Ifesa and Board subsidize 50 per cent of the cost of the machinery exhibitors attending Agromaq

The trade fair institution of Salamanca (Ifesa) and the Ministry of agriculture and livestock of Castile and León, Spain have reached an agreement that improves the conditions for assistance from the business of agricultural machinery of the community to Agromaq 2010. The regional government will support part of the expenses of transportation of castellano-leonesas machinery companies to attend the event. In this way, facilitates the presence of exhibitors who are really interested in participating in the fair but who need support, before the current economic climate, to deal with this investment.

In addition, Ifesa, for its part, maintains without increases in prices last year and also grant that already existed for this group of exhibitors of agricultural machinery, which will allow that this year the final subsidy they receive is 50% of the cost of space occupied. In other words, a company which occupies a plot of 300 sqm, would have to assume a cost of 1,500 euros, which will be reduced at 750 EUR, subsidized by the Organization of the fair and by the Ministry of agriculture and livestock.

In 2009, a group of businessmen of machinery raised to Ifesa the economic difficulties that had to attend this important event. Not in vain, the international agricultural fair of Castilla y León and the international exhibition of pure cattle, both integrated under the label of quality of Agromaq, has become the largest specialised exhibition in the agricultural sector in the community and one of the most relevant at the national level and with a growing international projection.

Thus, in recent months, those responsible for Ifesa have maintained numerous meetings, individual and collective with machinery manufacturers to know their status and assess their needs. Between the various requests of the Group highlighted the need to make a "gesture" by the Organization of the event to show their good will alleviate these difficulties. The trade fair institution cannot assume more reduction in their prices, they studied and applied various forms of external financing. For this purpose, those responsible for the entities that form Ifesa moved to Valladolid, and his efforts and efforts have materialized in the aforementioned grant from the regional government. Finally, the Department of agriculture will cover part of the expenses of transportation of the exhibitors of machinery.