Values

• Knowledge sharing: The platform emphasizes open exchange of information, experience, and practical know-how across the agro-food value chain. It presents shared learning as the basis for sector progress.
• Innovation: A central theme is the development and transfer of new technologies and applications, with a focus on applied innovation that can be tested and adopted in real-world conditions.
• Sustainability: The platform repeatedly links digitalization and innovation with more sustainable production, resource efficiency, and long-term sector resilience.
• Collaboration: It promotes cooperation among producers, companies, universities, technology centers, and startups to build solutions together and strengthen the ecosystem.
• Professional development: Training and continuous updating are positioned as essential to forming a new generation of producers, technicians, and managers.

Unique Aspects

• Backed by Grupo Cajamar: Plataforma Tierra is an initiative of Grupo Cooperativo Cajamar, giving it institutional support and direct connection to a broader agro-food innovation ecosystem.
• Integrated innovation ecosystem: The platform is linked to Cajamar’s experimental centers, including the Estación Experimental Cajamar in Almería and the Centro de Experiencias Cajamar in Valencia, which support applied research and technology transfer.
• Large active community: The site states that the community has more than 15,000 members, reflecting a broad professional network across the sector.
• Strong applied-research footprint: Cajamar’s experimental centers are described as working with dozens of companies, universities, and technology centers on applied projects, and as covering more than 20 hectares of R&D+i space in Valencia and Almería.
• Startup acceleration capability: Through Cajamar Innova, the ecosystem offers acceleration programs for water, agrotech, and foodtech projects, with support for testing technologies in real conditions and access to mentors and contacts.