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    • AOVE Finca La Torre, Spain Food Award in Organic and Conventional Production

    Finca La Torre, SLU, Bobadilla (Malaga) has won the Spain Food Award for Best Extra Virgin Olive Oil Campaign 2015-2016 after getting their AOVE most organoleptic score in the blind tasting conducted by the Official Tasters Panel of Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment (MAGRAMA), where on July 14th the ceremony of the awards, chaired by the Minister, Isabel García Tejerina was held. The same mill also won the award for best oil in the category of organic production.

    Non-producing countries conducive to world consumption of olive oil exceeds 3 million tonnes

    Olive oil is a product whose global consumption is expanding, as evidenced with forecasts for the 2015/2016 campaign, aimed at more than 3 million tons, representing a growth of 6% with respect to the above, according to the International Olive Oil Council (IOOC). Increase reflected mainly in non-producing countries, which exceed 25% of the total compared with 11% representing 15 years ago. The International Fair of Olive Oil (wooe, its acronym in English), which will host IFEMA Madrid on 29th and 30th March 2017, will be the ideal place to promote this excellent news for the sector forum.

    New varieties of melon and watermelon Syngenta, protagonists of a world conference

    The improvement center Syngenta in Torre Pacheco (Murcia), one of the leading R & D company worldwide, has hosted a world conference about melon and watermelon, which have gathered about 300 professionals, producers, technicians and purchasing managers of large retail chains worldwide. The purpose of these Days is to show on the ground the main trends in varieties of melon and watermelon which seek to reconcile smaller sizes and greater flavor with better production and conservation in the field.

    Double appointment for the most important faces of the Spanish countryside

    On Wednesday, June 6th, there was the double date that brings the most relevant Spanish face field annually: the presentation of the Yearbook 2016 of the Union of Small Farmers and Ranchers (UPA) and the delivery of Rural Studies Foundation Awards, attached to that organization.

    Innovation space unprecedented in the field of agrarian organizations european

    "Committed to our land" is the slogan raised by the Valencian Farmers Association (AVA-ASAJA) and the principle underlying its most ambitious project, the Experimental Farm 'Sinyent' in which, through an agreement with the Business Association for Plant Protection (AEPLA), it has been experiencing since its inception in 2011, to produce more and better foods.

    Sheep production starring a discussion forum in Uruguay

    The Uruguayan Wool Secretariat (SUL) will organize the next 1st and 2nd August, at the Radisson Montevideo, the International Seminar on Sheep Production. A discussion forum in which to reflect and exchange information related to sheep production sector in this South American country, addressing its origins, present and future challenges it faces as a representative to keep farming.

    Brazil and Paraguay export good agricultural practices and the latest technology against desertification

    The NGO Practical Action has organized, with the support of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), through the Integral Project Water Management in Family Agriculture (GIAAF), the virtual course "Best practices and technological innovations in planting and water harvesting ". Its purpose, disseminate successful experiences of Brazil and Paraguay on the management of soil, water and vegetation cover as a way to mitigate the effects of drought and combat desertification.

    Andres Iniesta, Candido Mendez and Catalina Garcia, awards “Rural Pride” 2016

    The Rural Studies Foundation, established within the Union of Small Farmers (UPA), will deliver on 6th July in Madrid the awards which grants every year to individuals or institutions who have excelled for their support to the rural world. This year, the awards in the category "Orgullo Rural", have been given to the footballer Andrés Iniesta, union leader Cándido Méndez, and the president of rural women Fademur Extremadura, Catalina García.

    The EC will propose the Andalusian Observatory of prices as ‘Feader draft Best Practices’

    European officials will propose to include the Andalusian Observatory of Prices in the list of projects 'Feader Best Practices', for the contribution of this web platform to market transparency. This decision was communicated during the meeting held recently by the Secretary General of Agriculture and Food of the Government of Andalusia, Rafael Peral, with a Community delegation, headed by the director of the Monitoring Unit of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) of Spain and Portugal, Efthimios Bokias.

    China verifies protocol agreement for export plum and peach from Murcia

    Carmen Teodora Morales, General Director of Agriculture, Fisheries and Aquaculture of the Ministry of Water, Agriculture and Environment (CAAMA) of Murcia, has met with a delegation of officials from the People's Republic of China who has visited the region to verify compliance of the agreement for the start of peach and plum exports to this country.