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News
From
Agenda
21

Compiled by
Christine
Betterton - Jones
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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). Strategic guidelines: Simplify and standardise
the legal and admin
framework; Reinforce
representation from
the sector; Increase
Spanish aquaculture
production by improving sector planning, and Select new
areas of aquaculture
interest. 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