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    • ALAS calls on the Socialist Group in Congress to take the scientific approach to its decisions on glyphosate

    Representatives of ALAS (Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture) met on April 6th with Felipe Sicilia, spokesman for Agriculture of the PSOE in the Congress of Deputies, to request the agreement of their Group with the importance of giving precedence to scientific criteria when deciding about the extension of the authorization of the use of glyphosate, showing, thus, its commitment to the Spanish field and with the scientific criteria that have always guided its decisions regarding the tools for the sustainability of the European agricultural model.
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    The city of Olivenza will host on April 27 the IE Forum on intensive and super intensive olive

    Interempresas Media, together with the advertising agency Clúster Marketing & Comunication, will celebrate the IE Olivar Forum on April 27th, with the collaboration of Apag Extremadura ASAJA, CTAEX and CICYTEX, and will focus on the intensive and super intensive olive grove. Under the title 'Olivar, incombustible cultivation', this event will be held in the Convento San Juan de Dios of Olivenza (Badajoz) and will bring together experts from the olive sector of Spain and Portugal who will share all their knowledge and experience on the particularities of this type of culture.
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    ASAJA Albacete mobilizes thousands of farmers and ranchers in defense of the rural environment, under the motto “No field, no life”

    ASAJA Albacete has staged a demonstration in the capital of his province, on Thursday, April 6th, under the motto "No field, no life", demanding measures to the regional and central administration to solve the very serious situation of the agrarian sector, including, among others, the declaration of Plague of the mountain rabbit and other species of big game, with measures to eradicate these pests; a plan of irrigation that guarantees the future of the exploitations and the wealth in the region: 1,500 hm3 for 500,000 has. to 20 years; that CAP aid should be more agile, consistent with rules and, above all, basic to the viability of farms: that the aid should not be delayed.

    The cultivation of citrus fruits, protagonist of the II course of specialization of the chair of FMC at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena

    The citrus sector has focused the second course of specialization of the chair of FMC in the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, recently held at its School of Agricultural Engineering. A hundred technicians and agricultural engineers from large farms and agri-food and distribution companies, many coming from Catalonia, Valencia and Andalusia, have been trained in biostimulation and other natural defense measures of application in citrus cultivation.

    Thousands of farmers “take” the city of Murcia claiming a solution for the Mar Menor

    Thousands of farmers, more than 400 tractors and hundreds of trucks keep a demonstration in the capital of Murcia on Wednesday, April 5th in demand of a solution for the Mar Menor that allows them to continue producing food sustainably in the region of Campo de Cartagena. After 24 hours of peaceful concentration, protesters have called for the commitment of the Agriculture Minister, Isabel García Tejerina, to go to Murcia to meet with them to "immediately" find a solution to their situation.

    EU: Spain will defend approval of the protocol proposed by the Canary Islands to eliminate Guatemalan moth

    The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment, Isabel García Tejerina, has assured that the Spanish Government is working so that the protocol proposed by the Canary Government for the elimination of the Guatemalan Moth is approved in the European Union, so that the Canary Islands potato can be exported back to EU territory. Protocol which, in its day, was sent to the European Commission and whose approval is currently being negotiated.

    The Interprofessional of Wine will strengthen its collaboration with the Regulatory Councils

    The Interprofessional of Wine of Spain has recently celebrated its Ordinary General Assembly, preceded by a Board of Directors, in which it has been agreed to continue working with the Spanish Conference of Wine Regulatory Councils (CECRV) for the signing of an agreement between both that allows the Creation of a Joint Committee in which the representatives of the Regulatory Councils participate and their incorporation in the Marketing Commission, in charge of the promotion actions.

    Ángel Vera: “Expoliva 2017 will gather for the first time the 57 olive oil producing countries of the world”

    The next edition of Expoliva, the most important fair in the…

    The first Spanish debate on the CAP 2020

    Elisa Plumed's opinion piece on food reform, reflecting on future reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

    The EU’s Banana Prices Observatory analyzes the impact of imports

    On 29th March, the first working meeting of the Community Banana and Banana Price Observatory, held in the framework of the 4th Forum of the Outermost Regions (RUP), was held in Brussels. The objective of this meeting was to measure the specific impact of banana imports from third countries on the markets of European producer countries and, if necessary, to take measures aimed at ensuring the survival of the Community crop