Agriculture

The first open air watermelons are expected to come to market on May 20, once again courtesy of the farmers of Trifilia, a Peloponnese village where each year the fruit always seems to ripen ahead of the competition. Weather conditions are often an...

Greek agricultural production has placed the country in one of the first places worldwide in regards to product exports. According to the President of the Panhellenic Exporters Association, Christina Sakellaridis who spoke at an event of the Ministry of...

The occasion of World Water Day on March 22 offers a timely opportunity to take stock of a potentially serious problem in Greece: unfettered water consumption. According to studies conducted by the Greek Institute of Geology and Mineral Exploration Management (IGMEM), Greece...

Farming in Greece used to be more of an empirical job, with knowledge being passed down each generation. This tradition is slowly changing and everyday more and more young people turn to agriculture, which appears to be an industry...

In the 5th “Panhellenic Agrotica Conference” Crysoula Tananaki, lecturer at the Department of Agriculture in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Pavlos Bagiatis, chairman of the Beekeeping Association of Thessaloniki, declared that after six years of research the qualitative...

Greek farmer Christos Panagiotidis from Thessaloniki, Greece, will participate in the European competition for the best young farmer. The competitors add up to 19 from an equal number of member-States of EU. The winner of the second European Congress will...

A special event to honor and support rural regions of Greece which despite their difficulties and the economic crisis, still produce an innovative range of products, was organized by the German and Belgian MEP's, Jo Leinen and Marc Tarabella. Greek...

Greece aims to launch 101 products with Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) and Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) to foreign markets. Some which were not previously more widely available abroad, include Kasseri cheese, Gruyere cheese of Naxos, the Cretan Rusk,...

Today,  during the clearance of accounts procedure the European Commission asked for the recovery of funds of the EU's agricultural policy, totaling 78.8 million euros, which Greece seems to have unnecessarily spent. However, some of the money has already...

The European Commission approved 22 projects today concerning community contribution for the promotion of agricultural products in the European Union and in third countries. The total budget of the projects, most of which will last three years, was 70...