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Decco positions itself strongly in Latin America
Latin America is one of the regions where Decco has grown exponentially in recent years. Recently it has inaugurated a new factory in Brazil, and in Chile the growth is being forceful thanks to the expansion of its portfolio. In Mexico, the company already supplies its products to all the main crops, as in Argentina.
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UPA asks Tejerina to defend the beet producers of Montoro’s tax collection
The Union of Small Farmers and Ranchers (UPA) has accused the Ministry of Finance and Public Service of proposing a tax on sugar with a desire to collect and without "minimally analyze" the impact that this tax will on the economy of the primary sector. For that reason, it has asked the Minister of Agriculture, Isabel García Tejerina, to "act with forcefulness" and intercede to defend the interests of the 6,000 beet Spanish producers of this "direct attack" by Minister Montoro.
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UPA warns that CETA will hurt the interests of the European agri-food sector
The Union of Small Farmers and Ranchers (UPA) has warned that the free trade agreement with Canada, recently approved by the European Parliament, will harm the interests of many people and sectors, benefiting only the large multinationals. For this organization, CETA is postulated as a new "unfair agreement" in which European society -and especially the primary sector - "will not make anything clear and will appear new competitors that will hinder their survival".
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Tejerina announces the celebration in Madrid of a conference on the CAP, which will be attended by Phil Hogan
During the opening ceremony of the 5th edition of the "Agraria" fair in Valladolid, on February 8th, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food and Environment, Isabel García Tejerina, announced the celebration in Madrid on 27th and 28th March, a conference on the CAP, which will be attended by EU Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan. In that line, García Tejerina has assured that the Government is already working to "achieve a strong CAP, well endowed economically and adapted to our needs".
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Aguilera calls for a CAP wich solves the deregulation of the European agri-food sector
Socialist MEP and Vice-President of the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee, Clara Aguilera, has called for a reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to end one of the main problems of the European agri-food sector, deregulation, in the course of a day celebrated the 3th of February in the Valencian Association of Farmers (AVA-ASAJA).
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Unpredictable future for plant health in Europe
Carlos Palomar, CEO of AEPLA reflects on this article, written for ECA, on the challenges posed by phytosanitary registration in the EU.
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UPA denounces Aldi for the sale of strawberries under its production costs
The Union of Small Farmers and Ranchers (UPA) is going to report to the supermarket chain Aldi to sabotage the current strawberry campaign through unfair practices such as the illegal sale of strawberries below their cost of production. As they have stated from the organization, "we have caught them underhand. Even now, when the cold wave is pushing up the price of fruit and vegetables, Aldi squeezes the farmers. "
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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.
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Yara encourage active listening to their distributors and customers
Yara has recently celebrated its annual convention, which brought together customers and largest distributors of this group in Spain and Portugal. Based on the need of this Norwegian multinational of relying on the distribution to be closer to the farmer, this event, which took place at the Plaza de las Ventas in Madrid, has served to assess their clients about the development of the previous season, and sharing and define the bases on which will build the next campaign.
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Adama demonstrates the effectiveness of its herbicide and fungicide in Quintanaortuño Country Day (Burgos)
On the occasion of his participation in the field day organized annually by its distributor in Burgos, Terrastar, ADAMA Agriculture Spain has had the opportunity to try, with a practical demonstration to attendees farmers, the good results obtained with the herbicide Trinity® and the fungicide Epopee® in wheat and barley during this campaign.