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In a meeting with the presses, Agragex launches a direct message to the government so that no cut in external promotion of the sector
More internationalisation of the machinery to go out of the crisis
David Pozo29/02/2012
29 February 2012
On 14 February, in the restaurant zaragozano Gayarre, the Spanish Grouping of Manufacturers-Exporting of Agricultural Machinery and his Components, Systems of Irrigation, Equipment Grazier and of Post-harvest (AGRAGEX ), went back to gather a year more to the skilled presses to realise a balance of the exports of agricultural machinery of the recently concluded exercise, but mainly to insist in the need to centre the efforts in the internationalisation and the external promotion of the sector.
Pedro Rifé, president of the grouping, and Jaime Hernani, like director of AGRAGEX, put on the table the different challenges that the market of export of Spanish agricultural machinery has for this 2012, and that turns mainly on the need that “all the agents involved work jointly by promocionar to our companies in the outside, something basic to surpass the current situation of crisis”. “The government carries two years recortando of significant form the budget in external promotion”, affirmed Jaime Hernani, the one who adds: “What want to ask him to this new Government is that it was the sufficiently cold to distinguish between what works and it is necessary to improve and it superfluo that it has to adjust . The money that allocates to the international promotion is not an expense, is an investment to improve especially in period of crisis”.
Meeting with the presses in the Restaurant Gayarre of Saragossa, chaired by Pedro Rifé, president of the grouping, and Jaime Hernani, director of AGRAGEX.
From AGRAGEX, that in this 2012 has intensified the diary of activities with the aim to help to the Spanish companies to go out to the outside and win quota of market in the world, insists in that “the future of Spain is not in hands of the few multinationals that have his social headquarters in our country, but in the SMEs, that really are those that have to be supported by the administration”.
2011, a hopeful year in export
According to the last data contributed by Customs, the global exports of the sector agropecuario during the nine first months of 2011 reached the 1.349.149.600,54 million euros. A figure in which engloban the subsectores of machinery, components, irrigation, livestock, crop protection and poscosecha.
By countries, France, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Mexico, United Kingdom, Low Countries, Morocco, Japan and Turkey, have hoarded by this order the ten first places of destination of our machinery and agricultural technology. From AGRAGEX estimates that these figures show that we are in front of a very positioned sector in the outside, with products and services of high value added, but to the that it is necessary to support of unconditional form so that it can compete in the external market and combat the current situation of crisis.
Evolution of export in the last six years, in thousands of euros. The data of 2011 refers to the nine first months. Source: Customs.
