All Spain articles – Page 190
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ArticleSharp Interpack focuses on Spain
The UK’s leading designer and manufacturer of thermoformed rigid plastic packaging Sharp Interpack has appointed Spanish company Strongpack Soluciones Agrícolas to look after its packaging distribution interests in Spain.
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Spanish growers on organic trail
The area under organic production in Spain has increased by 6.7 per cent year on year.
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ArticleSpanish launch residue bid
Growers in Andalusia have secured backing from the Spanish regional and central government to launch a new organisation dedicated to reducing pesticide residues.
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Spanish tackle organic fraud
Researchers in Spain trying to tackle organic fraud have managed to use nitrogen isotopic discrimination to determine if non-organic, synthetic fertilisers were used on sweet pepper plants.
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ArticleHigh hopes for Spanish grape season
Prospects for the Spanish grape season this year are shaping up well.
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ArticleSpanish call for import ban
Citrus growers in Spain’s major production area of Valencia are calling on their government to ban imports of South African citrus following the publication of plant health results from 2007 showing the presence of pest and disease.
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ArticleJaffa hands over keys to Spanish villa
The keys to a brand new Polaris World holiday home have been handed to a Tesco shopper in Sandhurst, who won the Jaffa Win a Spanish Villa competition.
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Biospain 2008 speakers unveiled
Biospain 2008, southern Europe’s largest biotech event to date, is to take place in Granada on 17-19 September.
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ArticleSpanish toms in crisis
The newly formed Andalusia supply chain trade body Hortyfruta made its first major move this week when it suspended sales of class II round tomatoes as a price crisis hit the sector.
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ArticleSpanish forecast strawb drop
Spanish growers have been experiencing difficulties getting sufficient seasonal workers from overseas before the start of the strawberry season later this month.
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ArticlePublic thumbs up for Spanish exotics
Foods from Spain gained useful insight into public perception of Spanish exotic fruits when it gave demonstrations of cherimoya and persimmon to members of the public at the Taste Spain festival at Borough Market.
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ArticleSpanish exotics find a home
The Spanish cherimoya and persimmon crops date back as far as the 18th century, but it is only now that these Spanish exotic lines are beginning to make an impact on the UK market. Elizabeth O’Keefe reports from the main growing areas of cherimoya and persimmon in Spain.
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ArticleSecond Spanish citrus drop
Spain’s second-largest citrus production region has revealed a forecast eight per cent decline in volume this season.
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ArticleSpanish villa to be won with Jaffa
The largest ever on-pack promotion by Jaffa was launched yesterday, with a Spanish villa up for grabs.
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ArticleSpanish citrus fights corner
A series of disastrous seasons in Spain in terms of grower returns has many producers fearful for the future of citrus production in their country. But with prospects of reduced volume and good quality, as well as various marketing and survival issues, the Spaniards are fighting their corner fiercely. Kathy Hammond reports on hopes for decent prices this season.
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ArticleSpain's raspberry growers cautious
Raspberry growers in the Spanish region of Huelva have begun plantings that should bear fruit at the end of October or beginning of November.
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ArticleSpain on target with wood recycling
Spain is well up on its targets for recycling wooden packaging.
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ArticleSpain banks on quality
Although salad shipments to the UK are predicted to fall this season, those who are bringing in high-quality produce should enjoy stable prospects. Doris Lee Butterworth reports.
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ArticleSpanish pears strong
Spanish pear prices are strong this season in the face of a lower crop.
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ArticleSpanish on the fly against pests
Spanish producers’ association Unió-Coag is calling on the regional authorities in Valencia to put in place a control programme against fruit fly as soon as possible.