Luis Planas, new minister of Agriculture
Luis Planas, ex-councilor of the Junta de Andalucía in two stages under the presidencies of Manuel Chaves and José Antonio Griñán, and former ambassador in Morocco and before the European Union, will be Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries in the Government of Pedro Sánchez, sources have confirmed. environment of the chief executive.
Cooperativas Agro-Alimentarias affirms that the new CAP hinders the single market
Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias de España sees in the new national strategic plans for the application of the CAP a clear risk of renationalisation and an obstacle to the proper functioning of the single market. Nor does it see as good news that the Commission has once again avoided making market management proposals to alleviate price volatility and serious crises. However, there are good instruments, such as the possibility of extending the system of operational programs similar to those of fruits and vegetables to other sectors. However, the uncertainty and probable budget reduction will greatly limit its implementation.
Carlos Cabanas affirms that in the 2018 budgets the maximum efficiency of the available resources has been sought
The Secretary General of Agriculture and Food, Carlos Cabanas, has appeared today in the Committee on Budgets of the Senate, where he said that in the distribution of the budget of the General Secretariat for 2018, amounting to 7,463 million euros, with an increase of 1.39% with respect to the previous year, maximum efficiency has been sought in the application of the available funds.
Six countries sign a common Ministerial Declaration against cuts in the CAP
The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment, Isabel García Tejerina, met today, at the headquarters of the Department, with the Ministers of Agriculture of France, Stéphane Travert, of Portugal, Luis Capoulas, of Ireland, Michael Creed, the Secretary of State of Finland, Jari Partanen and the Secretary of Agriculture of Greece, Charalampos Kasimis, to agree a common declaration in defense of an adequate financing of the PAC.
UPA presents to the Ministry its project to adapt the agricultural sector to climate change
Climate change is the main challenge facing the agricultural sector today. In the agrarian organization UPA are aware of this and that is why they are focusing all their efforts on helping farmers and ranchers to adapt their farms to this new situation and thus reduce their impact on the sector. These efforts are being channeled into a macroproject called InfoAdaptaAgri that will be presented to the Minister of Agriculture, Isabel García Tejerina, on June 6th. The act will be open to all interested persons, it is simply necessary to send an inscription in advance.
Afrucat asks to expand from 30 to 40Mkg the withdrawal quota to recover prices in stone fruit
Afrucat a little important in the harvest of fruit due to the weather and the low fruit set The director general of Afrucat, Manel Simón, and the general director of Food, Quality and Agrifood Industries of the Department of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food (DARP) , Carmel Mòdol, together with the director of the Territorial Services of the DARP to Lleida, Ferran de Noguera, have presented the forecasts of harvest of peach and nectarine for Catalonia that indicate an overall decrease of 17% standing at 471,430 tons.
Irrigators reclamate a new National Hydrological Plan
In a context of climate change, where the availability of water is becoming less, the more than one million farmers who have an appointment at the XIV edition of the National Congress of Irrigating Communities concluded that this resource is a matter of State and therefore , to demand an integrating and long-term political action, which has as objective a new National Hydrological Plan able to guarantee the demand of the users.
The Ministry calls for aid aimed at improving the production and marketing of apicultural products
The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development has opened the call to apply for aid to improve the production and marketing of bee products for this year. The initial budget for this campaign amounts to 2.37 million euros, pending the final allocation that will be approved by Sectorial Conference.
Fruit Attraction foresees a 16% growth in its 10th anniversary, surpassing the 1,600 companies
The International Fair of the Fruit and Vegetable Sector, Fruit Attraction, organized by IFEMA and FEPEX, will be held in its 10th edition for the first time from Tuesday 23 to Thursday 25 October 2018 at the Feria de Madrid. According to the estimates made after the first meeting of election of spaces by the Organizing and Advisory Committee, the surface has grown 10% in relation to the same period of the last call, exceeding 45,000 square meters, and with a forecast of total increase of the 16%
The Ministry of Agriculture registers more than 238,000 applications for aid from the CAP for the 2018 campaign
e Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development has registered 238,301 applications for aid from the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the 2018 campaign, as reported by the Minister Rodrigo Sánchez Haro at a press conference in Seville, which, in addition, has presented the mobile application of the InfoPAC Board "so that the beneficiaries can be better informed about the processing of the aid".