The AVB is a non-profit organisation founded in December 1978 that currently has 100 member companies, representing approximately 75% of the nursery growers in the province.
The AVB is a founding member of the Federació d’Agricultors Viveristes de Catalunya (Federation of Nursery Growers of Catalonia), created in 1992 together with the associations of Girona, Lleida and Tarragona. The FVC is in turn a member of FEPEX (the Spanish Federation of Fruit, Vegetable and Live Plant Producers and Exporters), a nationwide organisation.