The Board of Rice in Extremadura emerges in Agroexpo

The Extremadura rice sector has completed the creation of the Board of Rice in Extremadura with the formal establishment of this organization, held today January 28, as part of Agroexpo 2016 being held until Saturday in Don Benito (Badajoz, Spain). This group is chaired by Agri-food Cooperatives Extremadura, aims to unite efforts and implement actions that benefit the whole sector.

Board of Rice in Extremadura, chaired by the president of the Rice Sector Agri-Food Cooperatives Extremadura, Felix Light, will aim from now on be an umbrella body of producers and industries of this sector in the region to to join efforts and implement actions that benefit the entire rice sector Extremadura.

Thus, it is constituted by initiative of the rice sector in Extremadura of an association with legal personality and full legal capacity, non-profit, having its registered office in Don Benito (Badajoz), particularly in facilities Feval .

The President of the Board of Rice in Extremadura, Felix Light said after the formation of this entity will be structured into three distinct sectors: the cooperative producer, producer private warehouses and transformer. The production sector will be composed of cooperatives and private stores of rice, regulated and registered according to the regulations affecting them, residing in Extremadura. Meanwhile, the industrial sector will be composed of the user industries in Extremadura rice.

His territory is that of the autonomous community of Extremadura and professional related activities include monitoring the campaign, research, innovation and development of rice cultivation and the products obtained from this and any other activity in favor of sector.

The Board of Rice has statutes that govern this association and that includes, among other things, that the representative office of that table are rotating annually.

It also establishes its goals and objectives, one of which is to track campaigns rice, to which it adds develop R & D related to the rice sector, variety trials, product development completed and anything that can help develop the sector.

Thus one of the main problems currently the rice sector of Extremadura are the limitations found in plant material, products effective against pests and weeds that force the industry to ask for every year the exceptional authorization of certain active substances also more expensive pesticides and cultivation.

This is one of the claims that the Board of Rice moved to the Administration, in addition to the need for proper labeling of containers in which the origin and the way of growing rice and betting industry specified by the Extremadura quality rice, which meets all requirements regarding food traceability.

In this regard, the Board of Rice in Extremadura continue working on the project initiated by Agrifood Cooperatives Extremadura for the creation of a Denomination of Origin of Extremadura rice, which would be based inter alia on the distinctive quality of water in the Guadiana, also seeking a variety of rice own area.

“We want to work on the quality of the crop, in marketing … and in all aspects to improve and enhance this area by helping to develop this crop in Extremadura to levels similar to those with other crops such as tomatoes or corn,” the President of the Board of Rice in Extremadura.

Source: Agroexpo