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    • 98% of applicants already benefit from the CAP 2018

    Direct payments from the CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) will benefit more than 726,000 farmers and ranchers who have submitted their application for aid in the 2018 campaign and whose payments began on October 16.

    The food consumption of Spain increases in 2018

    The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Act, Luis Planas, presented this Monday, at the headquarters of the Ministry, the data of the Report on Food Consumption in Spain 2018, which gives us an overview of the eating behavior of people residents in our country, both inside and outside the home.

    Food waste in Spanish households increased in 2018

    Según los datos recogidos en el Panel de cuantificación del desperdicio alimentario en los hogares, del Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación, los hogares españoles desperdiciaron entre enero y diciembre de 2018 un total de 1.339 millones de kg/l. de alimentos y bebidas, lo que supone un incremento del 8,9% con respecto al año anterior, es decir, 109 millones de kg/l más.

    Innovation and sustainability, key words in the future agrifood

    Innovation as a factor of competitiveness and sustainability have been two of the topics that have centered one of the months of debates held within the framework of the Startup Europe Smart Agrifood Summit, which is being held these days in Malaga.

    Why return to FRUIT LOGISTICA 2020?

    This is the question that many managers and managers of producing and marketing companies worldwide ask themselves, and the answer is clear: almost 86% of the more than 78,000 professional visitors from around the world who attended the last edition of the fair , was directly involved in the supply and distribution of fruits and vegetables.

    The “Innovation Excellence Awards for Rural Women” will include fishing activity

    The Ministry published on Wednesday in the Official Gazette the regulatory bases for the "Excellence in Innovation for rural women" awards, thus incorporating the fishing sector into its recipients,

    More than 326 mill. € for agricultural, livestock, food and rural development programs

    Of these funds, 104.1 million euros are allocated to finance the 2014 - 2020 Rural Development Programs.

    The “green architecture” of the post2020 CAP will offer new opportunities

    The congress "The green architecture of the CAP post 2020. Deepening in eco-schemes", organized by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, has been closed last Friday in Zafra (Badajoz), with the participation of more than 170 participants of 16 Member States.

    The Alliance for the Defense of European Agriculture is created

    EUCOFEL, agreed in Brussels, together with various associations of the community agricultural sector the creation of an Alliance for the Defense of European Agriculture, in order to defend the European production model and that this model is more taken into account in the commercial policy of the EU.

    The Ministry organizes a congress to discuss the CAP post-2020

    The Secretary General of Agriculture and Food, Fernando Miranda,…