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IRTA investigates new varieties of high quality wheat resistant to drought and adapted to climate change

21 de August de 2018

The main effects of climate change that are already observed and predicted in the near future are the increase in temperatures, which will cause an increase in the evapotranspiration of the crops (value estimated at a global scale of 3,000 l per person and day), the increase of extreme weather events and the reduction of rainfall. These changes will probably lead to more severe and frequent droughts that will directly affect the viability and productivity of crops.

Spain: hydrographic confederations coordinate to anticipate possible drought scenarios

9 de November de 2017

The drought has focused a coordination meeting between the different Hydrographic Confederations, chaired by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment, Isabel García Tejerina and held at MAPAMA headquarters. The meeting has served to take stock of all the measures adopted since 2015, when the drought situation in the Júcar and Segura basins was decreed; to assess the application of the drought plans in all the basins; and analyze the answers to the possible scenarios, which allow serving the population in all of them.

UPA urges the Government to take urgent measures against a “historic” drought

4 de November de 2017

The Union of Small Farmers (UPA) has urged the Government of Spain to adopt urgent measures against a drought that qualifies as “historic”. The shortage of rains since last autumn has led our country to an emergency situation that however, as denounced by the UPA agrarian organization, is “ignored” by the Government. Farmers and ranchers say they feel “abandoned and surprised” in the absence of a management plan for a crisis of great gravity.

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A cereal campaign marked by climatology

2 de October de 2017

Opinion article written for ECA in which the general secretary of the Association of Grain and Oilseeds in Spain (ACCOE), José Manuel Álvarez, makes an assessment of the current cereal campaign.

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UPA values ​​this harvest negatively, both in production and prices

18 de September de 2017

The agricultural organization UPA has made a negative balance, both in production and in prices, of the current harvest, once this has become widespread throughout the national territory. Thus, and according to their calculations, the production of grapes has decreased by 20% as a result of bad climatology, a decline that in some territories has reached 60%. Although this bad situation is also suffered by other European competitors, in Spain winegrowers also have to deal with low prices. For this reason, the UPA has asked the Food Information and Control Agency (AICA) to intensify controls of compliance with the Law of the food chain.

Francisco Martínez Arroyo: “in the debate of the CAP it is necessary to focus the consumers”

28 de August de 2017

Francisco Martínez Arroyo, Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Development of Castilla-La Mancha reviews in this interview for ECA AGRI the most important issues of his two years of management. These include the Department’s commitment to generational change, greater visibility of women in agriculture, and cooperative projects, not to mention rural development and environmental policies.

The MAPAMA increases up to 200M€ supports drought

2 de August de 2017

The Ministry of agriculture and fisheries, food and environment (MAPAMA) will increase to 200 million euros credit funded owners of farms affected by the drought, as set out in the Ministerial order issued on August 1st in the official State Bulletin (BOE). Such aid, which will help alleviate the difficulties in the access to credit of these farms, will be managed through guarantees of the State Corporation Caución Agraria (SAECA).

The Government of Aragon enables up to 50M € to mitigate drought damage

29 de June de 2017

The Department of Rural Development and Sustainability of the Government of Aragon will support the creation of a specific line of loan of up to 50 million euros for farmers and ranchers affected by the drought that need to resort to financing their expenses. The aid will consist of financing the interest to which the banks perform these operations trying to get as close as possible to zero.

The Panama Canal transit will be limited the effects of El Niño

29 de March de 2016

The Canal Authority will limit Panamáinformó from April 18 the draft of vessels transiting the waterway. The measure is due to the drought caused by El Niño, which maintains extremely low levels in the two artificial lakes that feed the canal, lakes Gatun and Alhajuela.