QS Academy: Live online seminar "Maintaining quality of fruit and vegetables in the warehouse".
What needs to be considered when storing fruit and vegetables? The QS Academy will answer these and other questions in the live online seminar on 28 June 2023. Participants will learn interesting

Moroccan bell pepper exports to EU and UK rapidly growing
Greenhouse vegetables are an important product of the Moroccan foreign trade, with bell peppers as one of the most exported categories from Morocco and the second in revenues from exports after

Agromark reduces its carbon footprint with Tosca
Agromark, a Spanish export company that produces and markets fruit and vegetables, needed to obtain a packaging solution for efficient transport that would guarantee the quality of its products at

Value-added crops dominate Moroccan market
Specialising in vegetables, the Agri-Souss exporting group includes Comaprim, Sofprim, Cofima, Cooperative Toupkal and Salad Time, together representing more than 90,000 tons of exported

Canada saw decline in availability of fresh fruits and vegetables in 2022
According to Statistics Canada, fewer fresh fruits and vegetables were available to Canadians in 2022. The most important causes were the ongoing supply chain issues, labor shortages and price

Increasing fruit and veg consumption ‘equivalent to walking 4,000 extra steps a day’
New research suggests that eating a diet high in fruits, vegetables and whole grains could be as good for your heart as walking 4,000 extra steps a day. The study was published in the European

Italy if it opts in front of the PPWR
The future European Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) has generated deep unease in the agricultural sector about the ban on packaging for fruit and vegetables. At the European level,

Agriculture and Fepex renew agreement to promote f&h, flowers and plants
The agreement, published today in the Official State Gazette, aims to promote the production and quality of Spanish fruit, vegetables, flowers and live plants in international markets, through

Market analysis: Belgians save on fresh food
A strikingly large number of Belgians are cutting back on fresh food purchases. Since the rise in inflation, a quarter of Belgians say they are putting less fresh fruit and vegetables in their

Fruitbox 95 · Sir Charles Godfray, Oxford University

Fruits and vegetables rich in flavonols help prevent memory loss
Fruits and vegetables seem to be good for your cognitive health, especially if they are rich in flavonol antioxidants. According to the Cosmos study, edited by experts from Columbia University and

Fresh-cut produce summer promotions brought to European shoppers
Fresh Del Monte, Inc., a vertically integrated producers, distributors, and marketers of high-quality fresh-cut fruits and vegetables, is collaborating with worldwide hit brand Miraculous™ for a

"Open ground vegetables ready a lot later across the board"
The Dutch open ground vegetable season is getting off to a delayed start this year. "We have started slowly, but we are still a week to ten days later than other years," Robert Vogel of AGF-Direct

Bad weather drives up vegetable prices
Vegetable prices jumped 13.9% affected by the crazy weather trend with the multiplication of extreme events, including drought and bad weather, which hit field crops hard, reducing their

More fruit, vegetables and meat but less fish
More health in the trolley of Italians despite price increases: compared to a year ago, they say they buy far more fruit, fresh vegetables and meat on the supermarket shelves, less liquor, wine

Aiab and Italia Ortofrutta together for the development of organic supply chains
Ortofrutta Italia, the Interprofessional Organisation of the Italian Fruit and Vegetable Industry, and AIAB, the Italian Association of Organic Agriculture, have signed a memorandum of

Polish and Spanish officials take down gang hiding drugs in fruit and vegetable shipments
Law enforcement officials in Spain and Poland have taken down an international drug trafficking organization, suspected of bringing vast amounts of drugs into Poland, hidden in shipments of fruits

Fruit at school, Veronamercato rewards students
Veronamercatosince 2007 has been disseminating a food education project dedicated to the schools of Verona and province to promote the consumption of fruit and vegetables among youngsters and make

Bulgaria imported more than 55,000 tons of fresh vegetables in January and February
In the first two months of this year alone, Bulgaria imported more than 55,000 tons of fresh vegetables. In the same period, the import of fresh fruit in Bulgaria was nearly 66,000 tons. For these

'Fruit and vegetables, we will learn to do less and better'
'For the future we will learn to make less and better quality fruit and vegetables, for example by investing in greenhouse crops'. This is the admonition that comes fromRiccardo Pompei, the

“We want to share our love for the vegetables we create"
Bringing together bright, healthy, and inspiring vegetables, along with a deeper understanding of the foods we eat and why, is Rijk Zwaan's focus at this year's Hort Connections. In an innovative

Mattarella, in Forlì the homage with fruit and vegetables from Romagna
A basket with the products of Romagna agriculture saved from the floods, from salad to garlic, from radishes to artichokes, from cucumbers to asparagus, was handed over by Coldiretti farmers in

Lidl, fresh fruit and vegetables in Pietra Ligure
Lidl Italia, the leading supermarket chain in the large-scale retail trade with 730 shops in the country, recently opened its first store in Pietra Ligure (SV). In the presence of deputy mayor

“We want to restore the value of our profession”
Since 2021, Saveurs Commerce has been engaged for the recognition of the professionals of the fruit and vegetable sector and to register the profession on the list of eligible craft trades.