Every morning, when you have a cup of coffee, orange juice or sparkling bread with honey, without even account, enjoyed an ecosystem called pollination which depend three out of four edible plants. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the economic contribution of pollination is estimated to be up to 170.00 million annually, equivalent to 10% of the total food value.
Minister of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Isabel García Tejerina, has urged the food industry to research, innovate and adapt its offer to the needs and demands of the market, being able to differentiate for competing on quality and keep winning positions and value added. García Tejerina has launched this message in the delivery of the first edition of Grupo Siro Foundation Award for Food Research, ceremony which she has presided.
Spain will be immediately able to export beef, sheep and goats meat to the Kingdom of Saudi Araba, after formal authorization issued by the health authorities of this country, where good quality of Spanish meat products stand out. Such authorization comes after a long period of intensive negotiations between the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment and the Food Safety Authority Arabia (SFDA).
The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) is collaborating with the Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA) of Mexico, in developing an initiative for reviving the coffee sector in this country. The main objective of this proposal is to improve productivity and, by extension, the living conditions of small producers of grain.
Finca La Torre, SLU, Bobadilla (Malaga) has won the Spain Food Award for Best Extra Virgin Olive Oil Campaign 2015-2016 after getting their AOVE most organoleptic score in the blind tasting conducted by the Official Tasters Panel of Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment (MAGRAMA), where on July 14th the ceremony of the awards, chaired by the Minister, Isabel García Tejerina was held. The same mill also won the award for best oil in the category of organic production.
Olive oil is a product whose global consumption is expanding, as evidenced with forecasts for the 2015/2016 campaign, aimed at more than 3 million tons, representing a growth of 6% with respect to the above, according to the International Olive Oil Council (IOOC). Increase reflected mainly in non-producing countries, which exceed 25% of the total compared with 11% representing 15 years ago. The International Fair of Olive Oil (wooe, its acronym in English), which will host IFEMA Madrid on 29th and 30th March 2017, will be the ideal place to promote this excellent news for the sector forum.
AVA-ASAJA has denounced the “virulent business strategy” that are carrying out the supermarket chains, consisting of supply of watermelon “to Busted prices”, aiming not only to attract more customers using this fruit as a ruse, but also sink quotes watermelon on the field and reverse a trend that, for the first time in recent seasons, was tested positive for the farmer.
The production of the recently concluded 2015-2016 Huelva strawberry season has increased to 294,650 tons of a 2% compared to last season, although the hectares planted decreased by 8.7%. As for turnover, it has posted the 395.150.o00 euros, representing an increase of 8% over billings in the previous season. As a commercial point, noting that the quality of the Huelva strawberry has allowed it to stay in the market in May, despite competition from other European productions.
Almost 80% of the growers in Almería has its certified by a seal of quality productions and 70% carry Biological Control, as is clear from the study “Unbreakable province of Almeria system vegetable production, as a result of the collaboration between the Institute and Fisheries Agricultural Training (IFAPA) and the Cajamar Foundation, which recently presented the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development, of Andalusian Goverment, Carmen Ortiz.
The Spanish meat industry has valued the opening of the Mexican market to its production of pigmeat, as manifested from the Office of Export Meat Spain (OEEC). Spain thus becomes the first country in the European Union authorized to export pig meat to Mexico.
