The twenty-fifth edition of Fegasur, the National Fair of Livestock and Agriculture promoted by the Provincial Council of Cádiz at the C-Ifeca venue, in Jerez de la Frontera, has concluded with a historic attendance figure, reaching around 10,000 visitors.
In a statement, the Provincial Council has indicated that, after two years of forced suspension due to the health situation that affected livestock, all the proposals included in the Fegasur program have recorded a full house of the public, from the technical sessions to the tastings, workshops, showcookings and the exhibitions of arrieras, equestrian and Andalusian rat-dog work.
Attendees have had at their disposal a broad exhibition with up to 502 head of bovine livestock (limusin, retinto berrenda and avileña), ovine (churra lebrijana, lojeña and merina de Grazalema), caprine (florida), porcine (Iberian pig) and equine (Andalusian donkey). Likewise, it has been emphasized that, for sector professionals, this livestock show and the Official Auction continue to be the main axis of Fegasur.
Along these lines, it has been recalled that, as is customary, on the morning of Sunday, in addition to the various activities planned, it hosted the celebration of the Official National Auction of Select Livestock, integrated into the annual calendar designed each year by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. With more than 30 bidder cards distributed, 51 out of the 52 bovines of the retinta, limusin and avileña breeds that went up for auction were awarded above the starting price.
The Provincial Council of Cádiz, through the Area of Ecological Transition, led by the second vice president Javier Vidal, has provided its own stand in which different actions were carried out to highlight the quality of the livestock holding and the agricultural production of the province. At the same time, visits from schools in Cádiz were coordinated, integrated into the Environmental Education programs of the Provincial Institution.
The Institute of Employment and Socioeconomic and Technological Development (IEDT) of the Provincial Council has also been present with a stand, from which its technical staff has publicized the various cross-border cooperation projects (Spain-Portugal) that are managed from this organization.
In particular, the IEDT has made known in Fegasur two approved Interreg projects in the sixth call for proposals of European Territorial Cooperation Interreg-Poctep 2021-2027: Innopyme and Agrosocial Plus, funded at 75% by the European Union through Feder funds. For their presentation, the event "Innovar con los pies en el campo" has been held, focused on innovation, digitalization and applied artificial intelligence to livestock farming, agriculture and the rural business, showing real experiences and facilitating professional meetings to analyze what to improve, in what way and where to start.
In the technical block, and thanks to the participation of COAG-Cádiz, UPA-Cádiz and the Interfaz project of the Junta de Andalucía in terms of preventing wildfires, Fegasur 2026 has offered a program of talks that has had a notable response from professionals and technicians in the sector. In these sessions, topical issues have been addressed such as extensive livestock farming, advances in the control and spread of the oriental hornet, and the aforementioned wildfire prevention.
Likewise, the Diputación has highlighted the collaboration of Asaja-Cádiz, which has had its own space in which a selection of agri-food products from the province has been displayed and which, over the three days of the fair, has served the large number of members of the public of farmers and livestock farmers who have gone to C-Ifeca, in addition to developing its own program of activities.
Finally, it has been emphasized that, one more year, the support of the Real Federación Española de Asociaciones de Ganado Selecto, which has collaborated with the fair since its first edition, has been decisive for Fegasur to achieve these very positive results, something that is seen in the increase in livestock heads present at the exhibition and in the impact of the activity program "Todos en Fegasur".