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Spain: horticultural exports rise 1% in 2017 to exceed € 12,700M
The Spanish export of fresh fruits and vegetables in 2017 increased by 1% compared to 2016, totaling 12,704 million euros. In volume, they registered an increase of 0.5%, standing at 12.6 million tons, according to data from the General Directorate of Customs, made public on February 21, not meeting the initial growth forecasts, due to the retreat of the months of November and December, also slowing down the growth rate in relation to 2016 and 2015.
Ramiro Arnedo innovates with new red california peppers: Sanabria F1, Mauricio F1 and Ercina F1
The seed house Ramiro Arnedo has held a few days ago in El Ejido open days, to publicize their new red pepper varieties. During two days, more than 250 farmers and technicians of the main commercializing companies of the province could know the new material of Ramiro Arnedo. These are the varieties Sanabria F1, Mauricio F1 and Ercina F1 with which this Spanish company completes the growing cycles from the early to the late.
Bayer, sponsor of the 14th Congress of solanaceae and III of cucurbitaceae, held in Valencia
Bayer has participated in the Solanaceae and Cucurbit genomics Congress, held from 3th to 6th September at the Valencia Congress Center, which has brought together more than 400 scientists from all over the world to share experiences and knowledge in the field of the molecular genomics of these two important plant families, with crops as important in Spain as pepper, tomato, eggplant and cucumber, zucchini, melon and watermelon.
EU: escalation of EU imports of vegetables from Morocco, Turkey and Egypt
Community imports of vegetables from Morocco, Turkey and Egypt have experienced an unstoppable climb in recent years. A trend that has been reinforced in the first four months of 2017, compared to the same period of the previous year, with growth of 17% in the case of Morocco, 51% in Turkey and 20% in Egypt, according to the latest data updated by the Office of Statistics of the European Union (Eurostat), processed by FEPEX.
Andalusian agro-food exports to the United Kingdom grew 15.6% since July 2016
After a little more than a year after the announcement of the…
HORTIESPAÑA plans in Fruit Attraction the establishment of a European fruit and vegetable Interprofessional
Throughout the three days of Fruit Attraction, the Spanish Interprofessional Organisation of Fruits and Vegetables (HORTIESPAÑA) plans an intense and comprehensive agenda that includes receiving different visits, hold meetings with distributors and meetings with representatives of European cross,to face the proposed establishment of a Interprofessional European Organization
UNICA Group specialties in tomato and pepper, to view of Italian farmers
A group of 30 Italian farmers visited the facilities of the fruit and vegetable marketing Ferva S.A.T. UNICA Group. Are representatives of seed companies Hazera and Vilmorin, and producers dedicated to the cultivation of cherry tomato branch, peppers and eggplant, both in conventional agriculture and organic production.
Unstoppable biological control in the “orchard in Europe”
The Fruit and Vegetable Interprofessional Andalusia (HORTYFRUTA) is aware of the importance of biological control for horticulture under Andalusian coat this morning a "qualitative study on the use of biological control in greenhouse crops of the Almeria coast and Granada "made from June to September 2015. The study received financial support from the Andalusian Government through the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, through the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD).
Unica Group doesn’t top out in the end of the campaign
The business group continues to break record to finish with 230…
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International Congress of pepper. Peru 2016
The Association of Exporters (ADEX) has scheduled for next 15 and 17 June the 23rd International Congress of Pepper, to be held in Trujillo, La Libertad (Peru). This international conference is a must for the sector, where attendees and participants will discuss the issues that interest and concern to all and share updated information and research with colleagues from around the world.