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Spain: horticultural exports rise 1% in 2017 to exceed € 12,700M
The Spanish export of fresh fruits and vegetables in 2017 increased by 1% compared to 2016, totaling 12,704 million euros. In volume, they registered an increase of 0.5%, standing at 12.6 million tons, according to data from the General Directorate of Customs, made public on February 21, not meeting the initial growth forecasts, due to the retreat of the months of November and December, also slowing down the growth rate in relation to 2016 and 2015.
Nunhems® consolidates its leadership in Fruit Attraction in the development of new consumer trends
In the latest edition of Fruit Attraction, Nunhems®, the unit of horticultural seeds from Bayer has revealed its leadership strategy, based on the slogan "Imagine it, we make it happen", a working method with which the Nunhems® brand achieves seduce the consumer thanks to the involvement of all departments of the company with the common goal of working daily to find out what are the real needs of the food chain and determine the best way to meet them.
EU: escalation of EU imports of vegetables from Morocco, Turkey and Egypt
Community imports of vegetables from Morocco, Turkey and Egypt have experienced an unstoppable climb in recent years. A trend that has been reinforced in the first four months of 2017, compared to the same period of the previous year, with growth of 17% in the case of Morocco, 51% in Turkey and 20% in Egypt, according to the latest data updated by the Office of Statistics of the European Union (Eurostat), processed by FEPEX.
HORTIESPAÑA plans in Fruit Attraction the establishment of a European fruit and vegetable Interprofessional
Throughout the three days of Fruit Attraction, the Spanish Interprofessional Organisation of Fruits and Vegetables (HORTIESPAÑA) plans an intense and comprehensive agenda that includes receiving different visits, hold meetings with distributors and meetings with representatives of European cross,to face the proposed establishment of a Interprofessional European Organization
Semillas Fitó presents the newest for this campaign
In the R & D in Santa Maria del Aguila, El Ejido-Almeria (Spain), the company has presented its new products in eggplant, tomato and cucumber for this campaign: Amalia, Nerea, Ateneo and dredged, which have been all developed from this center for improvement and collaboration with local farmers.
Unstoppable biological control in the “orchard in Europe”
The Fruit and Vegetable Interprofessional Andalusia (HORTYFRUTA) is aware of the importance of biological control for horticulture under Andalusian coat this morning a "qualitative study on the use of biological control in greenhouse crops of the Almeria coast and Granada "made from June to September 2015. The study received financial support from the Andalusian Government through the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, through the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD).
Spain: Price of cucumber, 50% below the cost of production
Spanish cucumber producers say they are against an untenable situation that causes them to withdraw a product for which earn less than 20 cents a kilo.
Unica Group doesn’t top out in the end of the campaign
The business group continues to break record to finish with 230…