One of the last trenches in the objective of labor equality for women and men is in agricultural and fishing work. Thus, although in Andalusia women already account for 30% of the members of the cooperatives agroalimentarias, in the governing councils there are less than 4%. Adoración Blanque, the secretary of Equality of Asaja, points […]
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Grow cucumber to end up destroying a third of the crop
The sea of plastic in Almería is known throughout the world and is a source of employment for thousands of people, which has not prevented a price crisis in some products that, in the case of the cucumber, an attempt is made to stop with the withdrawal of 30% of the marketable production and in […]
The agri-food sector is claimed as “key” to the challenge of recovery
In the meeting they have participated Esperanza Orellana, general director of agricultural productions and markets, Miguel Angel Higuera, General Director of ANPROGAPOR, Gabriel Trenzado, Director of Technical and International Services of Cooperativa AgrÃcola, Javier López, General Director of PROVACUNO, VÃctor Cordoba, General Manager of the Dairy Unit of Grupo Pascual, Rafael Fuertes, CEO of Grupo […]
Citrus farming demands from the EU more control over South Africa’s ‘unfair competition’ with pesticides
In the year that South Africa will break record in citrus exports, the sector continues to demand that the European Union (EU) increase control over imported fruit from this African country before the high number of pesticides detected by the Department of Agriculture. The latest wake-up call on the need to increase control over […]
Uncertainty among Spanish farmers before the new CAP due to its broad environmental requirements
With “caution”, “concern” and “uncertainty”. This is the mood of Spain’s farmers and ranchers after learning of the agreement reached by the agriculture ministers in the Council of the European Union who will regulate the basic rules of the agricultural sector until 2027, a pact which must still be ratified by the European Parliament and […]
The 42,000 million that Spain is gambling in the battle of the new CAP
The European Parliament and the twenty-seven member states finalize details of their positions regarding the negotiation of the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (PAC), one of the milestones of European integration, in which Spain gambles the distribution of 41,925 million euros, just over 34,000 in direct payments. Last July, the leaders of the […]
The EU closes an agreement on the reform of the CAP that will regulate the field between 2023 and 2027
The countries of the European Union (EU) closed at dawn on Wednesday, after 42 hours of negotiations, an agreement on the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which will regulate the European countryside between 2023 and 2027. “We think it is a balanced proposal that responds to different sensitivities. It is imperfect but […]