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Spain to invest €421 million in
aquaculture Spain’s Minister of
Agriculture, Food and Environment, MAGRAM, Isabel Garcia
Tejerina, announced that 421 million Euros will be allocated to the
Multiannual Aquaculture Strategic
Plan 2014/2020.
The plan outlines how aquaculture will be conducted in coming years in the framework of the
new EU Common Fisheries Policy
(CFP) and the European Maritime
and Fisheries Fund (EMFF)…
The strategic guidelines of the
Plan are: Simplify and standardize
the legal and administrative framework; Reinforce representation
from the sector; Increase Spanish
aquaculture production by improving sector planning, and Select
new areas of aquaculture interest.
For full story see: Mercopress
Spanish wine: good - but sold
too cheap Spaniards make a lot
of very good wine, but they sell
it at the price of a bad wine. This
same product is later commercialised by France and Italy at much
higher prices. The explanation for
Spanish wine’s inability to fetch
the market prices that experts
agree it deserves is many-fold:
a lack of good salespeople with
language skills, weak distribution
networks, over-abundant harvests
and low-paying customers.
Spain specializes in bulk wine.
Unbottled Spanish wine is used by
bars, supermarkets and sangria
makers across the globe.
Last year, Spain sold 1.25 billion
liters of bulk wine, a 38-percent
rise from the previous year. 3/4 of
this amount gets sent to France,
Germany, Portugal and Italy….
“It is much easier to sit in your
office and wait for a French agent
to come to you with an order, than
to go knocking on doors in Singapore,” he says.
“The sales agent who goes abroad
finds clients, but also finds out
what people are drinking outside
our borders, whether they prefer
sweet wines, red or white, in a bottle or in a plastic bag, and that kind
of information is essential in order
to adapt our supply.” For full story
see: El País in English
In Future The Spanish Climate
will become more like Morocco’s Important crops will be impacted Andalusian olives, lemons
in Valencia and even the country’s
vineyards in La Rioja could all be
at risk if temperatures rise to equal
those of Morocco, according to the
report “Cambio Climático en Europa 1950-2050 (Climate Change
in Europe 1950-2050) by Spanish climatologist Jonathan Gómez
Cantero“.
Spain, has experienced a rise in
temperature of 0.5 degrees during
every decade since the beginning
of the 20th century.
Add to this the decrease in precipitation since 1950 and you have
a country that has become both
significantly warmer and drier. For
full story see: The Local.es
Hot PAI New proposals submitted to develop the Saladar Jávea
Town Hall has received a new Integrated development proposal (PAI
- Plan de Accion Integrada) for urban development of the Saladar.
This will be a tricky issue for the
new administration to tackle after
the forthcoming elections.
The new General Town Plan
(PGOU) has yet to be finalised
and we are still operating under
the 1990 regulations, which identifies the Saladar as an urbanisable
area, although it is prone to flooding, and measures have to be taken to deal with this if any project is
to be approved.
Town Hall technicians are currently looking at the proposals
which will be presented to the
town’s Consultative Committee on
the environment and urban development before advancing.
From XAD: Patata caliente...