Thursday, 11 April 2024 03:15

MAG launches corn cultivation program

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The Government of El Salvador innovates in its agricultural services to increase yields and profitability of production, with the launch of the Siembra de Maíz de Alto Rendimiento (SMAR) program.

The president of the Defensoría del Consumidor, Ricardo Salazar, gave the conference "Scope and challenges of consumer protection in the use of digital technologies in El Salvador", to contribute to the technical legal approach to consumer protection in the context of technological transformations in global markets and in the country.

Another contingent of salvadorans will travel to Canada during the week to work in various jobs thanks to the Labor Migration program, as announced by the minister of Labor and Social Welfare, Rolando Castro. 

Nearly 100 businessmen participated in the Financial Solutions Week, organized by the Financial Committee of the Cámara de Comercio e Industria de El Salvador (Camarasal).

El Salvador recently participated in one of the largest specialized fairs in South Korea. It is the Coffee Expo Seoul, edition 2024, an event dedicated exclusively to the coffee industry.

More than 1.05 billion tons of food was wasted in 2022 in the world, 60% coming from households, according to a report by the UN Environment Program (Pnuma), which notes that it happened in a year when a third of humanity was facing food insecurity.

Camarasal and Voces Vitales held the Pitch Competition, in which 10 women business leaders and participants of the We3A program presented their growth plan before specialized jurors, who awarded five of them with consultancies in e-commerce, merchandising and branding.

 

The study entitled El Salvador: panorama of opportunities, prepared by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), indicates that climate change has had a strong impact in the region in the reduction of productivity of the main crops such as corn 13%, rice and beans 11%, respectively.

The Embassy of El Salvador in the Dominican Republic participated in the 1st. Executive Commission of the Mesoamerica Project, a meeting in which they reviewed the strategic transformation process of this regional mechanism for this year and the coming years.

 

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