Aguilera encourages the winners of the Hojiblanca awards to continue in their commitment to joining together and providing quality
The Minister of Agriculture and Fishing, Clara Aguilera, presided over the ceremony for the Hojiblanca Awards and the award for the Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) ‘Antequera’ and took advantage of the occasion to encourage the winners to “continue with their commitment to joining together and providing quality as a strategy for the future”.
The Minister congratulated the producers for their “great work and commitment to quality, an effort that has made Hojiblanca a global leader in extra virgin olive oil”.
As the Regional Government indicated in a memo, the Minister of Agriculture has encouraged producers to “continue working to improve the commercialisation and internationalisation of companies in the olive oil industry, committed to the concentration and differentiation of products through added value such as high quality brands”.
In this edition, the Hojiblanca Awards went to the Andalusian Agricultural Cooperative Society Nuestra Madre del Sol (Montoro, Cordoba), which won the award for Best Oil with Designation of Origin ‘Montoro-Adamuz’; the Cooperative Del Campo San Antonio Abad (Obejo, Cordoba), Best Ecological Oil; the Andalusian Cooperative Society Nuestra Señora del Rosario (Humilladero, Malaga), which won the Hojiblanca Award for Quality in Virgin Olive Oil; and the Andalusian Farming Cooperative Society Nuestra Señora de los Remedios (Antequera, Malaga), Best Virgin Olive Oil.
The Andalusian Cooperative Society Oleoalgaidas (Villanueva de Algaidas, Malaga), won the award for Best Extra Virgin Olive Oil granted by the PDO ‘Antequera’.
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