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    • Diego Calderón, new deputy director of Unica Group

    Unica Group has recently appointed deputy director Diego Calderón who, until the date of this new appointment, was Director of Business Development and Innovation, since November 2015.

    EuroChem Agro celebrates the First Day of Intensive Crops, focused on the techniques of citrus fertilization

    Eurochem Agro Iberia held in Benicarló the First Intensive Crops Day, under the title "Technical Conference on Citrus Fertilization, which has had the assistance of technicians and agricultural professionals from Andalusia, Murcia and Valencia. The main objective of this initiative has been to share knowledge and carry out demonstrations of management and application of fertilizers with ENTEC® technology.

    The turnover of Granada la Palma increases by 10%, with more than € 153M

    The cooperative Granada la Palma, leader in Europe in the production of cherry tomatoes, has experienced during the previous campaign a growth of 10.21% in its global turnover, exceeding 153 million. These data were made known during the course of its annual Assembly, in which farmers were informed of the productive and economic activity of the company during the last campaign 2016/17, with a balance of very positive results, reaching a production record of 75,000 tons of fruits and vegetables of high quality, diversity and differentiated taste.

    AESAN and MERCAMADRID inaugurated the Professional Conference “5 a day”, highlighting the importance of spreading and promoting the consumption of fruits and vegetables

    The Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition, AECOSAN showed its support to the Association "5 a day", inaugurating its X Professional Conference, together with Mercamadrid. This event, which was held in the auditorium of the Mercamadrid Administrative Center, brought together distribution companies, wholesalers and producers of the fruit and vegetable sector.

    Daymsa collaborates in the IFAPA Las Cítricos Technical Citrus Workshops, which reaped a resounding success

    Daymsa, a company specializing in biocontrol and biostimulants for agriculture, participated, on March 8, at the Citrus Technical Conference, held at the IFAPA center "Las Torres-Tomejil", in the Seville town of Alcalá del Río.

    UNIQ, successful ally in the Profesional Day of 5day

    The UNIQ seal of quality for corrugated cardboard packaging, strategic pillar of the horticultural sector, has sponsored the Professional Day of 5day, held on 6th and 7th March, at the Mercamadrid Administrative Center, sponsor of the Day.

    UPA, dissatisfied with the Plan of measures to alleviate the crisis of the stone fruit

    In its assessment of the Plan recently presented by MAPAMA to tackle the structural crisis affecting the stone fruit sector, the Union of Small Farmers (UPA) has expressed its dissatisfaction with a measure that, although necessary, qualifies as insufficient "and" a disappointment ". UPA has indicated that the Plan "forgets small family farms and requires a larger budget.
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    Spain: MAPAMA presents to the sweet fruit sector a plan that provides up to € 80M in credit lines

    The general director of Productions and Agricultural Markets, Fernando Miranda, has recently presented the Measures Plan for the improvement of the sector of the Sweet Fruit to the Representative Agrarian Professional Organizations of the national scope, Cooperatives Agroalimentarias and FEPEX. The short-term initiatives include the start-up of a financing line of up to 80 million euros in loans, as well as fiscal adjustment measures. Said Plan includes 14 measures grouped into 4 large blocks: Liquidity injection; Supply-demand rebalancing; Sector organization, and Information. Measures that provide for the modification of national regulations on the sector, facilitating the adaptation of operational programs to the current situation of the same. Likewise, the Ministry has committed itself to the sector to facilitate the development of its initiatives in the matter of constitution of Associations of Professional Organizations, proposal of approved contracts or constitution of an Interprofessional Agroalimentaria.

    ASPROCAN estimates that damages caused by the storm in Canarian banana plantations could affect some 9,000 plots

    The Association of Organizations of Producers of Banana of the Canary Islands (ASPROCAN) has made a first assessment of the damage caused to banana plantations of the Islands by the storm of recent weeks, which has brought winds of over 109 km / h and rain They have discharged up to 40 liters of water per square meter. Thus, in the absence of registering in the coming weeks the exact amounts, so far about 3,000 farms have reported claims and more than 7,300 plots have been affected, although the forecast is to reach up to 4,000 farms and 9,000 plots. In some areas of the western islands, estimated losses are around 30% of production.

    AVA-ASAJA calls for greater commitment from public authorities with innovation, during Hogan’s visit to his experimental farm

    The Valencian Association of Farmers (AVA-ASAJA) has called for greater commitment of public authorities with innovation, key to the future of the agricultural sector, during the visit of the European Commissioner for Agriculture, Phil Hogan, to Sinyent, his farm of trials and agricultural experimentation. During the tour Hogan was accompanied, in addition to the dome of AVA-ASAJA, by the president of the European People's Group, Manfred Weber, by the spokesman of the PP in the EU Parliament, Esteban González Pons, by the president of the PPCV, Isabel Bonig, and by a large group of popular MEPs.