The Spanish MEPs denounce the defamatory campaign of French winegrowers against Spain
Spanish socialists in the European Parliament have urged urgent measures to be taken to defend Spanish wine in order to counteract the effects of an advertising campaign launched by French farmers with a clearly defamatory aim and which, in its view, "represents a infringement of the single market and of the EU's competition rules".
The Wine Technological Platform will present its strategic lines of R & D & I at its Annual Meeting in Cambados
Cambados, recently designated European Wine City 2017, has been the venue for the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Wine Technological Platform (PTV), which will take place on May 4th and 5th. An essential event for the wine sector, in which both partners and non-members of the PTV are invited to enjoy a program that will cover technical and recreational activities. All this, in an exceptional scenario, Bodegas Martín Códax. On the occasion of the aforementioned meeting, the PTV Technical Commission will present its 2017-2020 Strategic Innovation Agenda, which includes the main priorities and strategic lines of action for R & D & I for the future of the sector.
The Interprofessional of Wine will strengthen its collaboration with the Regulatory Councils
The Interprofessional of Wine of Spain has recently celebrated its Ordinary General Assembly, preceded by a Board of Directors, in which it has been agreed to continue working with the Spanish Conference of Wine Regulatory Councils (CECRV) for the signing of an agreement between both that allows the Creation of a Joint Committee in which the representatives of the Regulatory Councils participate and their incorporation in the Marketing Commission, in charge of the promotion actions.
Syngenta implements pollination practices to preserve biodiversity in Abadía Retuerta vineyards
The Abadía Retuerta farm, located in the Valladolid municipality of Sardón del Duero, practices environmentally friendly agriculture and recovers biodiversity in the margins of its vineyards, through Operation Pollinator, an international program implemented by Syngenta with the collaboration of different scientific organizations in Spain, whose objective is the establishment of specific habitats for pollinating insects in the margins of the crops, which allow the creation of natural refuges for pollinators and encourage the presence of other arthropods useful as predators and parasitoids.
The salons of wine, oil and fruit and vegetables of Feria de Zaragoza close with almost 27,000 visitors
The agri-food salons ENOMAQ, TECNOVID, OLEOMAQ, OLEOTEC and FRUYVER closed their last edition, last February 17th, with an important influx of professionals, more than 26,800, a fact that consolidates Feria de Zaragoza, organizer of these events, as a reference of the wine, oil and fruits and vegetables sectors.
The salons of wine, oil and fruits and vegetables start with good forecasts
The exhibiting firms present at the international wine, oil and fruit and vegetable lounges (ENOMAQ, TECNOVID, OLEOMAQ, OLEOTEC and FRUYVER), which are held at the Zaragoza fairgrounds, concur that the sector shows signs of recovery. Visitors from all over the world have found, at Feria de Zaragoza, the biggest technological offer in the wine, olive and horticultural industry, consolidating itself as the most innovative edition of these events.
The harvest in Castilla-La Mancha yields 23.3 million hectoliters of wine and must
The harvesting campaign in Castilla-La Mancha has resulted in a production that exceeds 23 million hectoliters of wine and must, according to data from INFOVI (Market Information System of the Wine Sector), released in the course of The Sectorial Wine Commission that Agro-Alimentary Cooperatives Castilla-La Mancha held today, December 14th, in Alcazar de San Juan Ciudad Real.
About € 73 million for restructuring and conversion of the vineyard in 2017
The Sectoral Conference on Agriculture and Rural Development, chaired by Minister Isabel García Tejerina on December 5th, has distributed 72.5 million euros among the Autonomous Communities for the restructuring and conversion of the vineyard in 2017
COAG Murcia, against the great wineries for ruining the price of grapes
COAG Murcia has lambasted the pricing policy being made in their region by the largest wine groups, considering that doesn't value the work of farmers, whose grapes are bought well below their production costs. The agricultural organization denounces this practice through large wineries come to mark their low prices for the rest of the sector, as happened last season, which was paid by the Monastrell grape of this region € 0.23 /Kilo.
A short campaign in stocks of must and wine
The 2015/2016 campaign ends with stocks of must and wine below the average of the last four seasons. Specifically, 30.5 million hectoliters, of which 29,16 million are wine and 1.34 million grape juice unconcentrated. This will facilitate the onset and course of the new campaign, while it shows the dynamism of the market, particularly as regards exports.