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Copa and Cogeca congress 2016 in Athens (vid)

Copa and Cogeca, representing the voice of over 23 million European farmers and their families, as well as 22,000 agri-cooperatives, held a major Congress of European Farmers in the heart […]

13/10/2016 1' διάβασμα

New technologies allow for increased yields at a lower cost

At the same time, the cost of inputs like fertilisers, pesticides and irrigation water is significantly higher than in other countries. Such factors lead to an increase of the production […]

11/10/2016 10'+ διάβασμα

Innovation with the apple molasses

The secret of a successful business, according to modern management, is to be able to reinvent itself every 18 months. The Agricultural Cooperative of Zagora, over the last 100 years, […]

09/09/2016 5' διάβασμα

Organic fertilizer out of waste water

The demand for fertilizers based on phosphorus increases constantly in agriculture, while at the same time the sources are decreasing, having as result the exporting and the preparation of phosphorus […]

09/09/2016 51'' διάβασμα

Mysteries of Xylella Fastidiosa

Since 2013, when Italy, announced a new and mostly unknown disease, Xylella fastidiosa, the European olive trees are threatened. Today, we publish an exclusive documentary, a book of 1789 (the […]

05/09/2016 10'+ διάβασμα

Piraeus Bank announced a new investment program on Smart Agriculture

A new ambitious program which aims to improve the competitiveness of Greek agricultural products was announced during the 2nd Panhellenic Conference on the Development of the Greek Agriculture by Mr. […]

27/05/2016 2' διάβασμα

Trading Meat for Tires as Bartering Economy Grows in Greece

ATHENS — Thodoris Roussos stood in his butcher’s shop and pointed to a large white delivery truck at the curb. For months, he had put off replacing the tires, because […]

14/12/2015 10'+ διάβασμα

In Greece, Brewer’s Woes Reflect Struggle of Business Owners

ATHENS — Demetri Politopoulos, the founder of a midsize beer producer in northern Greece, says he nearly fainted when he heard the news late one night in October. The Greek […]

14/12/2015 6' διάβασμα

Vasileios Parolas elected vice-President of the General Committee for Agricultural Cooperaton (COGECA)

Mr Vasileios Parolas, member of the Board of Directors of “Ypaithros Chora”, General Manager of the Agricultural Cooperative of Thesprotia, member of the Board of Directors of GAIA EPICHEIREIN S.A. […]

03/12/2015 2' διάβασμα

Developments in the Rural Economy of Greece

The data included in this publication provide the opportunity of a summary update on issues that concern the economic accounts of agriculture and CAP expenditures, developments in agricultural income, an analysis of […]

02/12/2015 51'' διάβασμα

Hoping to Save a Way of Life by Rooting Out Greeks Who Farm on Paper

FOTOLIVOS, Greece — IN a stone cottage beside his pomegranate fields here in northern Greece, Christos Gontias, 46, is chain smoking and trying to give an interview. But his cellphone […]

30/11/2015 10'+ διάβασμα

Privileges threatened, days may be numbered for Greece’s ‘everyman’ farmers

A jovial potato farmer whose family has tilled the fertile land on the island of Naxos for over 200 years, Stelios Vathrokilis is unfazed by all that he believes a […]

30/11/2015 10' διάβασμα

Copa – Cogeca – Press Release

Simplification and implementation of the new EU Rural Development Programmes are top priorities in my two year mandate , new Chairperson of Copa and Cogeca Rural Development Working Party Sofia […]

25/11/2015 2' διάβασμα

Green light for remaining Rural Development Programmes in France and Italy and in Malta

In global terms, these RDPs mean that 116 of the 118 different national and regional RDPs have now been approved (covering nearly 95% of the EU funding), and completed in 26 Member States , […]

24/11/2015 6' διάβασμα

Marathon: Innovation in the field

It was back in 1967 when Markos Chorianopoulos a citizen of Marathon, Attica, but of Naxos descent, started cultivating seasonal agricultural products at the rich plains of the region and […]

12/11/2015 4' διάβασμα

Producers of Crete support the “Kritiko Iama” (“Cretan Remedy”)

The product with the Cretan signature came up out of the research of Ilias Kastanas, Christos Lionis and Stergios Pirintsios, all Professors from the University of Crete. It will be […]

06/11/2015 4' διάβασμα

Organic food: boosting EU production and enhancing consumer trust

Organic farmers, processors, traders and importers must meet higher but realistic sustainability criteria and undergo strict food fraud checks to boost trust in the EU organic label, said agriculture MEPs […]

13/10/2015 4' διάβασμα

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