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    • Elena Montero: “Yara’s commitment is to reduce the carbon footprint of its products and its environmental impact”

    Yara, a world leader in plant nutrition, has been facing a new stage since its division for Spain and Portugal (Yara Iberian), which began at the beginning of the year with the appointment of Elena Montero as its new director general. In this interview, ECA addresses the main axes of action, objectives and concerns of this company, committed to solving the main challenges of agriculture of the future: to feed an increasingly large world population and contribute to the preservation of resources promoting the use of sustainable practices.

    Countdown to the APAE University Expert Course on Agro-Food Communication

    Next Friday, February 24th, the University Expert Course in Agri-Food Communication, organized by the Association of Spanish Agro-Food Journalists (APAE) in collaboration with the University of San Jorge (USJ), will begin, and the last act of presentation took place The past 1 of February in the CaixaForum of Saragossa.
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    Peru: The fruit and vegetable sector generates in Fruit Logística 200 million dollars in business

    The Peruvian companies participating in the last edition of Fruit Logística have settled their participation in this important international fair of the sector hortofrutícola, closing businesses for a global value of 200 million dollars. For the Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism, Eduardo Ferreyros, this is a "record figure", having exceeded by 32% the initial expectations.

    UPA warns that CETA will hurt the interests of the European agri-food sector

    The Union of Small Farmers and Ranchers (UPA) has warned that the free trade agreement with Canada, recently approved by the European Parliament, will harm the interests of many people and sectors, benefiting only the large multinationals. For this organization, CETA is postulated as a new "unfair agreement" in which European society -and especially the primary sector - "will not make anything clear and will appear new competitors that will hinder their survival".

    The salons of wine, oil and fruit and vegetables of Feria de Zaragoza close with almost 27,000 visitors

    The agri-food salons ENOMAQ, TECNOVID, OLEOMAQ, OLEOTEC and FRUYVER closed their last edition, last February 17th, with an important influx of professionals, more than 26,800, a fact that consolidates Feria de Zaragoza, organizer of these events, as a reference of the wine, oil and fruits and vegetables sectors.
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    Tejerina is committed to making Murcia the region with the greatest investment in water infrastructure

    The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment, Isabel García Tejerina, has promised that Murcia will be the region where most will be invested in infrastructure to solve water problems, during a meeting held with the Governing Council Of Agri-Food Cooperatives of Spain, where the Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives of the Region of Murcia (Fecoam), is represented by its president, Santiago Martínez.

    Fenacore supports a project that will save on irrigation 30% of energy and water

    The National Federation of Irrigation Communities (FENACORE) has participated in a European project whose objective is to promote on a large scale an intelligent irrigation system capable of saving up to 30% energy and up to 30% water, without affecting the quality standards that foreign markets demand for crops.

    Grupo AMC and Citrus Genesis ask that the authorities investigate if mandarins of the Sigal variety have been introduced illegally in Spain

    In relation to information published by various media, including ECA, referring to a complaint by La Unió de Llauradors i Ramaders on the existence of plant material of the Sigal mandarin variety which would have been illegally introduced in Spain, Grupo AMC and Citrus Genesis have asked authorities to investigate the veracity of this information.

    Castilla-La Mancha begins pollination with bumblebees to increase production in almond

    Koppert Biological System has initiated the introduction of natural pollination with bumblebees in Castilla-La Mancha, to increase production in almond. To this end, it has developed and patented a hive, called commercially TRIPOL, designed specifically to pollinate fruit and woody crops, even with cold and other climatic adversities, and that contributes to increase the almond harvest up to 30%.

    MAPAMA promotes the commercial contacts of Spanish companies in BIOFACH 2017

    The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment promoted these days, from 15th to 18th February, the Spanish organic products in the Fair BIOFACH 2017, through an institutional stand in which, apart from showing the richness and diversity of the sector, under the motto "Ecological products: good for nature, good for you", Spanish companies will be able to work their business contacts and expand their portfolio of international clients, in the two areas of professional meetings enabled for this purpose.