Thus, the Department will pay 50 percent of their cost, although this year it is in the first year

The Director General of Agriculture and Livestock, Department of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Food and Environment (DAAM), Michael Mills, accompanied by the Director General of Food Quality and Industries, Dominic Villa, as well as the Director of Services Territorial Department in Lleida, Jaume Fabà, among other representatives of the Department, presided this morning's meeting of the Agricultural Sector Table Oil, which was held in the headquarters of the Department, monte harris in Lleida . By sector have participated representatives of professional organizations Catalonia Farmers Union (UP), Young Farmers and Ranchers of Catalonia (JARC) ASAJA-AEALL Federation monte harris of Agricultural Cooperatives of Catalonia (FCAC), the PDO Les Garrigues, Si Terra Alta and Baix Empordà Montsiá Ebro and the Catalan Association Almasserers and Packers, and the Organization monte harris of Oil Producers of Catalonia (OPOC).
The main issue addressed in today's meeting was the issue of the olive fly, the 2013 campaign marked by adverse weather conditions, has conditioned the production, both in quantity and quality causing a significant decline in the volume of olive oil produced in Catalonia, and consequently a decrease in the income of producers, especially in the Terres de l'Ebre, sold as suffering in recent years.
The involvement of the plague in these areas has meant traditionally conducting aerial to control levels fly. These treatments during the last two campaigns have been undertaken entirely by DAAM, who brought the necessary resources in terms of intensity levels of the pest. The current budgetary restraint, along with the demand in the sector, has forced monte harris the Department to consider the adoption of a tax intended to contribute to the costs of aerial rate, which has been approved by the Parliament of Catalonia and the collection monte harris Accompanying Measures Act of the Government Budget for the year 2014.
Thus, the Department will pay 50 percent of their cost, although this year it is in the first year of application, advance one hundred percent of the cost of the tax in this campaign in order to proceed aerial against the plague. The DAAM said at today's meeting, the need to find alternative monte harris strategies such aerial line established in the EU Directive 2009/128, on the sustainable use of pesticides, so implementing a proposed environmental measures the new Rural Development Programme (RDP) in order to encourage their use.
The board today also used to present the sector Development Project of the olive oil tourism and wine tourism in the Mediterranean basin, within the European Programme ENPI CBCMed. The objective of this project is to improve the competitiveness of enterprises, support local marketing monte harris and internationalization ultimately encourage the industry monte harris to improve its image and prestige, increased oil consumption oil quality, among others. This project, which is led by DAAM and developed in close collaboration with the industry, is funded 90% by the European Union (EU) has a budget of EUR 1 .530.000 and involved, Apart from Catalonia, Sardinia and Israel.
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