New edition of "The agro-food week in five minutes"

This week in the news we talked about the situation of avian flu in Spain, the rise in the price of eggs, the visit of the European Commissioner for Fisheries, Costas Kadis, and the Datagri forum, among other issues. We began the review of the agro-food week pending the situation of avian flu. Spain has reinforced its fight to stop the advance of the virus, after sacrificing more than two million birds. The latest measures include the confinement of all poultry raised outdoors. The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, has called for serenity and the advisability of taking extreme prevention measures. This is to avoid further contagion and contact between wild birds and those raised for farming. The egg-laying poultry sector is the most affected so far and there is less impact on meat birds that are not raised outdoors. Precisely, this week we have learned that the price of eggs has risen by more than 22% in the last year and by 5% in just 30 days, according to ...