The US International Trade Commission (USITC) has formally published its final resolution regarding the impact of imports of black olive from Spain on the California producing sector. As it happened in the preliminary ruling of early August of last year, the USITC has affirmatively decided to conclude that imports of Spanish laws cause harm in that sector.
Smurfit Kappa, leader in the paper and corrugated cardboard packaging sector, has once again revolutionized the packaging sector with the development of a new range of multi-purpose paper. It is an innovation that allows to use both digital printing, water based or UV, as with traditional flexographic printers, thus offering customers a broader range of options for their products.
The Rioja Alta, La Rioja Alavesa, the interior of Murcia and the adjoining land of Granada and Almeria make it possible to supply broccoli to the national consumer during the summer, due to the mild climate in the summer. In the rest of the zones, where this vegetable is produced in the winter and spring months, most of the companies that cultivate paralyze their work until September, due to the high temperatures and low rainfall density.
Grufesa, a firm of Moguer (Huelva) producer and marketer of berries, has already started to market its first strawberries produced in its Cabezas de Alambre (Ávila) nurseries, where since last year it has consolidated a productive area with the aim of supplying throughout the year to the markets to respond to their needs and demands.
FEPEX has transmitted to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, the main challenges of the fruit and vegetable sector, which includes the exit of the United Kingdom from the EU, third Spanish export market; the application of the CMO in Spain, and the insecurity over the supply of water resources in the main producing regions, proposing a set of measures with specific actions to modernize the farms, which will improve the competitiveness of the sector.
The fourth digital edition of the magazine ECA FRUIT of the month of May, edited by SIETE Agromarketing and e-Comercio Agrario, is already at your disposal. In it you will find the most up-to-date information of the last four-month period of the horticultural sector. And specifically, in this edition, you can not miss the special “Tropical: the kings of Europe”, where we spoke with Josep Sanchís, interviews with the Minister of Agriculture, Rodrigo Sánchez Haro and the General Director of the Food Industry, Fernando Burgaz. These are some of the topics developed in this complete publication, through opinion articles and full-time reports and interviews with some of the most prominent figures in the sector. There is also no lack of information related to the main companies and events.
As part of the promotion of the fruit, Fundación Mango Ecuador prepares the International Mango Congress for the seventh time in the country. Johnny Jara, executive director of the foundation, addressed the media explaining the benefits of the crop, and the importance of this event for foreigners and locals.
Barely begun the commercialization of spaces for DEMOAGRO 2019, the 50 Has of the pivot of Castle of Orus (Huesca) in which the celebration of this fourth edition will take place, have been occupied in their entirety.
The Minister of Agriculture of the Generalitat, Teresa Jordà, met with a representative of the Board of Afrucat to learn first hand the work of the association in terms of market monitoring, promotion and internationalization.
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development, Rodrigo Sánchez Haro, has participated in Almería in the day ‘Present and future of agriculture in the Lower Andarax’ organized by COAG, in which he reiterated that “the transfers are, day Today, a need to ensure irrigation in the field, although the future is through the use of reclaimed and desalinated water. For the representative of the Andalusian Government, “it is not a question that we can choose, it is a matter of necessity because we have to guarantee the water security of our farmers”. Likewise, it has recognized that regenerated and desalinated waters open an “important field of work, in which we have to move forward. I really believe that there is the future. ”
During his speech, Sanchez Haro has reported that the Ministry returned to make, yesterday, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food “the demands that we have been making from Andalusia on water.” Among these, the Board’s claim to lower the price of desalinated water -0.30 euros per cubic meter maximum- for Andalusian farmers has stood out.
In addition, he has again raised the need for a “shock plan for the optimization of desalination for the Mediterranean, the creation of a working group and the establishment of a calendar to prioritize and coordinate actions in the field of pending hydraulic infrastructures” . “The change of central government does not stop the priority issues for our land, quite the opposite,” said the head of Andalusian Agriculture, which stressed that for this type of problem solutions are needed to ensure the production of farmers and to achieve them we must collaborate together. ”
In this regard, he recalled the aid that the Board has made available to the Andalusian agri-food sector for investments in irrigation: more than 66 million, to which we will add another 43 million euros this year, which will include specific lines to take advantage of reclaimed water.
During his speech, the counselor praised the commitment of farmers in the area of Bajo Andarax for organic production, both in citrus and protected crops. “Organic production is not the only productive system that measures the degree of sustainability of agriculture in this territory, which also puts into practice integrated production and biological control of pests.”
The future CAP
Likewise, Sánchez Haro has once again insisted on the need to maintain a common position among all the provinces and the entire Andalusian agri-food sector in defense of the future Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). “From the Ministry we will work to achieve it, since we are aware that a strong CAP is essential to promote a diverse agriculture and a live rural environment”.
For this, he recalled that from Andalusia “we support the central government is firm and forceful in defending the budget, for which the European Commission proposed a cut of 16% that comes to delve into the 1.052 million euros that we have already lost in the current frame “.
“We want a communitarian agrarian policy that maintains the support to the pluriactivos farmers, that is designed with perspective of gender to construct a more egalitarian sector, that includes a maximum limitation to the aids distributing the detraído amount between small and average exploitations of the same region “, it is finished.
