With reason of the celebration of the 150 anniversary from his foundation, Bayer gathered the past 7 May, for the first time in Spain, to the directors of the three areas of business of the region Iberia to analyse the current situation of the company and explain his challenges of future. [+]

The Spanish Federation of the wooden Container and his Components (Fedemco) organised the past 30 May the day ‘Characterisation and Idoneidad of Sawing and Technical Wood in Contact with Foods', in collaboration with Aidima, in which it treated on the appearances that characterise and define the compliance of the supplies of wood sawing... [+]

It does very few weeks published the secuenciación of the genome of the peach ('Prunus persica') like result of the investigation llevar by a consortium of 28 centres of investigation and universities of 5 countries (Spain, USA, France, Italy and Chile). In our country the project has been to charge of Pere Arús, scientific director of the Irta, and that develops his work in the CRAG (Centre of Investigation in Agrogenómica-CSIC-Irta-UAB-UB)... [+]

Traditionally, the genetic improvement of vegetables has been focused to attributes like the performance, the resistance to plagues and illnesses and, in lower measure, appearances of external quality like the calibrate or the colouring of the fruit, bulbo, inflorescence, etc. However, in the last years have purchased special diverse interest characters as to the texture and other relative to the internal composition... [+]

The Third Congress of Potato, organised by Asociafruit and celebrated the past 4 April in the Inland revenue of Fifth (Seville), supposed a turning point regarding the analysis of the sector, gathering to agriculturalists of the sector of the potato, companies envasadoras and Spanish and European trading companies, technicians of the sector, providers of means of specific production for the sector, agricultural organisations... [+]

The set up of this initiative is due to that in the year 2009 the Ministry of Agriculture Fishes and Feeding of the Generalitat Valencian proposed us the execution of a study on different horticultural crops with the aim to minimise the presence of waste of plaguicidas, analysing strategies that allowed to obtain the product aprovechable commercially with ‘residue zero', keeping the productive levels and the final quality... [+]

The 'Tagete erecta' is one of the big protagonists inside the group of plants of season of spring and principles of summer. It belongs to the family of the 'Compound' and differentiates mainly of his sister, the 'Tagete pátula', in that his flowers are bigger and usually are of pure colours, in addition to being plants of greater size. [+]

The best test for a new variety is to happen the slat of quality and production that demand the agriculturalists of Almería. To know what think on varieties of Fitó as the courgette Atlantis, the cucumbers Caronte or Baezal, the pepper california Delux or the tomatoes Paladium and Molier, Fitó contributes the opinion of professionals of Almería that already are them cultivating... [+]

A manipulacion precise of the ultraviolet light that arrives to the crops allows to improve different appearances of the production: the form and the colour of the plants, the precocity of the harvests and an improvement in the control of plagues and illnesses. [+]

Something is changed in the agriculture. Producers that bet by the organic production, governments that draft rules to obtain crops without waste, consumers that demand healthy foods… In Europe this movement earns strength day in day out. The agricultural organisations range with this new current, whenever they demand the same norms for all the countries... [+]