The IGP Purple Garlic of Las Pedroñeras has carried out several cardiosaludable workshops within the framework of the XXXIII Heart Week in Madrid, which took place from September 27th to October 1st, by the Spanish Heart Foundation and Spanish Society of Cardiology.
More than 600 professionals, from the Andalusian Autonomous Community and the national level, will attend the 5th Congress that Agro-food Cooperatives of Andalusia will celebrate the 4th and 5th of October, in the fairgrounds of the capital of Jaen (IFEJA).
The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment, Isabel García Tejerina, inaugurated the 63rd edition of the Feria Agraria de Sant Miquel and the 32nd edition of Eurofruit, highlighting the fair’s commitment to precision agriculture, whose clearest example is the use of drones. She also congratulated the organization for the record number of exhibitors, occupied area and foreign countries participating in this last edition. In the words of García Tejerina, “we are in an interconnected and interdependent Europe” and pointed out that “thanks to joint agrarian policies, the European Union has become the world’s leading exporter of agri-food products and that Spain’s agri-food industry is the fourth European power and the world’s eighth”.
The Socialist MEP and Vice-President of the Committee on Agriculture in the European Parliament, Clara Aguilera, has called on the European Commission to take urgent steps to halt the progress of Xylella fastidiosa, which is already affecting several countries in continental Europe, including Spain and more concretely to the regions of the Valencian Community and Baleares. Aguilera recalls that no administration should “evade its responsibility to stop the plague” and calls for compensation for affected producers.
Once again Fendtgüinos has become the largest concentration of tractors in Spain. This year’s edition was held last Thursday, September 21st in Linares (Jaén), culminating in a great success of call and public participation: a total of 341 Fendt machines were gathered between tractors, combine harvesters, packers and forage implements, in addition to about 4,000 people, the vast majority of professional farmers.
Hispatec has been present with its own stand at Expoalimentaria, the most powerful agro-food fair in Peru and one of the most important in South America. About 45,000 visitors attended the edition last year and the organization is confident that it will be a number that is exceeded these days.
The Government Board of the Official College of Agricultural Engineers of Levante (COIAL) and the executive committee of the Valencian Association of Farmers (AVA-ASAJA) have held a working meeting at the Sinyent agrarian experimentation farm, where they have agreed to close their ties of collaboration to promote the development of the Valencian agricultural system. In this context, COIAL has granted the president of the aforementioned agrarian organization, Cristóbal Aguado, the distinction of Honorary Collegiate, coinciding with the commemoration during this year of the fortieth anniversary of the birth of AVA-ASAJA.
The 6th edition of the Andalucía Sabor fair closed its doors last 27th of September, with results that confirm the professional and commercial character of this event. Throughout its three days of celebration, this fair has received more than 5,500 visitors and has allowed more than 2,100 meetings arranged from the national and international missions in which have participated 20 Spanish buyers and another 52 of 25 countries of highlighting those coming from the US, Canada, Brazil, Europe and Asia.
In the following interview with ECA, Phil Hogan, European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, addresses, among other things, the most urgent issues concerning the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP); the need to seek effective remedies against unfair trade practices or to defend fairer conditions for European producers in trade association agreements with third countries in the EU.
According to the latest INFOVI (Market Information System for the Wine Sector), the current wine campaign 2017 – 2018 has begun with a stock of wine and must of 33.3 million hectoliters. This is a level of stocks somewhat higher than the average of the last four years, which will contribute to improving the balance of the market in the current campaign, marked by a forecast of low production, both in Spain and in other EU producing countries.
