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    • The MAPAMA will publish in April a Manual of Shared Ownership of Farms

    The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment (MAPAMA) plans to publish a Manual of Shared Ownership of Farms in April, as was advanced in the second meeting of the working group on Shared Ownership, held on March 21st. With the participation of representatives of the autonomous communities, in this meeting the works carried out for this purpose were exposed. The guide includes an analysis by autonomous communities, a description of the process of registration in shared ownership and a block of frequently asked questions. It is aimed both at people interested in knowing the requirements necessary to register in a shared ownership, as well as at the managers and administrations involved in the process.

    Historical record of the Spanish agro-alimentary exports, surpassing in value the 50.000M€

    The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment has published the Advance of the Annual Foreign Trade Report 2017, in which it is noted that Spanish exports during the past year have broken a historical record when exceeding in value, for the first time, 50,000 million euros.

    Spain: Almazaras de la Subbética S.C.A., Special Food Award of Spain Best EVOOs

    The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment has awarded the "Best Spanish Foods Extra Virgin Olive Oil Award, 2017-2018 campaign", in its modalities "Frutado Verde Amargo", "Frutado Verde Dulce" and "Frutado Maduro" " Some awards to revalue the highest quality Spanish virgin olive oils, and encourage producers to develop and market these oils. In this edition, the oil that has received the highest organoleptic score, in the blind tasting conducted by the Heads of the different Official Tasting Panels, has been the one presented by the S.C.A. Almazaras de la Subbética, from Carcabuey (Córdoba), which earned the Special Food Award of Spain.

    The last edition of the WOOE managed to bring together about 4,000 professionals linked to the olive sector

    The largest exclusive international fair for olive oil, the World Olive Oil Exhibition (WOOE) has closed its seventh edition with an attendance of nearly 700 production companies and almost 4,000 professionals from the olive sector, HORECA, catering, distributors, buyers, brokers and media of more than 30 nationalities (United Arab Emirates, Japan, China, United Kingdom, Italy or USA). Business, new business opportunities, debate, trends, innovation and networking have been the keys to the success of the WOOE.

    Special Riego: “without water there are no irrigation, and without irrigation there is no food”

    Report on the importance for the future of agriculture of a good water infrastructure and the development of increasingly efficient and sustainable irrigation systems, which ECA publishes today, March 22, World Water Day.

    The aid to the associative Integration, endowed with 1.75M €

    The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment has published on Saturday March 17th, in the Official State Gazette (BOE), an excerpt from the order of March 8th, 2018, which calls for aid for the promotion of the integration of agrifood associative entities of supraautonomic scope, for the year 2018. These aids are part of the set of measures included in the State Plan of Associative Integration 2015-2020, approved in the Sectoral Conference on Agriculture and Rural Development of April 16th of 2015 and will be endowed, for the year 2018, with a budget of 1,750,000 euros.

    The latest news and data in the new period of CAP aid

    The Council of Ministers has approved a Royal Decree modifying the current regulations on the application of direct payments to agriculture and livestock and other aid schemes, as well as on the management and control of direct payments and payments to rural development. The changes came into effect on January 1st and will apply the aid application campaign that will last in principle until April 30th, although, given the background of previous years, insurance will be extended. This amendment incorporates into the Spanish legal system the changes introduced by the so-called "Omnibus" Regulation in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

    García Tejerina pays homage to the murdered rancher, José Luis Iranzo

    The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment, Isabel García Tejerina, has closed the act of homage to the COAG breeder, José Luís Iranzo, where he has expressed the respect and recognition of the entire Government towards Iranzo and the two Civil Guards, Víctor Romero and Víctor Jesús Caballero, murdered three months ago in Teruel.

    UPA, dissatisfied with the Plan of measures to alleviate the crisis of the stone fruit

    In its assessment of the Plan recently presented by MAPAMA to tackle the structural crisis affecting the stone fruit sector, the Union of Small Farmers (UPA) has expressed its dissatisfaction with a measure that, although necessary, qualifies as insufficient "and" a disappointment ". UPA has indicated that the Plan "forgets small family farms and requires a larger budget.
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    Spain: MAPAMA presents to the sweet fruit sector a plan that provides up to € 80M in credit lines

    The general director of Productions and Agricultural Markets, Fernando Miranda, has recently presented the Measures Plan for the improvement of the sector of the Sweet Fruit to the Representative Agrarian Professional Organizations of the national scope, Cooperatives Agroalimentarias and FEPEX. The short-term initiatives include the start-up of a financing line of up to 80 million euros in loans, as well as fiscal adjustment measures. Said Plan includes 14 measures grouped into 4 large blocks: Liquidity injection; Supply-demand rebalancing; Sector organization, and Information. Measures that provide for the modification of national regulations on the sector, facilitating the adaptation of operational programs to the current situation of the same. Likewise, the Ministry has committed itself to the sector to facilitate the development of its initiatives in the matter of constitution of Associations of Professional Organizations, proposal of approved contracts or constitution of an Interprofessional Agroalimentaria.