Information: Regional Government reinforces vocational training in the agricultural sector
The Azores are the first Portuguese region to deliver professional identification documents to farmers that undertook vocational training in the application of organic pharmaceuticals. The Regional Government provided the vocational training. The certificates of Agricultural Vocational Training and of Licenses to Apply Pharmaceutical Products were given to the farmers by the Regional Secretary ... more >>

Information: Government Outlines new Agricultural Land-Management Perimeter in São Jorge Island
The Regional Government of the Azores outlined a new Agricultural Land-Management Perimeter (POA) that encompasses 1,723 hectares of land in the Santo Antão/Topo. Its purpose is to promote the integrated development of the agricultural infrastructures in this locality of S. Jorge Island. The legislation proposed by the Secretary for Agriculture and Forestry concerning the new POA entrusts IR... more >>

Information: Government introduces new weapon in the fight to the Japanese beetle
The Government of the Azores is going to introduce a new way in the fight against the Japanese beetle nuisance in several islands of the Region - a locally produced fungus that can cause the death of the adults and of the larvae. The microbiological agent at issue - the metarhizium anisopliae - already began to be produced by the technical support secured by the United States as part of the Lajes... more >>