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The city of Olivenza will host on April 27 the IE Forum on intensive and super intensive olive
Interempresas Media, together with the advertising agency Clúster Marketing & Comunication, will celebrate the IE Olivar Forum on April 27th, with the collaboration of Apag Extremadura ASAJA, CTAEX and CICYTEX, and will focus on the intensive and super intensive olive grove. Under the title 'Olivar, incombustible cultivation', this event will be held in the Convento San Juan de Dios of Olivenza (Badajoz) and will bring together experts from the olive sector of Spain and Portugal who will share all their knowledge and experience on the particularities of this type of culture.
The last storm causes losses of more than 170M € in the Valencian agrarian sector
The last torrential rains that have struck the Valencian Community have caused very serious damages to the agricultural sector, as they have denounced the agrarian organizations AVA-ASAJA and LA UNIÓ DE LLAURADORS I RAMADERS, that quantify the damages caused in agricultural infrastructures and crops (mainly of persimmon, citrus, table grapes and olive groves), in costs above 100 million euros.
Green gold that knows no boundaries
At the gates of the XVIII Montoro Olive Fair, held from 11 to 14 May, there is no better example how culture gets behind the economic growth of an area, such as Córdoba (Spain). But the olive grove has ceased to be an emblem of the Mediterranean to spread widely around the world: 11 million hectares. Cropping systems located under irrigation hedgerow profitability extract fruit which then will be the most acclaimed by consumers oil.
ENTEC solub product range expands
EuroChem Agro Iberia has extended the range ENTEC solub soluble fertilizers with nitrogen stabilized, with the inclusion of ENTEC solub 11 + 5 + 30. Solub ENTEC fertilizers inhibit the process of transformation of ammonia nitrogen to nitrate nitrogen (nitrification), ensuring their stay in the soil for a certain period.
Spain: Olive-pomace oil Interprofessional Organization is official
The General Council of Interprofessional Agri-food Organizations (OIA) of Spain has approved the application for recognition of the Interprofessional Organization olive pomace oil. This new Interprofessional join with the existing ones in the olive sector, such as the Interprofessional Organization table olives and the Spanish Olive Oil Interprofessional Organization.
EU aims to increase the quota for olive oil that arrives in Tunisia
Farmers the world's largest olive grove, Spain, und the rest of European too reject the decision of the Commission to increase by 35,000 tonnes tariff-free access of olive oil in Tunisia for two years, adding to the 56,700 t already granted to the North African country and amounts unlimited aimed at refining. In addition, there is a proposal for two years, which can not be justified by the situation of a bad campaign as before, and allows the permitted volume between once and no monthly quotas as in the current system.
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XVIII Montoro Olive Fair
About 120 stands form the backbone of the next edition of the Fair of the Olivo of Montoro, held from 11 to 14 May in the province of Cordoba. In the 10,000 square meters of exhibition space they are represented major companies in the olive sector and olive oil. Innovation and the latest technologies will be the protagonists of the most important single issue about fair in southern Europe, both exhibition and seminars and contests.