Informação: Government regrets attacks on domestic production by major distributors
The Regional Secretary for Agriculture and Forestry condemned this Friday the situation taking place in certain national commercial establishment regarding the sales of milk, from foreign countries, at half of the price paid to producers. The government official considered this practice "as immoral and that should be condemned as it is detrimental to the interest of national milk production." Qu... Mais >>

Informação: Government invests 2.5 million Euros in water supply to São Miguel farms
The Regional Secretariat for Agriculture and Forestry awarded to a regional construction company the contract work for the "Construction of the Integrated Water Supply System to the in the POA (Agrarian Spatial Planning) of the Central Zone of São Miguel Island - Contendas Artificial Lake," a public investment of about 2.5 million Euros. These interventions will reinforce the distribution of... Mais >>

Informação: Azorean farming must be attentive to the issues that might weaken it
The difficulties “felt at a global scale” have brought instability and turmoil to the markets and, in this context, it is necessary to “be permanently attentive to the issues arising from the current context that might weaken with the solidarity and effort of all agents involved in the agricultural sector so that we may overcome every obstacle.” These statements were made ... Mais >>

Informação: Government moves ahead with financial support to the restructuring of the milk sector
The Government of the Azores has authorised the Regional Secretary for Agriculture and Forestry to allocate the maximum amount of 2,560,000 Euros to “financially support the ongoing organisational and economic restructuring of the Azorean milk sector.” Under the terms of a Resolution of the Council of the Government, published in the Official Journal on Monday, the aforementioned amou... Mais >>