I Young Farmers in the Fira de Sant Josep of Mollerussa

In the absence of more than three weeks, the Lleida contest is almost 100% occupancy with 276 exhibitors and an increase in the grounds of 8% compared to last year. The 144 Fira de Sant Josep of Mollerussa, to be held from 17 to 20 March, will host on Thursday 18th the First Meeting of Young Farmers, which is also useful for young entrepreneurs present their experiences “and can be an encouraging example”.

This call wants to become a referent for the sector and have a continuity within the Lleida agricultural contest. This was announced this morning by the Director General of Food Quality and Food and Drink Industries of the Department of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food (DARP) of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Antoni Diaz, and the director of Fira of Mollerussa, Poldo Segarra, in a press conference that served to present the program of technical workshops to be held within the next fair and has also had Jaume Sió, vice Transfer and Innovation Agri-Foods, DARP.

On the initiative, Diaz explained that technology will not only try but also for young entrepreneurs will present their experiences “and can be an encouraging example.” For its part, the director of the fair has added that the aim is to be translated into “a day of reference and meeting point for farmers starting where they can find the latest news while sharing concerns and experiences.”

The First Meeting of Young Farmers is subtitled in this first edition of Young Entrepreneurs and New Technologies, and is organized by the Department of Agriculture and the agricultural associations (i Ramaders Agricultors Joves de Catalunya, Farmers Union and the Federation of Cooperatives of Agràries Catalunya).

Conference program within the framework of the Fira of Sant Josep of Mollerussa starts Thursday 25th February with the XV Intercomarcal Corn Day co-organized by IRTA, the DARP and Fira de Mollerussa. In total, the program includes 13 sessions in addition to the 15th Interpirenaica Grain Exchange, Gardening Contest, Contest handlers, various meetings and assemblies professionals.

During today’s presentation, Segarra recalled the commitment of being fair in recent years to increase the field days, within a philosophy traffic to demonstrative exhibition fair. In this regard, this year are planned up to four days demonstration of agricultural machinery and field tools.

For its part, the general director of Catalan Agriculture explained that since the Department there is great interest in three areas: the youth / women / future; the irrigation, and technology transfer. Thus, besides the meeting aimed at young entrepreneurs, the DARP cooperate “intensively” in shaping the training program within the framework of the Fair of Sant Josep highlighting the strategies of major crops irrigation session in the area during the campaign , on 17 March.

InnoEspai presents an exhibition platform of developments in agriculture

Also new this year will be InnoEspai, a platform that wants to put in place in future editions and from which IRTA and Fira de Mollerussa want to expose new techniques in agriculture and which currently already has four participating firms.

On 9 and 10 March in the town of Ivars d’Urgell will be held the second symposium provided outside the days of the fair. This call gets a new impetus and expanded this year to two days (a theoretical and a practical) under the title of Technical Conference on Precision Agriculture Machinery and demonstration.

As part of the celebration and the 144 Fira de Sant Josep, highlight the new technology demo day for fertilization, where a system of geolocation that allow more efficient management of livestock waste, making a path from the point will be presented load of manure or slurry and to the farm where he will focus; a session on biomass, with bilateral meetings with participating companies; the day of the Plant Protection Associations on emerging pests; the dedicated to irrigation, or on the generational change in the country.

A band, the Interpirenaica Cereals Exchange reaches its 15th edition and will meet again in Mollerussa operators, last year 400, from different parts of the Spanish State and Europe, especially in southern France and Switzerland, among other places like Russia Ukraine and even last year, the United States.

Also mention the Catalan Championship 2016 Vocational Training Catskills Gardening, organized by the Education Department and Fira Mollerussa, which will take place in the contest. Coinciding with this contest will be a hall of gardening with the presence of different exhibitors.

Fair, nearly 100% occupancy and an increase of 8% to Campus Exterior

In the absence of more than three weeks for the 144 Fira de Sant Josep opens its doors, the fairgrounds is almost 100% occupancy compared to last year. Thus, the absence of concrete stands and plots the past, the event already has enrollment of 276 exhibitors (280 last year), a figure which foresees an increase in participation in this year.

As for the different campuses, right now, and in the absence of closing some areas, there are 128 signatures Exterior Campus, 130 to 18 pavilions Exhibition and Motor. In this regard, stresses the participatory increase the outdoor complex agricultural machinery and accessories for agriculture and livestock exhibits, by almost 8%, an increase that is given by the growth of Sector D (located to the exhibition halls and the other side of the canal) where they have booked exhibition space up to six firms biomass.

Source: Fira de Mollerussa