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In the following opinion piece, Tomas Garcia Azcarate, researcher at the Institute of Economics, Geography and Demography (IEGD) of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), raises 23 points of reflection on the Transatlantic Trade Agreement and Investment (TTIP), for free trade between the European Union and the United States.
The food and beverage industry continues the process of internationalization. Exports 6% in 2015, a year in which growth was 3% increase. It is therefore the main industrial sector in Spain. Agriculture Minister has assessed positively the two years of implementation of the Strategic Framework Industry Food and Beverages.
Spanish pig sector supporting an unprecedented crisis since the problem lies not only in a mismatch between supply and demand, but is also accompanied by
Following bad weather conditions last year that have severely affected the harvest of hops in the EU, one of the main areas of work of the president of the working group “Hops” of farmers and agricultural cooperatives COPA-COGECA, Bernard Ingwiller will improve yields and creating export opportunities.
Twenty-five associates continue their busy schedule of business meetings at Fruit Logistica 2016 in order to increase exports of fruits and vegetables and diversify the destinations of its products. “The European Union is our largest customer, but are incorporating countries who value quality and service we offer producers of the Region of Murcia. We’re not only Huerta of Europe, working to be the garden of the world, “says the president of Proexport.
The executive director of the Foundation for Agrarian Innovation (FIA) recently visited Chile’s major fruit and vegetable production areas of Spain to explain the opportunities in the Chilean agriculture to the most advanced agricultural enterprises. This institution, which is part of the Chilean Agriculture Ministry works with all components of innovation, both in the creation, management and adaptation of products and services that help improve the competitiveness of the agri-food and forestry sector. Héctor Echeverría says in this exclusive interview with Spain a large opened gate for development and investment opens vegetables, because Chile will become a major exporter of such agricultural products.
It increased by 7% in volume and 14% in value over the same period of 2014, totaling 10 million tons and 9.477 million euros, according to the latest data updated by the Directorate General of Customs of the Ministry of Economy. FEPEX expected to end 2015 with a similar increase.
The Regulatory Board Protected Geographical Indication “Citrus Valencians” Wheel Group and are driving the marketing of citrus Valencia in the Andean markets, mainly Peru and Ecuador. Currently in this area of the Americas citrus are imported from the United States and are considering to replace the Valencian productions.
The Colombian Agricultural Institute (ICA) has increased its ability to control entry and exit of agricultural products in airports, ports and passages national border, by processes for training inspectors and exchange of knowledge and experiences with Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPM).
Spain quadruples egg exports to third countries. Between July and September, Spain sent half the eggs exported from the European Union (EU) to the United States. It is the country that increased the volume of table eggs exported from the EU from January to September 2015, with 25,717 tons, almost quadrupling the 6,700 tonnes shipped to third countries in the same period last year. The turnover amounted to 68 million euros.
Russia will not allow certain fruit and vegetables imported from Turkey in retaliation for the bombing last week of a Russian Su-24 bomber on the Syrian border incident which has caused a serious diplomatic row between the two countries. The list, which was ratified by the Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev and enter into force on January 1, 2016, including tomatoes, apples, oranges, tangerines, peaches and Turkish grapes, products that occupy leading positions in the Russian market .
Logistics Hub is the new cycle of events that will present FRUIT LOGISTICA 2016, between days 3 and 5 February. The current ten sessions will address the supply chain issues. This is where producers, exporters and marketers find the information they need to make the right decisions in terms of logistics, when transporting their goods.
The trend has increased over 2015, growing more than 30% of sales in the first half of the year and making China the second client of our exports outside the EU, after the US.
Representatives of the Andean country in Valencia reported the ease of doing business in Ecuador, among which are tax incentives for priority sectors, and answered the questions and complaints of entrepreneurs present.
As a leading industrial sector in Spain, the food and beverage industry turnover of more than 93,000 million euros, representing nearly 3% of GDP and directly employs half a million people. To be a benchmark exercise requires great responsibility and commitment to society and the economy. We are facing a great challenge boost the sector’s competitiveness in the international consolidation process in which we are immersed. To do this, innovation or the promotion are the cornerstones on which we are setting our strategy.
Foreign sales of Andean grains were down 24% to step back from its demand during the first eight months of the year, reports ADEX. While it expected to rebalance supply and demand, quinoa keeps pushing exports despite reduced their orders by 22% until August. The analysis and the challenges the sector will be made by ADEX in the Andean Grains Convention III on 17 and 18 November in Cusco.
