FEPEX - Spanish horticultural exports grew during the first nine months of 2012 to 10.5% in value and 7.4% in volume compared to the same period of 2011. In total have been allocated to foreign markets during this period 7.8 million tonnes of fruit and vegetables, with a total value of 6,733 million euros
Boletín Agrario - The Andalusian Workers Union organized a "march of women for dignity", which starts on Tuesday November 27 from the Seville town of El Coronil and ending in the Andalusian capital on Thursday 29th. Among the demands that women of SAT require is the elimination of the minimum requirement of the 35 days worked necessary to collect farm subsidy
Opinions / Artículos de opinión
Alonso Aguilar - Vicent Boix, a researcher specializing in trade and food sovereignty, has just published his second book, now available in bookstores under the suggestive name of "Pirates and pateras. Land grabbing in Africa.". As its subtitle indicates, the book focuses on the so-called "responsible agricultural investment" in Africa, or how markets are seeking safe securities in by others lands
FITAG - Over statements in Jaén last Tuesday November 20 by the Minister for Employment "no farmworker will stop receiving their agricultural income by temporary circumstances of drought," FITAG-UGT welcomes this commitment of Fatima Banez to exonerate days for access to the subsidy and agricultural income, but insists on the need to hold a meeting
Agribusiness / Promotion and Business
AGRAGEX - This week AGRAGEX, in collaboration with ICEX, organizes a new trade mission to Russia for intensify the promotion of Spanish industry and expand the presence of his companies in that country. In 2011, Spain exported agricultural machinery and components worth 33 million euros, a figure that AGRAGEX aims to increase "substantially over the coming years"
CCOO - This Monday, November 19th, the main organizations representing the Spanish meat industry (except ANAFRIC) and the two major labor unions, CCOO and UGT, signed after nearly two years of blockade the Collective Agreement for the sector. A framework that affects more than 90,000 people and 4,000 companies in Spain, the most important of all its food industry
Agriculture / Agricultural news
COAG - COAG has sent a letter to the Spanish Agricultural Minister, Miguel Arias Canete, demanding to authorities from Spain and UE toughened monitoring in frontiers to guarantee that quantities and prices be conform to what they subscribed in the free trade agreement EU-Morocco. COAG claim that during this month of November, every day except one, the input value was below the 0.46 € /Kg established
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
Agriculture / News on Livestock
Varias Organizaciones - Through this joint statement, the rabbit breeders of the Valencian Community in Spain, grouped in AVA, UPA, LA UNIÓ and FECUVA, request the immediate intervention by the Departments of Agriculture and of Trade to curb on an urgent basis to which they describe as "aggressive business practices that are carrying the sector to the brink of collapse"
FITAG / UGT - "The development of forest biomass sector would be an engine of employment and contribute to the cleaning of mountains and forests," said the Federation of Industry and Agricultural Workers of the spaniard UGT union . An activity that apart from his undoubted environmental value, could be a real catalyst for job creation in rural areas of Spain and other mediterranean countries.
FAO - The FAO Food Price Index fell one percent in October 2012, and for the first ten months of the year food prices were on average eight percent lower than in the same period in 2011. World food import bill may fall in 2012; rice production set for new record, emphasizes the agency of the United Nations