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    • Jeffrey Shaw: “Spain has to develop its image as a source of quality olive oil”

    The United States is one of the extra-community markets that offers greater opportunities to Spanish agri-food exports. Issues such as the impetus in recent years to import Spanish agri-food products in this country, or the importance of developing a brand image and adding value (among the many challenges that our companies face to compete in this demanding market), are addressed in this interview that ECA performs Jeffrey Shaw, Head of the Food Department of the Economic and Commercial Office, attached to the Spanish Embassy in New York.

    Asaja and McDonald’s collaborate to promote local productions of young producers

    The ASAJA agrarian organization and McDonald's collaborate to promote local productions of young farmers and ranchers through the first edition of the "Campo Innova" Program, recently presented. This initiative represents a step forward in McDonald's company's long-term commitment to the Spanish primary sector and its commitment to locally sourced products. Those interested can submit their applications until February 10th, 2017, inclusive, through the platform www.campoinnova.com

    Asaja Murcia demands that the Government focus efforts to reopen the Russian market

    The professional agricultural organization ASAJA Murcia demands the Government of Spain to work with intensity, from the highest levels, to achieve an end to the Russian veto of EU products and to recover a market "fundamental for the fruit and vegetable sector".

    Good prospects of quality and price in the final stage of the olive campaign

    Olive harvest forecasts in the final stretch of the campaign are optimistic, with a value-for-money ratio that the Coordinadora de Organizaciones de Agricultores y Ganaderos (COAG) calls "balanced and sustainable".

    World Olive Oil Exhibition 2017, endorsed as an international fair

    The World Olive Oil Exhibition (WOOE), International Meeting of Olive Oil to be held on 29th and 30th March in Ifema (Madrid) has just been recognized as an international fair by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness. This official endorsement recognizes the merits of the WOOE, an event totally oriented to the international business that for six years is celebrated in Madrid and that faces the final straight of its most ambitious edition.
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    Expoliva has been consolidated as only fair with international recognition of Andalusia

    Expoliva 2017 is consolidated, in the year of its 20º anniversary, as the only international fair in Andalusia to have obtained for the eleventh year this recognition, as highlighted by the president of the Board of Administration of Fair Jaén (Ifeja), Angel Vera.

    Peru: Peru: banana exports surpass record of 128 million dollars

    The value of Peruvian banana exports between January and October 2016 reached 128.8 million dollars, an increase of 7% over the same period of 2015 and is a record, being the highest figure registered in the mentioned period during the last five years, according to data of the Association of Exporters (ADEX). As pointed out by the Association, the growing demand for the main markets of the Peruvian banana and the increase of cultivated hectares in the north explains this significant increase.
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    Argentina: Government encourages the production of food with certified quality

    In order to boost the production of food with certified quality and facilitate companies to generate added value, the Ministry of Agroindustry of Argentina has launched the National Program for Promotion of Official Certificates of Quality in Argentine Food "Add Value". An initiative designed to encourage micro, small and medium enterprises producing and/or producing food and/or beverages, with funding reaching up to 200,000 pesos.

    Peru hosts in March the VI World Congress of Quinoa

    Peru, a world power in quinoa production will host the 6th World Congress to be held around this product, from 21 to 24 March. With this event, the Andean country consolidates its leadership in this millennial crop, originating from the incanate and that is called to play a primordial role in feeding the future.

    UPA and COAG highlight 2016 as year of high production but low agricultural prices

    In its usual year-end balance sheet, the agricultural organizations COAG and UPA have agreed to value 2016 as a year that has been characterized by a significant increase in production (which has grown in value to € 46.487 billion), as opposed to agricultural prices, which have been experiencing a general fall that COAG estimates at 4% and which, according to UPA, is the main cause, together with the inaction and lack of support from the political institutions, the coming economic choke suffering from food producers in Spain.