FDGDON

What FDGDON does

FDGDON 66 (legal entity: LA FDGDON66, SIREN 418740361) is a French non-profit association constituted under the loi 1884, operating as the departmental section of FREDON Occitanie and functioning as an approved Organisme à Vocation Sanitaire (OVS). Its mandate is codified in the French Rural Code (Book 2, Title 5, Chapter 2, articles L. 252-1 to L. 252-5), which grants it statutory responsibility for plant health protection across the entire Pyrénées-Orientales department. The organization delivers two complementary streams of work: (i) field operations — prospection of orchards and vineyards, inspection of nursery environments, confirmation of farmer-flagged trees or vines, and sanitation control for regulated pests and pathogens — and (ii) administrative operations — parcel-level cartography with localization of contaminated trees (notably for Sharka and ECA), digital data entry, sanitation control recordkeeping, and reporting to FREDON Occitanie and the regional DRAAF-SRAL. Its core disease programs cover Sharka (Plum Pox Virus) on prunus, Enroulement Chlorotique de l'Abricotier (ECA) on apricots and peaches, and Flavescence Dorée on vineyards; it also operates a public-health mandate as departmental referent for ambrosia (ragweed) control under ARS Occitanie and provides pine processionary caterpillar management for municipalities and private individuals.

The organization's customer base spans arboricultors and viticultors in the Roussillon, government and regional agencies (DRAAF-SRAL, DDTM, ARS, DREAL), municipalities, and private individuals. Its revenue model is anchored on annual professional contributions (cotisations) from growers — for example, the 2020 flavescence dorée prospection fee was set at 1.50 euros per hectare, down from 2 euros in 2019 — supplemented by public service mandates for sanitary surveillance and a newer transactional diagnostic service launched under the September 2020 SAFER MINGO convention for agricultural land transactions. The technology stack is conventional and field-centric: manual prospection, lab confirmation of samples, GIS-based parcel cartography, and digital reporting — with a research collaboration via the UPVD Fondation chair (2019) exploring pre-symptomatic Sharka detection as the principal avenue for any future diagnostic automation. Permanent staff are five (a director, secretary, two technical coordinators, and an inspector); governance is provided by a 20-plus-member Board of Directors led by President Gérard Majoral, with Sandrine Chiron serving as Directrice since June 16, 2020 following the death of founding director Evelyne Mingo.

From a go-to-market perspective, FDGDON 66 is structurally a community-led, legally mandated federation rather than a discretionary commercial provider; adoption of its services by growers within mandatory control zones is compulsory, and its public-service role is effectively a monopoly within the department. Its principal strategic growth vectors are the SAFER MINGO land-transaction diagnostic service (launched 2020), the public-health ambrosia and processionary caterpillar programs, and the UPVD research partnership, all of which extend the organization's regulated mandate without altering its core non-profit association structure.

Name

FDGDON

Legal name

LA FDGDON66

Website

https://fdgdon66.fr

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

FDGDON 66 is a French non-profit association and approved Organisme à Vocation Sanitaire that conducts mandatory plant health surveillance, pest diagnostics, and sanitation control across the Pyrénées-Orientales department for arboricultors, viticultors, public agencies, and municipalities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Agricultural Plant Health Services

NAICS

Exterminating and Pest Control Services (561710)

SIC

Agricultural Services (700), Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731), Services-Testing Laboratories (8734)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYAFACAGAF

Insect Control (Crawling/Flying Insects) for Farms & Ag Facilities

Agriculture & Food Production/Agricultural Services (Custom Farming, Agronomy, Veterinary)/Pest Management Services (IPM, Fumigation, Rodent/Bird Control)

SECONDARYAFACAGAK

Pest Risk Assessments, Audits & Compliance Documentation

Agriculture & Food Production/Agricultural Services (Custom Farming, Agronomy, Veterinary)/Pest Management Services (IPM, Fumigation, Rodent/Bird Control)

SECONDARYAFACAGAH

Wildlife Control (Nuisance Animals) for Agricultural Operations

Agriculture & Food Production/Agricultural Services (Custom Farming, Agronomy, Veterinary)/Pest Management Services (IPM, Fumigation, Rodent/Bird Control)

Keywords

• Plant health surveillance
• Phytosanitary services
• Agricultural pest control
• Crop disease management
• Field inspection services

Headquarters

HQ city

Toulouges

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Professional contributions (cotisations): Arboricultors and viticultors provide financial participation for mandatory control programs
2. Public service mandates: Services provided to public services (DRAAF, DREAL, ARS) for sanitary danger prevention, surveillance and control

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

FDGDON 66 is a departmental federation that delivers plant health surveillance, pest and disease monitoring, and sanitary diagnostics for the Pyrénées-Orientales department of France. It organizes mandatory collective control programs against regulated crop diseases (Sharka, Flavescence Dorée, Enroulement Chlorotique de l'Abricotier) and provides public health pest control (ambrosia, processionary caterpillar). Services combine field operations (prospection, diagnosis, sanitation control) with administrative support (cartography, data entry, regulatory reporting).

