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    • Ley de la Cadena Alimentaria

    Consumption and new trends in the distribution of fruits and vegetables

    The distribution sector in Spain is very different from what happens in the rest of the European Union where large chains control over 90% of agri-food. Aldi, Socomo (subsidiary purchases of fruit and vegetables Carrefour), Lidl, Auchan-Alcampo, Edeka in Germany and Tesco in the United Kingdom are some of the owners of the distribution of the fresh in Europe, as is Mercadona in Spain, although not in the same proportion because the distribution is much more balanced than in the rest of European markets.

    Agritechnica 2017: BKT inaugurates its multi-subject campaign “A long way together”

    The tire brand BKT has inaugurated in Agritechnica 2017 its new multi-subject campaign "A long way together" ("a long way together"), which gathers the witness of the previous campaign and transmits effectively the essence of the BKT brand in the different sectors of tire employment.

    Massey Ferguson deploys its latest collection at Agritechnica 2017

    The agricultural machinery firm Massey Ferguson has taken advantage of its presence in Agritechnica 2017 to make known some of its new products. Thus, while its new portfolio is consolidating, each and every one of the machines that have been presented at the Massey Ferguson stand at Agritechnica are completely new, from tractors to harvesters, packers, forage and telescopic machinery.

    EU: Member States support the new standards for organic farming

    The European Commission has assessed as a decisive step the support that Member States have expressed on November 20th, for the approval of new standards for organic farming, which would establish a simplified legal framework that would cover all producers, since be from the EU or from third countries exporting to the EU.

    Spain: Tejerina highlights the advances of the wine sector in competitiveness and sustainability

    The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment, Isabel García Tejerina has highlighted the progress made by the Spanish wine sector, "which today is more competitive, transparent and sustainable." García Tejerina, who made these statements during the presentation, on November 14th, of the Promotion Campaign "Marida mejor tu vida con vino", by the Spanish Wine Interprofessional (OIVE), has also highlighted the world leadership of our country in planted area of vineyard.

    Spain: hydrographic confederations coordinate to anticipate possible drought scenarios

    The drought has focused a coordination meeting between the different Hydrographic Confederations, chaired by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment, Isabel García Tejerina and held at MAPAMA headquarters. The meeting has served to take stock of all the measures adopted since 2015, when the drought situation in the Júcar and Segura basins was decreed; to assess the application of the drought plans in all the basins; and analyze the answers to the possible scenarios, which allow serving the population in all of them.

    García Tejerina advances that MAPAMA will lead a Working Group on Digital Transformation in Agriculture

    The Minister Isabel García Tejerina has advanced that MAPAMA will lead a Working Group on Digitization and Big Data in agriculture, in the course of its intervention in the II Forum on Digital Transformation and Big Data in Agriculture, which was held on the 8th November in Madrid and has gathered more than 400 attendees. As reported by the minister, the purpose of this initiative is to address the needs of the sector and the rural environment to meet the technical, economic, training and legislative challenges of the digital transformation.

    Spain: the Government appeals before the Court of Justice of the EU the fine for pastures to Andalusia

    As recently reported, in the Congress of Deputies, the Secretary General of Agriculture and Food, Carlos Cabanas, the Government of Spain has filed a complaint with the Court of Justice of the European Union, to try to reduce or cancel the fine imposed by the European Commission to Andalusia, for the financial correction derived from the problems in the admissibility of pasture lands in European agricultural aid between 2009 and 2013. A claim based on the disproportionality of the sanction.

    Agritechnica 2017 faces Agriculture 4.0 from a global perspective

    It is not only about reducing emissions, the path of digitalization towards agriculture 4.0 (two steps beyond the "precision farming" and that the "Smart farming") goes towards a more global approach, which seeks the reduction of the footprint of carbon.

    UPA urges the Government to take urgent measures against a “historic” drought

    The Union of Small Farmers (UPA) has urged the Government of Spain to adopt urgent measures against a drought that qualifies as "historic". The shortage of rains since last autumn has led our country to an emergency situation that however, as denounced by the UPA agrarian organization, is "ignored" by the Government. Farmers and ranchers say they feel "abandoned and surprised" in the absence of a management plan for a crisis of great gravity.