Bayer bets on innovative solutions for more productive and sustainable digital agriculture
Bayer, in collaboration with ASAJA Sevilla and Vantage, met last May 23th experts from all areas of the agricultural sector to share knowledge and advance the development of digital agriculture as a path to a more productive and sustainable agriculture that can help meet the challenge of feeding 9 billion people by the year 2050. Bayer's Digital Farming Day brought together more than 300 professionals from the agricultural sector who had the opportunity to meet, discuss and learn about the digital transformation of agriculture today through various theoretical and practical activities.
Register without fail to the 1st National Business Forum Agro ‘Agroprofesional Women. For Equal Opportunities’
Do not miss the opportunity to join the First National Business Forum Agro 'Agroprofesional Women. For Equal Opportunities, to be held next June 7th in Seville, organized by SIETE Agromarketing and e-Comercio Agrario (ECA). Its objective is to create a space for debate where women and men can give visibility to the work developed by women. In this way, more than 200 participants, among executives, professionals, and entrepreneurs of the entire agro-food chain, will share an intense day of conversations, experiences, motivations and aspirations, with the sole purpose of promoting a space for dialogue and networking, Talks, dynamic and innovative gatherings and interviews 'tu a tu'. Women's leadership as a tool for equal opportunities and representation in the agro-food sector, entrepreneurship and innovation will be the axes around which this meeting will take place.
Prices of melon and watermelon are down 60% and 10%, respectively, compared to last season
The Association of Fruit and Vegetable Producers' Organizations of Almería (COEXPHAL) has described as "very bad" the current melon and watermelon campaign, given that farmers who have opted for these fruits typical of the Almeria spring season are enduring its sale at prices below the threshold of profitability. All this translates into a little viable campaign in which, in the case of melon, the average contribution to date is 60% below the average of last year. As for watermelon, their prices have fallen 10% compared to the previous season.
FADEMUR reduces carbon footprint in food thanks to the Redmur program
The Federation of Rural Women's Associations (FADEMUR) has been promoting the reduction of the carbon footprint in food, through the program "Redmur: Network of entrepreneurship and socio-labor insertion for the diversification of sustainable activities in the rural environment", in Which involved artisans and entrepreneurs from Galicia, Extremadura, Castilla y León, Castilla-La Mancha, Madrid and the Valencian Community. A work that has materialized in the realization of the detailed study of carbon footprint of sugarless and ecological chestnut jam, one of the star products of the artisan company Caurelor, based in Quiroga (Lugo).
JCB FASTRAC harvests applause in Demoagro 2017
The JCB machinery firm takes the revolution to work in the field, with the participation of its best assets in DEMOAGRO 2017, among them its most emblematic model, FASTRAC, which won the admiration of the public. Responsible for this brand valued their participation in the third edition of DEMOAGRO, held on May 9th, 10th and 11th, in the farm "La Granja" of San Clemente (Cuenca), where it occupied an area of two hectares, within the sector of "DEMOSUELO".
MAPAMA attributes the growth of holdings shared ownership to the implementation of its Law
The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment (MAPAMA) has linked the growth of the number of farms shared ownership with the implementation of Law 35/2011, which regulates everything concerning this regime in the sector agrarian. This was evidenced during the meeting recently held by the general director of Rural Development and Forest Policy MAPAMA, Esperanza Orellana, with associations of rural women, agricultural professional organizations and Agro-food Cooperatives, to analyze the development of the Law of shared ownership and the actions related to the process of discharging the agricultural holdings in the mentioned regime.
Almond production in Castilla-La Mancha is estimated at 7% more, despite the spring frosts
Agri-food Cooperatives of Castilla-La Mancha has carried out…
It is expected for the 2017 campaign to recover normal levels of production in bone fruit
The forecasts of this campaign in bone fruit point to a recovery of normal levels of production, compared to a previous campaign in which production was low because of adverse weather. Thus, and according to the estimates of the different Autonomous Communities, analyzed in the meeting held on May 17 by the general director of Productions and Agricultural Markets of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment, Fernando Miranda, with the organizations Representative of the horticultural sector, production is expected to increase compared to last year 2016 for all products of the sector such as peach, nectarine, paraguay, apricot and cherry, with the exception of plums.
SIETE and e-Comercio Agrario launch ECA AGRI, first current year in agricultural machinery and agriculture
The first edition of the yearbook published by SIETE Agromarketing and e-Comercio Agrario, ECA AGRI, is now at your disposal, where you will find the most relevant information in the agricultural and agricultural machinery sector. The analysis of the agricultural machinery market in Spain, the latest developments in favor of greater sustainability and environmental respect or the CAP beyond 2020, are some of the topics developed in this complete publication, through opinion articles and reports Of full relevance and interviews to some of the most outstanding personages of the sector. There is no lack of information related to the main companies and events, and our Special Dossier on Plant Health. Do not miss it!
Chile signs an agreement with the EU that equates the certification standards of ecological products
Chile and the European Union have recently signed a historic agreement on trade in organic products, matching the rules in both areas for the certification of these products.