Visit of socialist MEPs to Almeria and Granada

The next days 19th, 20th and 21th October, a delegation of Socialist MEPs will visit the provinces of Almeria and Granada to know ‘in situ’ production models of agriculture in southern Europe.

This business trip will be organized according to the following program:

Oct. 19

4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Meeting with members of the Interprofessional Organizations HORTYFRUTA and HORTIESPAÑA.

18.00. – 19.00 p.m. Visit the CLISOL SHOWING QUALITY farm with tasting greenhouse products. Paraje La Cumbre, s/n. Tierras de Almería – 04700 El Ejido. Clisol Agro is a company dedicated to agrotourism greenhouse, dedicated to the dissemination of the peculiarities of the production system under the plastic in Almería, where the production techniques of Almeria horticultural model greenhouse, responsible and sustainable with the environment will be shown.

Oct. 20

9:30 a.m. Visit the greenhouses of organic cherry tomato BIOSABOR S.A.T. Retamar (Almeria). Locator estate: 36 ° 52’09.6 “N 2 ° 18’36.8” W.

10.30 a.m. Visit BIOSABOR facilities S.A.T. Ctra. San Jose, Km 2 04117 San Isidro (Nijar). BIOSABOR S.A.T is a company with extensive experience in ecological, innovative and sustainable horticulture, which has more than 200 ha. own. Its facilities, inaugurated in December 2015, are designed and built with careful design and the latest technological innovations designed to maximize yield, taking care above all the welfare of its staff.

12:00 a.m. Visit “Irrigation Community Nijar“. Ctra. San Jose Km. 3.2 San Isidro (Nijar). The Community Water Users of the District of Nijar (CuCN) was established in 1999, and is considered as an example of functioning and financing. It has more than 2.300 farmers and irrigate an area of 8.500 hectares around its area of influence.

4:00 p.m. Meeting with provincial and regional representative organizations in the fruit and vegetable sector. Location: Government Delegation of the Junta de Andalucia. Paseo de Almería

5:00 p.m. Press Conference – Balance of the visit. Government Delegation headquarters

Oct. 21

8.30 a.m. Visit the company AGROBIO S.L. Ctra. Nacional 340 Km 419. El Viso – La Mojonera. AGROBIO is a biofactory, produces beneficial insects for pest control; and bumblebees for natural pollination. Founded in 1995 in Almería, it pioneered the production of bumblebees in Spain, and is now a leader in biological control techniques.

10.30 a.m. Visit to the facilities of the Cooperative hortofrutícola GRANADA LA PALMA S.C.A. N-340, Km 342,000, 18730 Carchuna, Motril (Granada). Granada La Palma, founded in 1973, is the 10th largest fruit and vegetable producer-exporter of Spain and the largest producer and marketer of cherry tomatoes and tomatoes specialty in the world. Today, it has 641 partners and farmers and a
production area of 854 hectares (this acreage represents 25% of the wintering area of the province of Granada).

12:00 p.m. Meeting at the CDT Motril Granada with representatives of the agricultural sector and
the agrarian Municipal Council. Attending: the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries of the Junta de Andalucía, Carmen Ortiz, the mayor of Motril, Flor Almon, President of the Port Authority of Motril, Francisco Alvarez de la Chica, and the president of the Association of Municipalities of the Costa Tropical, Sergio Garcia Alabarce.