The European Commission presented on Wednesday its proposal for the next budget of the European Union (EU), which covers from 2021 to 2027 and which proposes cuts in agricultural and cohesion funds – 5% and 7%. A proposal that has not sat well in the sector and has led to multiple groups such as Cooperativas Agro-Alimentarias de España, UPA, ASAJA or COAG have expressed their rejection of these cuts.
The extra virgin olive oil of the Montes de Granada Protected Designation of Origin and the Protected Geographical Indication “Espárrago de Huétor Tájar”, with the support of Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias de Granada, promote their excellence, quality and culinary versatility in the event unavoidable that represents the International Fair of Food and Beverage Quality, Hall of Gourmets, which is held from May 7 to 10 in Madrid (IFEMA).
The Secretary General of Agriculture and Food, Carlos Cabanas, today opened the Food and Beverage Quality Fair, Hall of Gourmets 2018, held at the IFEMA fairgrounds in Madrid, where he highlighted the possibilities offered by this forum to know First hand, the concerns and interests of the operators that attend it, and which are of great interest for the design and development of policies that respond to sectoral problems.
On the occasion of San Isidro Labrador, Patron of all farmers, AGRIARGO IBERICA, S.A. will hold a conference on agriculture, at its facilities in Villamarciel (Valladolid), on Saturday May 12 from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm.
“What the European Commission intends with the CAP is impossible”. This has been expressed by the Union of Small Farmers and Ranchers to know the proposed EU budget for the years 2021 to 2027. “They want farmers and ranchers to do miracles,” they said. “Tell us how we are going to produce more food, more varied and sustainable, at reasonable prices, each time with less aid,” he asked.
Agri-food Cooperatives of Spain considers the EU budget proposal for the period 2021-2027 presented on May 2 by the president of the European Commission, Jean Claude Juncker, and the Budget Commissioner, Günther Oettinger, as disappointing and disappointing.
The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment, Isabel García Tejerina, has presided today, at the headquarters of the Ministry, the act of awarding recognition to four new Priority Association Entities. It is the Consortium for the Promotion of the Sheep, S.C .; the Sociedad Cooperativa Andaluza Ganadera del Valle de los Pedroches (COVAP); the Sociedad Cooperativa Limitada Bajo Duero (COBADU); and the Unió Corporació Alimentária S.C.C.L.
Fundación Grupo Siro and Fundación LAFER have signed a collaboration agreement with the aim of promoting the insertion of talent in the agrifood company, favoring the employability and professional careers of the students of the Master in Management of Agrifood Companies (MGEA) that the LAFER Foundation promotes from 2010.
The general director of the Food Industry, Fernando Burgaz, has participated in the conference “Fruits and vegetables: nutrition and health in the 21st century Spain”, where he pointed out that fresh fruits and vegetables are a fundamental product in the diet of Spanish households and in the composition of their shopping cart.
The scale of the historic sailboat Le Marité in Alicante and the opening of the photographic exhibition “Exotic Taste of Europe” on board are the first actions of the second campaign of the Ultraperipheral Regions of Europe presented in the Levantine city. Three agricultural organizations of the aforementioned banana producing regions (ASPROCAN, Spain) and bananas (GESBA, Portugal and UGPBAN, Martinique and Guadeloupe) lead the campaign that disseminates the quality of their agricultural products and the European logo that certifies them, as well as the importance of the sector for the economy and the environment of the ORs.
