The Valencian ecological sector grows more in the first half of 2019 than in 2018
If 2018 closed with 114.509 certified hectares, 18.6% more than in 2017, in the first semester of 2019, the area has already exceeded everything that was certified last year and the three provinces have 143.404 hectares certified, 28.895 hectares more than last year, or what is the same, 25.2% more, according to yesterday the Committee of Organic Agriculture of the Valencian Community (CAECV).
The hail damages 100,000 hectares while the water reserve falls
Unas 100.000 hectáreas de cultivos han sido dañadas por el pedrisco en sólo dos días, viéndose muy afectada entre otros, la cereza del Jerte. El episodio de tormentas remite y la reserva de agua embalsada sigue bajando.
Organic avocado all year, with only two origins
This company located in the Veléz - Málaga (Málaga), supplies the market with ecological tropical products, mainly mango and avocado.
Organic farming demands a transversal vision of its activity
Mª Teresa Cháfer Nácher, General Director of Rural Development and PAC of the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development, Climate Emergency and Ecological Transition of the Generalitat Valenciana has inaugurated the Tertulia #BusinessAGRO Marketing and Profitability of Ecological Agriculture.
“We are starting the grape campaign with new varieties”
“We have just finished a good off-season campaign, with sales up by more than 20% and good overall results. Now we are fully switching to the domestic grapes harvested in our earliest plots,” says Miriam Cutillas, of the sales and marketing department of Uvasdoce.
The CGC affirms that the EU-Mercosur agreement leaves citrus fruits unprotected
The CGC regrets the opacity with which the treaty has been negotiated and warns that tariff disarmament leaves the Brazilian Spanish supply of naran-ja juice unprotected against the Brazilian cheap supply, a key to the fresh market by absorbing 14 to 20% of the citrus production every year.
Carlet hosts the Tertulia #BusinessAGRO on Commercialization and Ecological Profitability
The meeting will take place on July 3, in Carlet (Valencia), where experts in production, marketing, supplies, public administrations and private entities will show us the main guidelines to achieve a profitable organic production adapted to the new demands of the consumers.
Main challenges of the berries of Mexico
The V International Congress of Red Fruits recently held in Huelva, served as a scenario for the Engineer Juan José Flores, General Director of the Association of Producers and Exporters of Berries of Mexico (ANEBERRIES), has analyzed the reality and the challenges of the berries Mexican companies, both at the production level and in the field of marketing.
Planasa opens a new strawberry and raspberry plant nursery in Mexico
Planasa has recently inaugurated the farm ‘El Esfuerzo’ in Dolores Hidalgo, Mexico, a new strawberry and raspberry plant nursery that will create 800 direct jobs in this area.
Peruvian export of blueberries will grow a 60.2% during 2019
A study by the consulting firm Maximixe revealed that during this year the export of blueberries would grow by 60.2%, reaching US $ 885 million. This will be due to higher shipments to the markets of the United States, the Netherlands and China.