agricultural sector

SIETE Agromarketing reaffirms with its Mujer Agro project its commitment to equal opportunities in the agri-food sector

From SIETE Agromarketing, this March 8th, Women’s Day, we want to share our commitment to gender equality with the Women Agro project: in June 2018 we celebrated in Toledo the II National Forum of Agro-Professional Women, under the motto: “the equality is a task of Tod @ s. ” We want to rescue the importance of women who occupy positions, positions and who, at the same time, are entrepreneurs, cooperatives and entrepreneurs in the agri-food sector. They are underrepresented in the political and economic decision-making spaces, where the majority representation tends to be masculine. That is why it is important to raise awareness of the inequality that still exists between men and women.

SIETE Agromarketing launches the digital edition of its magazine ECA AGRI

The digital edition of the semiannual journal ECA AGRI, edited by SIETE Agromarketing and e-Comercio Agrario, is already available to you. Here you will find the most relevant information of the agricultural and agricultural machinery sector: the analysis of the market of agricultural machinery in Spain, the latest developments in favor of greater sustainability and environmental respect or the reform of the CAP, are some of the the topics developed in this complete publication, through articles of opinion and full-time reports and interviews with some of the most prominent figures in the sector. There is also no lack of information related to the main companies and events. Do not miss it!

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EU: the Spanish field breathes, after authorizing the Commission the use of glyphosate for five more years

The Spanish countryside breathes easy, after meeting on November 28th the decision of the European Commission to finally authorize, for five more years, the use of the glyphosate herbicide. Gone are two years of negotiations and extensions that has had our agricultural sector in suspense, since, Spain would have been the country that would have been harmed the most, if the pressures for its prohibition have prospered, as it is assured from the agrarian union UPA. For its part, the ALAS alliance, which integrates UPA and ASAJA, Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias de España, FEPEX, and the Spanish Association of Conservation Agriculture / Living Soils, appreciates that the official scientific agencies of the EU have been heard. endorse the use of this product, although it regrets that the renewal has not been for the fifteen years allowed by the regulations.

Practical Keys to Doing Business in the United States

The Cajamar Cooperative Group participated on June 27th, along with other entities and entrepreneurs specialized in the foreign sector, in the first edition of businessexterior.com, in which the journalist Silvia Intxaurrondo, conducts this meeting to offer the practical keys to those companies that want to do business in the United States.

ANSEMAT participates in a project to promote the use of intelligent agriculture technologies

The National Association of Agricultural, Forestry and Green Space Machinery (ANSEMAT) participates together with four European partners (the Agricultural University of Athens (Greece), Mad About Pandas (Germany), Inosens (Serbia) and Innovative Initiatives (Spain)) in the European innovation project GATES, acronym of “Applying GAming TEchnologies for training professionals in Smart Farming”.

Do not miss the video of the I National Forum on Agroprofessional Women, of SIETE Agromarketing

SIETE Agromarketing has just launched the video about the 1st National Business Forum Agro ‘Mujeres Agroprofesionales. For Equal Opportunities’, held on June 7th in Seville. An audiovisual summary that shows the most important moments of an event, which had an excellent reception of public and a great repercussion in RR.SS., becoming trending topic in the city of Seville and number 51 in the whole country.

Achieving greater prominence, the main challenge for women in the agri-food sector

The importance of achieving a greater share of representativeness and protagonism is evidenced as the main challenge that still has to face the woman within the agri-food sector. A collective that constitutes a fundamental pillar for the development and future of the agri-food activity, as it has been revealed in the 1st National Business Forum Agro Women Agroprofessional. For Equal Opportunities’. This event has been organized by SIETE Agromarketing and e-Commerce Agrario on June 7th with the institutional collaboration of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development (CAPDER) of the Regional Government of Andalusia , The Andalusian Institute for Women, as well as the Caja Rural del Sur Foundation.

Agriculture will track the Equal Opportunities Plan to monitor its effectiveness

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development of the Andalusian Government, Carmen Ortiz, has announced that her department will follow up on the first ‘Equality Plan for Women and Men in Andalusia Horizon 2020’, to know the impact of the measures contemplated in this document, conceived as “a living instrument with an open format of continuous revision”. Ortiz explained that soon a commission will be set up to carry out this work and that in 2018 an interim report will be carried out in order to “test the results and effectiveness of the actions” implemented so far by the CAPDER.

Register without fail to the 1st National Business Forum Agro ‘Agroprofesional Women. For Equal Opportunities’

Do not miss the opportunity to join the First National Business Forum Agro ‘Agroprofesional Women. For Equal Opportunities, to be held next June 7th in Seville, organized by SIETE Agromarketing and e-Comercio Agrario (ECA). Its objective is to create a space for debate where women and men can give visibility to the work developed by women. In this way, more than 200 participants, among executives, professionals, and entrepreneurs of the entire agro-food chain, will share an intense day of conversations, experiences, motivations and aspirations, with the sole purpose of promoting a space for dialogue and networking, Talks, dynamic and innovative gatherings and interviews ‘tu a tu’. Women’s leadership as a tool for equal opportunities and representation in the agro-food sector, entrepreneurship and innovation will be the axes around which this meeting will take place.

FADEMUR reduces carbon footprint in food thanks to the Redmur program

The Federation of Rural Women’s Associations (FADEMUR) has been promoting the reduction of the carbon footprint in food, through the program “Redmur: Network of entrepreneurship and socio-labor insertion for the diversification of sustainable activities in the rural environment”, in Which involved artisans and entrepreneurs from Galicia, Extremadura, Castilla y León, Castilla-La Mancha, Madrid and the Valencian Community. A work that has materialized in the realization of the detailed study of carbon footprint of sugarless and ecological chestnut jam, one of the star products of the artisan company Caurelor, based in Quiroga (Lugo).

Banco Sabadell offers La Mancha’s agro-food cooperatives a financing line for projects in its sector

Banco Sabadell and Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias Castilla-La Mancha have signed a collaboration agreement, in force since April 7th, whereby the bank makes available to the organization a catalog of products and services to support its financial needs. In that catalog, there is a line of financing that Banco Sabadell has agreed with the European Investment Bank (EIB) to promote the development of projects carried out by companies and self-employed in the agro-food sector.

Spanish exports of agricultural equipment resist the poor situation of the European market and increase in 2016 almost 3%

Exports of the Spanish agricultural equipment industry show its good health, in spite of the difficult situation of the European market, its main destination, reaching in 2016 a total of 2,101,665,042.68 €, representing a growth of almost 3% with In relation to 2015. Data, published by AGRAGEX, the Spanish Association of Manufacturers and Exporters of Agricultural Machinery and Components, Greenhouses, Crop Protection, Irrigation Systems, Livestock Equipment, Animal Health and Nutrition, Forestry, Biomass And Post-Harvest, on the occasion of its participation in the International Fair for Animal Production-FIGAN, which took place in Zaragoza from 28th to 31th March.