7th World Strawberry Congress will be in China
The minister applauds the initiative by the consortium of Spanish companies who took the exhibiting space awarded to the European Union. The leader of MARM kept a working meeting with businessmen from the agricultural sector that are settled in Beijing.
Rosa Aguilar, minister for the Environment, Rural and Marine, visited the facilities in the Changping district in Beijing (China) that will accommodate, next February, the 7th World Congress of Strawberry, in a area where the space for the European Union, about 5,000 square meters, is totally taken by greenhouses of a consortium of Spanish companies.
Spain strongly supported the celebration of the 7th Congress in China in 2012, after Huelva was the 2008 host. It was then that the managing project for a consortium in Changping was started, with the objective of investigating the application of Spanish technology in the Chinese traditional cultivation method.
The companies in the consortium, to which the minister acknowledges their initiative of working in China, are: Ritec, working with fertile irrigation; NGS, specialized in hydroponic cultivation; Eurosemillas, bringing up the seeds varieties; Solplast, working on plastics for greenhouses; and Tecnova, a foundation specialized in agricultural technology.
The presence of Spanish companies at the 7th world congress means a big opportunity for a sector where China has a big interest. The Asian country is, at the moment, a leader producer of strawberry, with an area of 84,300 hectares.
The national consumption of strawberry also grew rapidly as a result of the economic development in the country and the raising of income.
Before her visit to the facilities, the minister had a meeting with the vice-mayor of Changping, Shi Weidong, to whom she thanked for making the area available for warehouses construction and the collaboration of local authorities for the implementation of Spanish companies in Changping.
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