An overview of the Chilean Research on Agroindustry

CONICYT-FAPESP Workshop Sao Paulo

Ricardo Díaz CárcamoIng. Agrónomo, M. Sc., M.A.

Executive Director

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Agriculture

Fruit & Vegetables

Processed

80.000 10.000 6.000 1.600

Chile Exports (USD millions)

Vegetable Oils

Canned

Juices

Frozen

Dehydrated 5%

6%

11%

31%

46%

Chile´s share of the world market

Chile´s world ranking

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2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Exports (USD Millions )

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Chile processed exports evolution and future?

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• Raw material quality and incentives.

• Exchange rate.

• Attractiveness for foreign investment.

Processing Industry main challenges

• Qualified labor/ competition from mining sector

• Value added products/New products /Traceability

• Cost of Energy/Processing efficiency

Processing Industry main challenges

Source: Global Energy Competitiveness Index 2012

• New markets/ new regulations

• Waste Management and valorization

• R&D Investment

Processing Industry main challenges

Main research topic for Chilean Agroindustry

FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY KEYWORDS

POLYPHENOLS MICROSTRUCTURE FRYING WINE PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS

IMAGE ANALYSIS OIL UPTAKE ANTIOXIDANT CAPACITY

VACUUM FRYING

https://dataciencia.conicyt.cl/

• Universidad de Antofagasta

• Universidad de la Serena

• Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso

• CREAS

• Universidad de Chile

• Universidad Tecnologica Metropolitana

• Universidad de Santiago

• Universidad del Bio Bio

• Universidad de Concepcion

• Universidad Austral

• Universidad de la Frontera

• CGNA

• Universidad de los Lagos

Food science schools and research centers

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Aysén

Magallanes

Los Lagos

Los Ríos

La Araucanía

Bío Bío

Maule

O'Higgins

Metropolitana

Valparaíso

Coquimbo

Atacama

Antofagasta

Tarapacá

Arica y Parinacota

Distribution of Chilean Ag industry production (export value MMUSD)

Maule´s Agroindustry

Regional competitiveness index

Source: UDD

Regional Research Center

CEAP is one of the 13 regional research centers created by CONICYT in association with Regional Governments.

All of them are focused on scientific and technological challenges related to a relevant regional production sector.

Main objectives: Enhance the decentralization of science and

technology development. Seduce new researchers to move into regions

(away from the metropolitan region). Generation of new knowledge on particular

field of regional interest

CEAP´s Strategic Objectives

• Generate new Agroindustry products at final consumer level.

• Optimize the Agroindustry processes in the main horticultural sectors of the Maule Region.

• Increase the environmental sustainability of the region´s Agroindustries.

• Create a national and international network that help the Centre become a national and international referent in R&D+i in horticultural processed food.

• Provide the Centre and the region with highly-specialized researchers, through the attraction and/or training of new researchers in horticultural processed food.

• Generate technology business, with high impact in the Maule Region, through development of technologies, products, processes and services, with application in the food industry.

Demands from Agroindustry

SIW &LIW, Carbon and Water Foot print, unconventional

renewable energies, Pesticide Residues

ICT´s, Mechanization/Automation, Energy Efficiency, Processing

Optimization

New Product development , Pilot Plant, Quality of Raw materials

New products trending topics in Chile

New product development research

• Characterization, health benefits, functional properties of different “native” species:

• Chenopodium quinoa Willd

• Rubus geoides Sm

• Ugni molinae turcz

• Tristerix tetrandus

• Prosopis chilensis Mol

• Red wine

• Olive oil

• Aristotelia chilensis

• …

• Processing technology to preserve health value of fruits and vegetable as well as bioavailability (vacuum frying, encapsulation, freeze-drying, infrared-radiation drying, etc.)

• Food development for special interest group (elderly, etc.)

Processing optimization reserach

• Optimization of harvest scheduling of wine grapes.

• Prediction models for fruit disease incidence in postharvest.

• Wide range of technology used in processing plants

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Chile

Australia

Canada

China

Netherlands

Portugal

Italy

Germany

Greece

United Kingdom

France

Brazil

Spain

United States

Papers by country

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Universidad Austral de Chile

Universidad de La Serena

University of Concepcion

Universidad Tecnica Federico SantaMaria

Universidad de la Frontera

Universidad de Talca

Universidad de Chile

Pontificia Universidad Catolicade Chile

EFICIENCIA + EFICACIA = PRODUCTIVIDAD IDÓNEA.

