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    • 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.

    FEPEX estimates that the export of fresh fruits and vegetables in 2016 will exceed 12,300M€

    The Spanish Federation of Associations of Producers Exporters of Fruits and Vegetables (FEPEX) estimates that the value of exports of fresh fruit and vegetables in 2016 will experience a growth of over 12.3 billion euros. It is also expected that this year will close with volumes similar to those of 2015, which came to an all-time high of 12.7 million tonnes exported.

    The Protocol of Ecuador’s Accession to the Trade Agreement with the EU, effective as of January 1st, 2017

    Ecuador will start 2o17 with the entry into force of its Protocol of Accession to the Multiparty Trade Agreement with the EU that, on 20th December, ratified its National Assembly. A bilateral treaty that will open the door to a market of 514 million people, in 28 European countries, from January 1st next year.