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    The Spanish citrus sector would lose €1,500 million if 75 active ingredients are eliminated

    The National Symposium on Plant Health, held last week in Seville, was the framework chosen by the Business Association for the Protection of Plants (AEPLA) for the presentation of the results of the Low Yield Report, carried out by the consulting firm Steward Redqueen At the request of European Crop Protection (ECPA).
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    Spain launches campaign to request direct aid from the CAP

    Since 1st February, the campaign has begun which will allow some 795,000 farmers to submit, until 30 April, the single application for direct aid from the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for 2017. The total amount Amounting to EUR 4,926 million, which may be paid in the form of advances from 1th6 October and the balance as from 1st December.

    Spain increases its request for community aid for fruit and vegetables by 15%

    The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment (MAPAMA) has informed the European Commission of funding needs for 2017, under the fruit and vegetable aid scheme, of 270 million euros. Of this amount, which represents an increase of 15% compared to the 2016 request and 18% compared to 2015, 23 million will be allocated to measures for the prevention and management of market crises, which is 8% of the total.

    Unify criteria, the great challenge in phytosanitary registration

    To unify criteria when addressing the phytosanitary product registration, for the benefit of society, is the great challenge in which representatives of all sectors involved in plant health in Spain (producers, exporters, technicians, manufacturers, distributors, and the Central and Regional Administration), during the closing day of the 14th Symposium of Plant Protection, which has gathered in Seville around 1,200 professionals.

    Antonio Vergel: “Without phytosanitaries, agro-food production would be reduced by more than 50%”

    Without phytosanitaries, agro-food production would be drastically reduced by up to 50%, and it would be impossible to ensure the food needs of present and future populations, according to Carlos Vergel, president of the Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros Técnicos Agrícolas (COITAND). During the inagural day of the 14th Symposium on Plant Health, held in Seville from 25th to 27th January. Vergel regretted that a restrictive approach in Community legislation is making it difficult to register and use new products, although plant health is a key part of agricultural production. For its part, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development, Carmen Ortiz, has ensured that the Andalusian Government is working to promote plant health through aid to the Operational Groups of Innovation.

    Asaja Murcia demands that the Government focus efforts to reopen the Russian market

    The professional agricultural organization ASAJA Murcia demands the Government of Spain to work with intensity, from the highest levels, to achieve an end to the Russian veto of EU products and to recover a market "fundamental for the fruit and vegetable sector".

    Lamb meat continues to gain fans

    According to the latest market study commissioned by the Interprofessional Agro-Food Organization of Sheep and Goats (INTEROVIC), the upward trend in lamb meat consumption in Spain continues, reinforcing the increase recorded last year. This fact confirms the success of the European program of promotion to increase the consumption of meat of lamb and suckling lamb, that has been developing for two years in our country.

    Spain, leader in Europe on ecological crops

    As can be seen from the statistical data on organic agriculture and livestock for 2015 and published last November by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment (MAPAMA), our country is the first Member State of the European Union in the area of ​​organic crops, which has doubled in the last ten years.

    AVA-ASAJA warns: “passivity EU against French attacks encourages disenchantment with Europe”

    The Valencian Farmers Association (AVA-ASAJA) has strongly criticized the latest attacks of Gauls farmers against Spanish wine and has demanded strong sanctions from the European Union. In that sense, its president, Cristobal Aguado, has warned that inaction in Brussels to these repeated assaults of French producers encourages the feeling of disenchantment with the common European project. Behind this conflict, which is being extended in time, there are accusations of unfair competition and marketing of Spanish bulk wine as French by Gauls winegrowers.

    EC allocates 500 million euros to support measures for the dairy sector

    The European Commission has adopted a third package of measures to support the dairy sector, worth 500 million euros, in the Council of Agriculture Ministers held on July 18th, which, as stressed the Spanish Minister of Agriculture, Isabel García Tejerina, collects all the requests that Spain has been raised to Brussels in recent months, to alleviate the critical situation being experienced by farmers in dairy cattle.