Throughout the days of Field that Syngenta has been celebrating during February and March, producers, technicians of cooperatives and heads of purchase of the great national and European distribution have had the opportunity to know the wide offer of this company in the segment of leafy vegetables (lettuce, endive, spinach and brassicas), highlighting its innovations in Baby Leaf for VI Range, in both red and green.
The commitment to quality and internationalization are key to the future of the melon and watermelon sector in Castilla-La Mancha, as it emerges from the Workshop “Vertebration and organization of the Melon and Watermelon sector in Castilla-La Mancha”, Recently celebrated in the Cooperativa Santiago Apóstol de Tomelloso (Ciudad Real), by Agro-food Cooperatives Castilla-La Mancha.
The turnover of the cooperative group Anecoop has grown 10.7% during the last campaign, reaching 639 million euros. It is the best exercise to date of this company not only in marketed value, but also in volume, which has experienced an increase of 4.8% to exceed 782,000 tonnes. In all, the consolidated of all the companies of the group amounts to 930,000 tons and 802 million euros.
The Citrus company specializing in post-harvest technology for citrus, Citrosol, has been contributing with its advice and advances in R & D & I to the fact that Egypt’s leading exporting companies are approaching markets in the Middle East and even in China and Australia. This was evidenced in the post-harvest technical seminar that Citrosol held in Cairo, in collaboration with the Agricultural Export Council (AEC) of Egypt.
Representatives of ASPROCAN Banana Growers Organizations have visited Casablanca these days to learn firsthand about the opportunities available for banana exports from the Canary Islands to Morocco. In this trip, organized in collaboration with the Spanish Institute of Foreign Trade (ICEX), the Canarian delegation has held meetings with the main horticultural companies of distribution and maturation of Moroccan bananas and with interest in the introduction of the Canarian Plantain in the market of that country.
The second edition of the Technical Symposium “From Experts to Experts” of COMPO EXPERT has summoned more than 150 professionals from the agricultural sector, a success of attendance and participation for an event that, in this occasion, has been held in Cordoba and focused on the cultivation of the olive grove. The role of biofertilizers and rhizobacteria, irrigation and fertilization in super-intensive olive cultivation have been some of the issues addressed.
The commemoration of the World Water Day brings us to this interview with María Dolores Jiménez Ruz, technical and commercial director of HIDROSOPH España, a company specialized in the sustainable management of irrigation … With she we have addressed issues as important to agriculture as the optimization of the use of water in irrigation systems and, in short, the need to continue to advance, with a more effective commitment by the different administrations, in the development of R & D & I projects that entail greater savings and profitability for the farmer.
Green products from Norway and Iceland, including Norwegian organic salmon, are again eligible for import into the European Union and marketed properly in line with their organic product standards following the incorporation of the relevant rules of the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA).
Member organizations of ALAS, Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture (ASAJA and UPA, Agro-food Cooperatives of Spain, the Spanish Federation of Associations of Producers Exporters of Fruits, Vegetables, Flowers and Living Plants (FEPEX) and the Spanish Association of Conservation / Soils (AEAC / SV)) have celebrated the scientific opinion of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) according to which “the scientific evidence available does not permit the classification of glyphosate as carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic for reproduction”.
On February 4th, the authorities of the People’s Republic of China confirmed that the country has access to nectarines from Chile, a long awaited news from this South American country, whose materialization has been possible thanks to the joint work of the sector Public and private.