Product overview

FDGDON 66 operates as a unified service organization providing integrated plant health protection and agricultural pest management. The core offerings include surveillance and monitoring services for regulated diseases (Sharka, Flavescence Dorée, Enroulement Chlorotique de l'Abricotier), agricultural land sanitary diagnostics, public health services targeting ambrosia and processionary caterpillars, and administrative support including cartography and regulatory reporting. These services are delivered through field operations and administrative processing, serving farmers, municipalities, government agencies (DRAAF, DREAL, ARS), and private landowners in the Pyrénées-Orientales department.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Plant Health Surveillance and Monitoring Services
• Sharka Disease Management
• Flavescence Dorée Management
• Enroulement Chlorotique de l'Abricotier (ECA) Management
• Agricultural Land Sanitary Diagnostics Sanitary diagnostics for agricultural land conducted under the SAFER/FDGDON MINGO convention signed September 25, 2020, providing plant expertise and epidemiological surveillance for properties sold or exchanged, testing for quarantine diseases including Sharka, ECA, and Flavescence Dorée.
• Public Health Services - Ambrosia Control
• Pine Processionary Caterpillar Control
• Administrative Services and Cartography

Named customers4 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered major, core and moderate.

• SAFERmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 September 2020Convention MINGO signed September 25, 2020 between SAFER and FDGDON 66 presidents. Establishes plant health diagnostic (equivalent to lead or termite diagnostics for real estate) providing plant expertise and epidemiological surveillance on all properties sold by SAFER.
• FREDON OccitaniecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFDGDON 66 is the departmental section of FREDON Occitanie, which is an approved Organisme à Vocation Sanitaire (OVS). FREDON Occitanie coordinates regional sanitary actions and receives reports from FDGDON 66.
• DRAAF OccitaniecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDirection Régionale de l'Alimentation, de l'Agriculture et de la Forêt - government partner for agricultural policy implementation and sanitary coordination.
• Chambre d'Agriculture du RoussilloncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLocal agricultural chamber partnership for coordinating farming sector sanitary actions.
• UPVD FondationmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Université des Pyrénées-Orientales for research collaboration, including a research chair created in 2019 to improve Sharka detection and management.
• FMSEOthersFonds de Mutualisation Sanitaire Elevage - agricultural mutual fund for sanitary risks.
• FDSEA 66moderateStrategic or Co-development PartnerFédération Départementale des Syndicats d'Exploitants Agricoles des Pyrénées-Orientales - departmental farmers union.
• JA 66 (Jeunes Agriculteurs)moderateStrategic or Co-development PartnerYoung Farmers organization in Pyrénées-Orientales.
• ARS OccitaniecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAgence Régionale de Santé - partnership for public health, specifically ambroisie (ragweed) control. FDGDON 66 serves as departmental referent for ambroisie.
• DDTMOthersGovernment partner for territorial and maritime department coordination.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Chambres d'Agriculture France: National network of departmental Chambers of Agriculture providing broad agronomic advisory services to farmers. Overlaps with FDGDON 66 in farmer-facing agricultural support, particularly via the local Chambre d'Agriculture du Roussillon partnership.
• Anses: French national agency for food, environmental, and occupational health safety. Operates the national plant health laboratory (LSV) and sets scientific reference for regulated pests and pathogens that FDGDON 66 monitors at the departmental level.
• FREDON France: National federation coordinating all departmental FREDON/FDGDON structures and representing them with the French Ministry of Agriculture. Operates one organizational layer above FDGDON 66 with overlapping plant-health policy mandate.

Others

• CIRAD: French agricultural research center for tropical and Mediterranean crops. Develops diagnostic tools and surveillance methods for tropical pests (including vectors relevant to Mediterranean arboriculture) that intersect with FDGDON 66's emerging-threat mandate.
• INRAE: French national research institute for agriculture, food, and environment. Conducts fundamental and applied research on plant pathogens (including Sharka and Xylella fastidiosa) that underpins FDGDON 66's field protocols and detection methods.
• CTIFL: Interprofessional technical center for fruits and vegetables, conducting applied research on arboriculture production. Complementary to FDGDON 66's regulatory surveillance work — they focus on productivity research while FDGDON 66 covers sanitary control.

Direct peers

• FDGDON 30 (Gard): Sister departmental federation covering the Gard department under the same FREDON Occitanie umbrella. Comparable pest/disease surveillance mandate (notably Flavescence Dorée) with similar Mediterranean arboriculture and viticulture profile.
• FREDON Occitanie: Regional parent federation of FDGDON 66, coordinating departmental sanitary actions across Occitanie. Runs the same OVS-approved pest and disease surveillance model at regional scale and channels reports and funding between departmental sections and DRAAF.
• GDS France: National federation of Groupements de Défense Sanitaire, the parallel approved sanitary organization structure for animal health. Same loi 1901 non-profit model, same OVS-style regulatory codification, same member-contribution financing logic — directly comparable structural archetype.
• FDGDON 34 (Hérault): Sister departmental federation in the adjacent Hérault department, operating the same OVS mandate on Mediterranean crops (vineyards, fruit orchards). Most directly comparable in scale, customer base, and regulatory framework.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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