Boletín Agrario - The European Milk Board has carried out this Monday, November 26th, a resounding mobilization in protest against low farm gate prices of raw milk in the European Union and the main causes of that situation. This was the first day of his campaign "1000 tractors to Brussels", in which around 2500 farmers (and about 1000 tractors) have taken the streets of the European capital
Copa-Cogeca - Copa-Cogeca regretted the lack of an agreement at the EU Summit on the future EU budget 2014-2020, warning "a speedy and positive decision is vital so that a final decision can be made on the future CAP in time for implementation in 2014".
UPA - Thousands of farmers and stockbreeders convened by agrarian organization UPA moved this Thursday, November 22, in Spain to demand "a European Union budget fair, adequate to the importance of our work." From the organization regret that the reform of the CAP is "totally alien" to the interests of Spain, denouncing the "brutal" budget cuts
Boletin Agrario - After the different meetings held during the first day of the Extraordinary Council of Heads of State of the European Union which takes place in Brussels, Commission President Herman Van Rompuy has unveiled a new budget plan that increases agricultural aid by 7,700 million euros and territorial cohesion funds at 11,000 million euros.
Partido Popular - MEP canary Popular Group and chairman of the Fisheries Committee of the European Parliament, Gabriel Mato, yesterday criticized the policy that the Community institutions are developing in fisheries and asked to work together to find solutions "to an sector that is having a rough time".
Unió de Pagesos - The farmers union Catalan sees "clearly unfair" cuts in European agricultural funds proposed by Herman Van Rompuy that they value, "would be added to those already mentioned by the European Commission's proposal for CAP reform." UdP regrets that the proposal of the President of the European Council "means a reduction to 2011 level prices for European funds in direct payments and CMO"
Amigos de la Tierra - This Wednesday, November 21, the European Parliament was positioned to the findings of two self-reports that assess the impact of the mining technique of hydraulic fracturing, known by the English term fracking, used to extract gas mainly shale. MEPs rejected an amendment tabled by the Greens parliamentary group to establish a moratorium on this mining technique
UCCL - The United Farm Workers of Castile and Leon (UCCL) requires to Mariano Rajoy the utmost firmness in the defense of CAP budget "if he do not want see hundreds of farms in Castile and Leon disappear". This organization view with tremendous concern "that farmers and ranchers are, again, a bargaining chip in negotiating EU budgets"
Amigos de la Tierra - In the European Week of Waste Reduction, Friends of the Earth Spain calls to the need to end the overconsumption and waste of natural resources. About the data of 2% reduction in the amount of waste generated in 2011 compared to 2010, FoE it "celebrates" although with reservations, because this occurs caused by the brutal economic crisis and declining consumption
COAG - According to data analyzed by the technical services of COAG on the basis of the official EU proposals for financial programming 2014-2020, Spain could lose 16% of the agricultural according the Van Rompuy's proposal, while with European Commission proposal the cut would be 11%. Under the worst scenario trading Spain would receive 1.139 million less per year
IRTA - This Friday, November 23 is celebrated in Lugo the first seminar of project IMPRO, an initiative of the 7th European Framework Programme, FP7, which aims to strengthen the weaknesses of principal health management strategies that are used on organic farms of dairy cattle. The event coincides with the Technical Conference on Organic Production in IBADER headquarters (23 and 24 November)
SEAE - "The compromise proposal of Van Rompuy to the EU budget 2014-2020 dramatically cuts rural development and environmental services and does not address key challenges". That is the valoration of ""the Spanish Society of Organic Agriculture about latest proposal to reduce the EU budget for 2014-2020 PAC that will be debated this week in Brussels
REDER - The Estatal Network of Rural Development from Spain considers the measure proposed by the current president of the European Council as "nonsense come from the northern states of Europe, that expect the Mediterranean countries will be limited to offer sun and sand to holidaymakers." REDER also notes that Andalucía, Castilla-La Mancha and Galicia could lose their status as territories of convergence
UPA - UPA complaint which, if successful the initiative of Herman Van Rompuy to reduce in 25,000 million euros EU funds for agriculture and rural development, "the system of European food production, which feeds more than 500 million people and employs tens of millions of citizens,would be in serious danger"
COAG - The Coordinator of Organizations of Farmers and Cattlemen from Spain (known by its Spanish acronym COAG ) presents this monday November 19 in Brussels its online sales platform, www.arcocoag.org , as part of the annual conference on innovation and sustainable agriculture organized by the European Commission. This website was born this past June with the participation of 540 farmers
Copa-Cogeca - Copa-Cogeca expresses its disappointment about the lack of an agreement between EU stakeholders - from farmers, agri-cooperatives, traders, food industry, to retailers - on implementation and enforcement of a code of good practice along the food supply chain. "An agreement would have helped in combating unfair and abusive practices in the food chain", they lament
ASAJA - ASAJA considers that Spain should reject clearly "the claims of the Cypriot presidency and Van Rompuy to laminate the European agricultural budget" in the next Summit of Heads of State from 22 and November 23. In that case Spain would line up with France, recalls ASAJA, which has already been shown frontally against the proposed tax cut of the community budget
Comisión Europea - The Commission has launched a Blueprint to Safeguard Europe's Water Resources, a strategy for ensuring that enough good quality water is available to meet the needs of people, the economy and the environment.
MAGRAMA - The European Parliament, the Commission and the Council of the EU reached this Wednesday, November 14, an agreement on the new regime of the POSEI that contemplates a supplementary aid to the budget of 40 million euros over the banana sector, of which the Canary Islands will receive around 20.24 million euros for the production, highlight from the MAGRAMA.
UPA - Thousands of farmers will be mobilized on 22 November in Spain, convened by the agrarian organization UPA, to protest against what they see as "dismantling of the rural world as we know it." On 22 and 23 November are critical days for the future of the Common Agricultural Policy, "which is more than 30% of total agricultural income in Spain," says UPA