The Espárrago of Huétor Tájar, like referent in Euro Asper 2012
2 April 2012
The European congress gathered in Granada to European professionals of the sector to give to know the zone of greater production of espárrago of Europe, and where finds the espárrago triguero with Geographic Indication Protected (IGP) Huétor-Tájar. They put in common the vicisitudes and strategies of future of the sector, and besides could visit the plantations of the variety triguero, the headquarters of the Regulatory Council and the centres of manipulation. The election of Granada like headquarters of the 9º Simposium European of the Espárrago was not haphazard, but it was due to his links with the sector and to that possesses an I.G.P.
The program of Euro Asper 2012 centred in three big areas. On the one hand, the professionals that to him assisted offered a panoramic of the production of the espárrago in the main countries of the world and of Europe, being Spain –with Granada in command–, Holland, United Kingdom, Italy, France, Greece and Germany the greater producers of espárragos of the European Union. The assistants also incidieron in the crop of the espárrago and his challenges, treating appearances so notable like the last advances, the mechanisation and reduction of costs, the ecological footprint, the crop of the different varieties, etc. Finally, this congress also centred in the commercialisation of the espárrago and his instruments of promotion and differentiation, opportunities of market, distribution, the agriculture of vicinity like provider of the European distribution and his application to the espárrago, etc.
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