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    • Isabel García Tejerina, ministra de Agricultura de España, durante la feria Conxemar de 2015, en Vigo. Foto: Ministerio de Agricultura de España.

    The Ministry signs four collaboration agreements to modernize 9,000 hectares of irrigated land in Alto Aragón and Málaga

    The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment, Isabel García Tejerina, attended the signing ceremony of the regulatory agreement for the financing, construction and operation of the modernization works of the irrigations of three Irrigation Communities of the Ministry at the headquarters of the Ministry. Alto Aragón (Orellana, Cartuja de San Juan and Molinar del Flumen) and the Central Users Board of the South of Guaro (Málaga).

    Chile opens a lemon market in the United States under a systems approach

    The Ministry of Agriculture of Chile announced after 4 years of negotiations the approval by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the Department of Agriculture of the United States (USDA) the certification of Chilean lemons under Systems Approach. Thus, an alternative is offered that will allow our country to export lemons in higher quality conditions, since it avoids fumigation with methyl bromide, substantially improving the post-harvest conditions of this fruit to a market in which Chile is the main provider.
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    The Government increases the budgets allocated to Agriculture

    The Secretary General of Agriculture and Food, Carlos Cabanas, Minister of Agriculture, Food and Environment of the Congress of Deputies, that the budget of the General Secretariat marks a continuity of the objectives of the agri-food and rural development policies agreed for this legislation , looking for maximum effectiveness in the application of funds.
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    MAPAMA presents the new UNE standards for the organic market

    The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment together with the Ecovalía Association have organized a National Day for the presentation of the new AENOR standards of inputs for use in organic farming, which has been held in Almeria, with the participation of the Deputy Director General of Differentiated Quality and Organic Agriculture, Javier Maté and the President of Ecovalía, Álvaro Barreda.

    The control of weeds in the cultivation of corn

    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.

    UPA criticizes that the budgets of Rajoy for 2018 perpetuate the abandonment of the rural environment

    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.

    EU: Commission opens a Knowledge Center to boost quality and fight against food fraud

    Starting tomorrow, March 13th, the European Commission will put into operation a Knowledge Center on Food Fraud and Food Quality, managed by the Joint Research Center, in response to consumer concerns about the quality of food. food and fraudulent food practices. This new Knowledge Center, a network of experts from within and outside the Commission, will provide support to EU policy makers and national authorities, facilitating access to up-to-date scientific knowledge and the sharing of information on food fraud. and on issues of food quality.

    Valentín Almansa: “Internal Health begins at the borders and with this idea we work from the MAPAMA”

    The Director General of Agricultural Production of MAPAMA, Valentin Almansa, responds in the following interview to outstanding issues of his Department, such as the current situation of Spain in relation to the Xylella or the importance of the daily control that is carried out in the borders to preserve the plant and animal health of our productions. The last extension granted by the EU to the use of glyphosate, together with the export agreements that are being forged this year with third countries, have been other issues addressed.

    Jaime Hernani: “The export figures for agricultural machinery are really spectacular”

    Interview for ECA AGRI to Jaime Hernani, general director of the Spanish Association of Manufacturers-Exporters of Agricultural Machinery and Components, Greenhouses, Crop Protection, Irrigation Systems, Livestock Equipment, Animal Health and Nutrition, Forestry, Biomass and Forest Machinery Post-harvest (Agragex), who analyzes for us the sales of agricultural machinery abroad.

    The first Spanish debate on the CAP 2020

    Elisa Plumed's opinion piece on food reform, reflecting on future reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).