Mercabarna, the Association of Fruit and Vegetable Wholesale Dealers (AGEM) and the Food Bank launched a campaign a year ago for businesses in the Central Fruit and Vegetable Market to encourage them to donate excess fresh produce. The goal was to help the Bank deal with the huge rise in demand for food for the needy that arose when the economic downturn began.
Mercabarna has opened a provisional car park next to entrance K to the precinct in order to facilitate parking in the area where construction work on the Multiservice II building and development of the space that formerly housed the Flower Market are going on.
The first stone of the future House of Agriculture, a facility that will serve as a meeting point for agricultural cooperatives and associations and which also aspires to become a forum for the dissemination of the opinions of Catalan farmers, was laid on 28 May.
The Government of Catalonia, Barcelona Provincial Council and the Municipal Markets Institute organised the 1st Municipal Markets of Catalonia Congress on 17 May, which drew associations of vendors, technicians and food professionals, including Mercabarna management.