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• AgroFresh reinforces its role as a key player in the berry industry, showcasing its integrated solutions designed to optimize the supply chain and strengthen relationships with growers, distributors and retailers.
In view of the recent published news reporting that the application in drencher of imazalil 7.5 was prohibited, we want to demean this fact and guarantee that the use of imazalil 7.5 is totally safe. Such active material has ministerial authorization and is included in the register of plant protection products of the MAPA.
Unica Fresh launches at Amazon, the marketplace world leader in electronic commerce, its line of dehydrated snacks BuenOh !, 100% natural, and with which it intends to position itself in the market as a reference product, healthy, delicious, ideal for vegans, and suitable for celiacs. With this launch, the BuenOh! They will be available in the marketplace of Spain, the United Kingdom and Germany.
The compliance organization S.L. (TEO) exclusive master licensee of the Orri variety in Spain and Portugal in the period 2017-2018, a total of 92 legal actions for illegal exploitation of mandarin Orri that can affect 172 hectares, more than 80,000 trees.
Xtractor Around The Word has begun its second expedition at the beginning of April, characterized by its solidary nature. This travel experience, which takes place in South Africa, is carried out to promote the role of agriculture and support humanitarian actions, always being one of its most important values.
The University of Lleida has published an article on the control of poor techniques in the cultivation of corn, which addresses the solutions and guidelines to end them.
The draft General State Budgets for 2018 presented on March 3 by the Government did not like anything of the Spanish farmers and ranchers. The UPA rural organization has “very harmful” accounts for the millions of people who live and work in villages. “The budgets show that the Government is committed to citizens by announcing policies that remain in nothing by not having a budget allocation,” lamented from UPA.
The BOE has published an Order of the Ministry of Finance and Public Function that sets the Net Income Indices in the income tax declaration with the reductions established on a national basis for the 2017 income statement of farmers and ranchers.
The supermarkets of ASEDAS, Spanish Association of Distributors, Supermarkets and Supermarkets foresees an increase in Christmas consumption between 3 and 5 percent. They also expect the largest influx of customers during the Christmas and New Year weeks, especially on the weekends of the 23rd and 24th and the 30th and 31st of December.
In keeping with its internationalization strategy, Grupo Agrotecnología, the leading Spanish company in the national biostimulant and biopesticide sector, was present at Growtech Eurasia, the International Fair of Greenhouses, Agricultural Equipment and Technologies, held in the Turkish city of Antalya, from November 29th to December 2, 2017.
The II Business Agro Business on the olive sector, “Olivar: quality and innovation for international markets”, held today in Cordoba, was inaugurated with the interventions of the mayor of Cordoba, Isabel Ambrosio Palos, and the Andalusian Minister of Agriculture, Rodrigo Sánchez Haro, who has highlighted the enormous opportunity offered by digitization through e-commerce so that Andalusian olive oil reaches more distant countries.
LA UNIÓ of Llauradors i Ramaders has asked the Generalitat’s Directorate General for Trade and Consumption and the Food Information and Control Agency (AICA) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment (MAPAMA) to initiate an investigation on the prices they are applying in their citrus offerings the distribution chain Alcampo and Supermercados Dia, in case they could be incurring supposedly in practices contrary to some of the guiding principles of the Law of the Food chain.
In order to accommodate to a market that is strengthening the technical standards for agricultural waste every passing day, Montosa has recently opened its own multiresidue analysis laboratory. The intent behind this is to achieve the best guarantee in managing compounds that could be harmful for both the environment and the consumers’ health.
Aurelio del Pino is President of the Association of Spanish Supermarket Chains (ACES). Felipe Medina responsible for Food Chain of the Spanish Association of Distributors, Supermarkets and Supermarkets (ASEDAS). Both have reflected, at the request of e-Comercio Agrario (ECA), on the situation of organized distribution as far as selling fruit and vegetables are concerned. And it has been and is a strategic ally for the sector, acting as a growth engine and transmission belt innovation.
On July 28th, the Association of Organisations of Producers of Fruit and Vegetables of Andalusia (APROA) held its General Assembly, in which was reported on the actions about Prevention and Crisis Management, made during 2016, to all representatives of the OPFHs. These include the delivery of more than seven kilos of fruit and vegetables to charitable organizations throughout Spain, via the withdrawal system.
The Ministry of Agriculture of Colombia (MinAgricultura), Fedecacao and the National Cocoa Fund lead a project, which is part of the plan Colombia Siembra, which
