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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.
The new image of COMPO EXPERT emphasizes innovation and quality as distinctive signs
The company COMPO EXPERT, the world leader in special fertilizers for professional use, has started 2017 with a new corporate image and new logo, which makes innovation and quality its most distinctive signs and with which it aspires to continue growing and meet the expectations of its collaborators and clients.
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".
The best tomato of the world will be promoted commercially in Fruit Logística
The Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) Tomate La Cañada will commercially promote the best tomato of the world (#elmejortomatedelmundo) in Fruit Logística, through companies such as Agroponiente, Biosabor, Casur, Parque Natural or Vegacañada, which will have their own stands in this important exhibition. At the same time, work will be carried out to visit clients and attract new ones.
Yara encourage active listening to their distributors and customers
Yara has recently celebrated its annual convention, which brought together customers and largest distributors of this group in Spain and Portugal. Based on the need of this Norwegian multinational of relying on the distribution to be closer to the farmer, this event, which took place at the Plaza de las Ventas in Madrid, has served to assess their clients about the development of the previous season, and sharing and define the bases on which will build the next campaign.
Uneven trend in marketing melon and watermelon
The latest marketing trend show an uneven two seasonal products such as watermelon and cantaloupe, bending the balance clearly in favor of the former, which has been gaining ground on the second, both surface-production and value- prices. In fact, watermelon consolidates more and more as a product of clear export orientation, with 75% of its production for the foreign market, compared with 51% who holds melon, according to data provided by the Association of Producers Organisations fruits and Vegetables of Almería (COEXPHAL).
Mexico opens its borders to the Spanish pork
The Spanish meat industry has valued the opening of the Mexican market to its production of pigmeat, as manifested from the Office of Export Meat Spain (OEEC). Spain thus becomes the first country in the European Union authorized to export pig meat to Mexico.
Spain: agricultural organizations agree concerns about the effects of ‘Brexit’
The common denominator among agricultural organizations that have ruled on the implications of the departure of the United Kingdom of the European Union (Brexit) is the climate of "concern and uncertainty" to the effects, even to calibrate, this decision will have on the sector.
The Government asks serenity and tranquility over the Brexit
The Acting Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, in an appearance in La Moncloa, expressed "the sorrow of the Spanish Government" about the outcome of the referendum in the UK, which has won the option defending the exit of Britain from the EU. In addition to sending a message of "peace and serenity", Rajoy has announced that it will meet with leaders of the main Spanish political forces before attending the European Council meeting to be held next week.
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Information Day on Trade in Goods Pork White Spanish between Spain and the Philippines
The Interprofessional Pork Layer White, INTERPORC organizes an information day on the Trade in Pork White Spanish between Spain and the Philippines where will be introduced the "Market Study Prospecting Pigmeat Philippines". The event will take place on July 27th at the Hall of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment (MAGRAMA).