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Spain: approved the measures of the Support Program for the wine sector for the period 2019-2023

15 de January de 2018

The Spanish Government has approved, in the Council of Ministers held on January 12th, the application of the Support Program for the Spanish wine sector for the period 2019-2023. A decision that will make available to the sector measures financed by the EU, with an estimated budget of more than 1,000 million euros. The measures eligible to apply for grants will be wine promotion in third countries, restructuring and reconversion of vineyards, distillation of by-products and investments.

Case IH assumes the challenge of leading the future technological development of digital agriculture

12 de January de 2018

Within the framework of the seminar on digital agriculture organized by EURACTIV, the leading international independent media network specializing in European policies, Case IH is committed to leading the future technological development of digital agriculture. The brand was represented at this event by its vice president for the EMEA region, Thierry Panadero, who referred to digital agriculture as “the natural evolution of the era of precision agriculture”.

HORTIESPAÑA prepares a program to promote greenhouse fruit and vegetable production in Europe

9 de January de 2018

The Interprofessional Organization of Fruit and Vegetables of Spain HORTIESPAÑA, wants to continue with its work of defense of the greenhouse and make the jump to the European market to continue promoting and putting in value this system of culture, changing the negative image and the erroneous beliefs that have been settled in the minds of European consumers about winter products.

Juan Marín relieves Jorge Brotons as president of Eucofel

7 de December de 2017

The candidate of FEPEX, Juan Marín, was elected last December 5, in Brussels, president of the European Association of the Trade of Fruits and Vegetables of the EU, EUCOFEL, taking over from the current president of FEPEX, Jorge Brotons.

An energetic cluster composed of eight fruit and vegetable cooperatives is born

3 de December de 2017

Eight fruit and vegetable cooperatives will share their information for the first time in an energy cluster. It is an initiative framed within the European SCOoPE project, coordinated by Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias de España. This group, a pioneer in the use of real-time energy data to improve its efficiency through comparison or “benchmarking”, is made up of the Valencian cooperatives Vinícola de Lliria, Coopego, Coabe (Bétera), Rural San Vicente Ferrer de Benaguasil, Agricultural San José de Alcàsser, Copal (Algemesí), Anecoop and Alzicoop (Alzira).

Cajamar confirms the good health of Almeria’s horticulture and analyzes the consequences of Brexit

3 de December de 2017

Cajamar has confirmed the good evolution of the fruit and vegetables sector in Almeria, during the presentation of its report on the fruit and vegetable campaign 2016-17, which took place on November 30 in Almeria. An event attended by more than 200 entrepreneurs, technicians and professionals of the sector, and which has also included the presentation in Almeria of the document ‘Brexit and agri-food sector. Where we are and where we are going’.

EU: Member States support the new standards for organic farming

20 de November de 2017

The European Commission has assessed as a decisive step the support that Member States have expressed on November 20th, for the approval of new standards for organic farming, which would establish a simplified legal framework that would cover all producers, since be from the EU or from third countries exporting to the EU.

Spain: the Government appeals before the Court of Justice of the EU the fine for pastures to Andalusia

8 de November de 2017

As recently reported, in the Congress of Deputies, the Secretary General of Agriculture and Food, Carlos Cabanas, the Government of Spain has filed a complaint with the Court of Justice of the European Union, to try to reduce or cancel the fine imposed by the European Commission to Andalusia, for the financial correction derived from the problems in the admissibility of pasture lands in European agricultural aid between 2009 and 2013. A claim based on the disproportionality of the sanction.

García Tejerina will inaugurate the Agridata Summit, reference forum on digitization in Agriculture

4 de November de 2017

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food and Environment, Isabel García Tejerina, opens on November 8th the second edition of the Agridata Summit, a reference forum on digital transformation and big data in the agricultural sector, where you can learn about the vision of more 30 agricultural experts and companies and successful cases in the implementation of new technologies.

AEPLA questions the impartiality and rigor of the IARC regarding glyphosate

4 de November de 2017

AEPLA, a business association that represents the phytosanitary ware manufacturing sector in Spain, criticizes the conflict of interests and the lack of rigor in the IARC, an agency of the World Health Organization (WHO), regarding glyphosate. In fact, in the last weeks and months there has been a constant trickle of information published as a result of journalistic investigations carried out by international agencies and relevant media from different parts of the world about irregularities of that agency, whose report served to justify the positions they advocate. Do not renew an essential tool that has been used for agricultural and non-agricultural uses for more than 40 years.

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Spain: there are already 11 autonomous communities and three provinces declared by the EU free of ovine and caprine Brucellosis

22 de October de 2017

There are already 11 Autonomous Communities and three Spanish provinces declared officially by the EU as free from ovine and caprine brucellosis, and 10 Autonomous Communities and four provinces declared free of bovine brucellosis, after publication on 20th October, in the Official Journal of the European Union (DOUE), of Commission Implementing Decision 2017/1910 / EU, declaring the Autonomous Communities of La Rioja and Valencia and the provinces of Albacete, Cuenca and Guadalajara as officially free from ovine and caprine brucellosis. It also includes the declaration of the Autonomous Communities of Castilla La Mancha, Catalonia and Galicia and the province of Zamora, as officially free of bovine brucellosis.

Organic production and production factors

15 de October de 2017

Article written for e-Comercio Agrario by the general director of the Spanish Association of Manufacturers of Agro-nutrients (AEFA), in which he reflects on the expansion that organic production has been experiencing.

The collective brand “Naranja de Valencia” successfully opens its way to the Spanish and European Distribution Lines

15 de October de 2017

During the 2016/2017 campaign, the brands ORANGE DE VALENCIA and MANDARINA DE VALENCIA, registered by the Regulatory Council IGP Cítricos Valencianos, have successfully paved the way in Spanish and European Distribution, through different Supermarket Chains. This positioning of its products in the line of sale has evidenced its good acceptance and the growing number of consumers seeking oranges and mandarins 100% Origen Valencia (Valencian Community) with superior qualities, and certified at all times with the IGP Cítricos Valencianos label .