Information: Regional Government promotes public meeting on climate change
The Regional Secretariat for Agriculture and the Environment promotes the meeting on the topic "Goals, Priorities and Vulnerabilities of the Azores to Climate Change" in Ponta Delgada next Tuesday, January 19. This initiative, carried out through the Regional Directorate for the Environment, is the first of several meetings that will be carried out in order to hear and involve public and private a... more >>

Information: Waste management is "one of the most important structural reforms" of the Azores, says Neto Viveiros
The Regional Secretary for Agriculture and the Environment stressed today the reformist nature of the policy that has been implemented by the Regional Government, now enhanced in its preventive component. "Speaking of waste management in the Region is to speak of a silent revolution that led to one of the most important structural reforms ever operated in the Azores," said Luís Neto Viveiros... more >>

Information: Luís Neto Viveiros points out that, for the first time, the LEADER approach covers all Azorean villages
The Regional Secretary for Agriculture and the Environment highlighted in Angra do Heroísmo the largest territorial coverage of the LEADER approach under the new Community Support Framework (CSF), which has allowed, at the proposal of the Regional Government to the European Commission, all villages of the archipelago to benefit from Support to Local Development projects under PRORURAL+. "He... more >>

Information: Government of the Azores increases support to milk and meat sectors under POSEI
The Regional Secretariat for Agriculture and the Environment published today in the Official Journal the new legislation of POSEI, following the European Commission's approval of the amendment to the programme presented by the Azorean Government in September 2015. It is important to note that the unit value of the dairy cow premium will be set at 190 Euros per cow on all islands. With this measur... more >>

Information: Government of the Azores provides more support to regional milk producers than that allocated by Brussels to the entire country, says Neto Viveiros
The Regional Secretary for Agriculture and the Environment stated Friday that the Government of the Azores, "aware of the difficulties faced by milk producers," has already allocated five million Euros from the regional budget "to support this determinant sector" of Azorean economy. Luís Neto Viveiros spoke in Arrifes at the delivery ceremony of the "Excellent Producer Prize 2014," an initia... more >>

Information: Regional Government creates agricultural and forestry advisory systems
The Regional Secretariat for Agriculture and the Environment, through the legislation published in the Official Journal, has created the Agricultural Advisory System (SAA) and the Forestry Advisory System (SAF), defining the legal requirements for the recognition of the entities interest in providing counselling services to businesspeople in the agricultural and forestry sectors. Therefore, they... more >>

Information: Labelling of Christmas Trees safeguards forests while maintaining tradition in the Azores
  The Government of the Azores promotes, once again, the labelling of natural Christmas trees for sale, assuring consumers that they are from authorised cuts in areas where there are trees in excess. This measure allows forest owners who request cutting permits for this purpose to have access to the labels without any additional costs, while proceeding with a tree cutting operation that ... more >>

Information: Regional government allocates 7.3 million Euros for investment in rural and agricultural roads
The Regional Secretary for Agriculture and Environment stated today that the allocation of 7.3 million Euros for investment in rural and agricultural roads was included in the draft plan for 2016, the year the Regional Government will conclude all requests for the electrification of farms in the archipelago. "We are talking about 1.8 million Euros for the electrification of about 90 farms," said ... more >>

Information: Regional Government implements new support measures for innovation, research and cooperation in rural areas
The Regional Secretariat for Agriculture and the Environment will implement, for the first time in the Region, support measures to enhance innovation, research and, above all, new forms of cooperation between agriculture, agri-food production and forestry. These measures are intended to help operators overcoming economic, environmental and social disadvantages resulting from fragmentation. Applic... more >>

Information: Azores have the best national indicators on water supply, reveals Luís Neto Viveiros
The Regional Secretary for Agriculture and the Environment revealed today that more than 98% of the water consumed in the Azores is of good quality. This figure is guaranteed by 23 thousand annual tests as well as by a permanent health monitoring system. In this regard, the Region is "a national reference in water distribution." "The Azores register the best national indicators for the water supp... more >>