Input

Output Unreachable point

Efficient point

Inefficient point

Processing optimization research

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45

1 5,376 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12

2 10,7 2,238 4,411 0,107 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7

3 5,737 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7

4 14,555 23,965 26

5 2,32 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7

6 13,346 26 26 26 26 26

7 147,798 180

8 17,31

9 10,7 10,7 10,7 8,373 8,652 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7

10 3,621 26 26 26 26 26 26

11 7,24 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7

12 18,555 26

13 3,775 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7

14 6,125 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7

15 90,384

16 10,596 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 0,107 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7

17 9,375

18 7,374 8,493 8,493 0,12 8,303 0,12 0,12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12

19 5,425 10,7

20 2,628

21 0,107 0,107 3,728

22 3,942

23 6,19 10,7

24 5,446 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7

25 160,056

26 3,75 6

27 75,744

28 10,7

29 5,436 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7

30 4,008 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7

31 1,33 0,107 0,107 0,107 0,107 0,107 0,107 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7

32 5,224 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

33 123,885

34 9,038

35 5,216 10,7 10,7 10,7

36 9,75 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7

37 87,111

38 92,488

39 143,456

40 157,298

41 9,022 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7

42 4,188 10,7 10,7 10,7

43 4,5 10,7

44 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7

45 23,22

46 3,7 10,7

47 17,982

48 154,17

49 173,817

50 127,32

51 3,468 10,7 10,7 10,7

52 139,212

53 134,12

54 132,555

55 7,5 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7

56 0,06 5,945 6 6 6 6 6

57 22,556 26 26

58 24,825

59 1,65 10,7 10,7 10,7

60 4,54 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7

61 76,051 180

62 59,732 180

63 106,291

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45

1 26 0,26 0,26 2,856 26 26 26 26 26 26

2 0,107 6,649 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7

3 0,12 0,12 5,797 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12

4 2,057007 12 12 12 12 12

5 26 26 12,05495

6 26 26 26 26 26

7 147,798 180

8 17,31

9 6,325 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7

10 9,821 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7

11 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 2,021768

12 12 12 12 5,043238

13 25,812 19,3 0,26 17,5 5,103

14 0,660702 26 26

15 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 4,736634

16 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7

17 9,375

18 0,51493 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 0,107

19 10,7 4,748325

20 2,525456

21 3,230644

22 0,06 0,06 3,112421

23 3,173527 10,7

24 0,06 0,186 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

25 160,056

26 6,456919 0,766473 0,901983

27 1,8 73,944

28 2,2 8,618

29 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 9,887394 0,107

30 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 9,204734

31 53,3075

32 4,424 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7

33 122,6584

34 9,038

35 0,107 0,107 5,002 10,7 10,7 10,7

36 9,75 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7

37 87,111

38 92,488

39 143,456

40 157,298

41 3,822 12 12 12 12

42 4,188 10,7 10,7 10,7

43 13,89797

44 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 9,541497 4

45 10,7 10,21858

46 0,06 2,34 6 6

47 10,7 7,209901

48 145,2351

49 173,817

50 127,32

51 10,7 10,7 2,760803 0,107 10,7

52 1,8 137,412

53 134,12

54 132,555

55 0,26 0,26 14,58 26 26 26

56 10,7 10,7 10,7 1,452264

57 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 10,7 4,814713

58 10,7 10,7 1,842244

59 1,199877 6 6 6 6 6

60 26 26 22,13124

61 76,051 180

62 59,732 180

63 106,291

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Harvest Planning and managemente DDS

+70% require assistance in agroindustry wastemanagement.Little or no presence of laboratories for analysis ofagro-industrial waste in the region.Changes in environmental legislation.Extended responsibility to the producer

AGROINDUSTRY

WASTE STREAMS

BY-PRODUCTS &

ENERGYENVIRONMENT

Waste valorization research

Waste valorization research

• Characterization, health benefits, functional properties of different residues.

• Using residues and residues extracts as bio ingredient for bio pesticides

• Use of waste by products as a source of fiber for human and animal food

• Extraction of antioxidants from olive oil waste

100 MG= USD 1300

Bio refinery for waste valorization

Biofuel

High value Bio ingredients

Animal feed

micro algae

Fermentaciones

PyrolysisAgroindustry

Residues

Bio refinery

18.000 tons

Tomato pomace….

70% in Maule

Cardiovascular diseases

Fuentes E, Caballero J, Alarcón M, Valenzuela C, Palomo I. Mechanisms of Antiplatelet Action of Adenosine e

Inosine: Effect of structural change on the specificity of action. Working paper.

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Obrigado!