ProAgria Oulu

ProAgria Oulu is a Finnish expert organization offering a wide range of advisory services for the Oulu Region’s farms and rural enterprises.

Our staff, around 80 experts, work across the region and are available at our 15 offices. Rural Women’s Advisory Organisation of Oulu (Oulun Maa- ja kotitalousnaiset) and Oulu Fishery Centre (Oulun Kalatalouskeskus) also operate within the organization.

ProAgria’s mission

Our purpose is to improve business competitiveness and profitability of our customers and partners, and to promote sustainable development and well-being. All this we can achieve together!

Get to know us:

Services

: Milk recording
Herd and Feed Management
Heifer Services
Udder Health and Fertility Services
Grassland Management
: Crop production plans
Animal farm feeding and production plan
Crop production Specialist Advisors
Environmental services
: Economy management, investment and organic services
Energy solutions and efficient energy usage
Bioeconomy is a new new service that includes services for energy production and usage, building, design and construction.
: Business development and business plans
Business arrangements when starting up
Change-of-Ownership
Education and training services
Accounting Services
Special know-how for rural industries (Foodstuff production, Tourism and Food service, Horses, Machinery contracting, Energy and Greencare businesses)

Projects and cooperation

ProAgria Oulu takes actively part in the development of North Ostrobotnian agriculture and rural enterprises through various projects and with the help of our wide co-operation network.

Primal funding for our projects comes from European Agricultural Fund for rural Development. We also exploit other sources for funding, such as European Regional Development Fund, Interreg program and the Horizon Europe program.

Read about our project activities and cooperation.

At the moment we manage projects on these themes:

: Entrepreneurship is one of our key sectors. Our projects vary from first-hand guidance to specific businessgroup projects and small group activities.
responsible leadership of farms and rural enterprises
helping forward sustainable business thinking
: One important theme has been improving the state of our water. With the recent projects we have encouraged local people and water users to co-operate with each other in matters concerning water restoration and catchment management. Besides water issues we aim to sustain our traditional landscape in rural areas.
possibilities of bioeconomy to rural enterprises
networks of people working in water restoration
production of organic plants and efficiency and profitability of the production
maintaining and saving valuable rural landscapes
eradication of invasive species
organic farming
: In our food related projects, we aim to help forward our local food culture, networking between the entrepreneurs and bring knowledge on sustainable food chain. Our nationwide projects include such themes as minimizing food waste, nutrition and food education for children.
local food culture and networks of producers
sustainable and responsible food chain

Contact us

We are looking for new international project partners, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Kauppurienkatu 23, 3. floor
90100 Oulu
info.oulu@proagria.fi

Marja Malmi

Project Manager

ProAgria Oulu