The Minister of Agriculture will open this Tuesday MEAT ATTRACTION 2018
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas Puchades, will open this Tuesday, September 18, at 12:00 hours, the second edition of the Meat Sector Fair, MEAT ATTRACTION 2018, jointly organized by IFEMA and the National Association of Industrias de la Carne de España, ANICE, and which will take place from September 18 to 20 of this month, at the Feria de Madrid.
Asia Fruit Logistica, a record edition
ASIA FRUIT LOGISTICA celebrated its tenth edition on September 5th and 7th, reaching a record number of 13,500 professional visitors. The fair was also highlighted by the large Spanish presence, more relevant than in previous occasions, grouping 46 exhibiting companies from different regions.
Fruit Attraction will analyze the walnut sector in Spain at Walnut Attraction
The tenth edition of Fruit Attraction, which will be held from Tuesday 23 to Thursday 25 October in Madrid, will host the Walnut Attraction day organized by the Association of Spanish Nuts Producers, the Association of Fruit and Vegetable Producers and Exporters of Andalucía, Asociafruit, FEPEX and IFEMA, will analyze the reality of the nut industry in Spain and Europe.
Clara Aguilera: “The European Commission confirms aid for the Spanish olive”
A delegation of farmers and ranchers of UPA, headed by its secretary general, Lorenzo Ramos, today transferred to the Minister of Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, the need to take into account the rural world and food producers in the transition towards a circular economy, sustainable, low emissions and does not exclude any of its actors.
Mapama signs collaboration agreements with the Spanish Network for Rural Development and the State Network for Rural Development
The general director of Rural Development, Innovation and Forestry Policy of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Isabel Bombal, has signed two collaboration agreements with the Spanish Network of Rural Development (ReDR) and with the State Network of Rural Development, to support the realization of integral and sustainable rural development activities.
German wine and asparagus arrive in Spain to conquer our palates
GO TO HELL! How many times have you not said or heard that expression? Normally, it is used to remove someone who is bothering from your side. This saying originated in the nineteenth century knowing that this vegetable is cooked with the first boil and to fry it, however, it takes much longer. Germans know little of the Spanish proverb, but they do cook with asparagus since it is one of the pillars of their seasonal cuisine and they are true experts in culinary creation with asparagus. But they go a little further and understand the tasting of this vegetable in perfect marriage with the local wines: to each asparagus their good wine arrives, they would say. Or better yet, tell us what dish with asparagus you like and we tell you which house came better.
Cranberries, one of the five most important Chilean fruit products abroad
The president of the Federation of Fruit Producers of Chile (Fedefruta) Jorge Valenzuela, considers that the national market is going through a "very good moment". And, in his opinion, the demand for the fruit products of the country is showing an unprecedented boom.
The Ministry participates with the FIAB in the International Fair Specialty & Fine Food London 2018
The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food participates, together with the FIAB (Spanish Federation of Food and Beverage Industries), in the Speciality and Fine Food Fair that takes place in London (United Kingdom) from September 2 to 4, with a stand of 130 m2, where 27 companies of the sector are welcomed and the quality and variety of our food is announced.
Andalusia markets around 20,000 tonnes of fish and shellfish in the first six months of 2018
Basic foods go back to the Spanish shopping basket in SeptemberThe 25 Andalusian fish markets have sold 19,364.96 tonnes of fish and shellfish in the first half of 2018 for a value of 66.7 million euros. The average price per kilogram has been placed in the first six months of this year at 3.45 euros, above the 3.03 and 2.84 euros of the same period of the 2017 and 2016 courses, for, from the From the point of view of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development, Rodrigo Sánchez Haro, to compensate, "to a certain extent", the decline in production in a "difficult" context such as that experienced by the extractive sector as a result of the loss of considerable percentages of quotas of species such as hake and horse mackerel after the international negotiations led by the previous Government of Mariano Rajoy or the situation of the sardine fishery, without forgetting the "forced" closure of the fishing ground of the chirla.
Bioviti aims to use biodiversity as a competitive tool for wine growers
The operating group of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food #Bioviti, which aims to use biodiversity as a competitiveness tool for wine growers, has just taken its first steps with a meeting held in Valencia.