AB Vista has joined forces with Winfarm to boost sales of its enzyme product range in Portugal.

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EBLEX supported a major launch of premium beef in Portugal targeted at high end food service in the country.

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Since last February 4, Adfood Group has one of the best equipped Centers of Innovation (Innovation Center) of private capital in the meat sector. The Center was opened by the President of the Generalitat of Catalonia, who highlighted the necessity of carrying out these type of initiatives in order to maintain the competivity in the international context.

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Animals rights organisation PETA carried out a symbolic protest outside the Australian Embassy on 19 April against that country’s tradition to cut sheep with garden shears in order to prevent larva infestation.

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Livestock farmers in Portugal and Spain face a fresh round of shutdowns and mergers, a situation provoking uncertainty among feed mills, as high grain costs add to the pressures forced by a "dire" economic situation. The beef sector faces shrinkage of about 10% in Spain, in line with that three years ago when grain prices last soared, a "high number for a sector characterized by its long production cycle", as farmers slaughter cattle at younger ages to save on feed bills.

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Portugal's imports of chicken meat were well down on year-earlier levels during the first five months of 2010, with frozen chicken orders dropping 21% to 5 500 tonnes and fresh chicken intake plummeting to 2 000t.

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WE would normally associate 100 hectare properties with lifestyle blocks, orchards, vineyards and market gardens. But in Portugal, properties of this size are common, accommodating numerous farming enterprises and supporting several families. Australian delegates to the eighth World Merino Conference got to experience first hand, the traditional Portuguese farming property of the Salgado family's Courela Seca Estate. The 100ha property is located near the small town of Gafanhoeira in the municipality of Arraiolos, about 100km east of the Portuguese capital city of Lisboa.

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French retailer Carrefour (CARR.PA) plans to sell its 524 Minipreco discount stores in Portugal, newspaper Le Figaro reported in an advance copy of its Wednesday edition without saying where it got the information.

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The English Beef and Lamb Executive (EBLEX), the British Pig Executive (BPEX) and UK Trade and Investment held an exhibition, hosted by HM Ambassador Alexander Ellis at the Residence in Lisbon on Wednesday 3 March, to promote beef, lamb and pork products in Portugal.

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EBLEX, BPEX and UK Trade and Investment held an exhibition, hosted by HM Ambassador Alexander Ellis at the Residence in Lisbon on Wednesday 3 March to promote beef, lamb and pork products in Portugal .

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Turning the beef fat into biofuel is one way to tackle an environmental problem, financial and even a public health issue

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Portuguese retail group Jeronimo Martins is planning to enter a new Eastern European market by 2012 and considering Russia, Ukraine or Romania as the possible variants of its expansion, according to the Portuguese media citing the company’s CEO Louis Paglia. The company uses

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Portuguese retail group Jeronimo Martins is planning to enter a new Eastern European market by 2012 and considering Russia, Ukraine or Romania as the possible variants of its expansion, according to the Portuguese media citing the company’s CEO Louis Paglia.

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The Regional Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources anticipates that the volume of Madeira aquaculture exports will increase around 80 per cent this year, going from 283,104 exported tonnes in 2008 to nearly 500,000 tonnes, according to FIS.

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pig genetics and breeding stock will soon be distributed throughout Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, Guiné Bissau and Cabo Verde. This follows the signing of a new contract between UK based pig breeding

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