QS Academy: Online Workshop "Basics of Quality Management and Audit Methodology
On 8 and 9 February 2023, the QS Academy invites you to the two-day online workshop "Basics of Quality Management and Audit Methodology": From 9 a.m. to approx. 4.30 p.m. each day, prospective

“The little delays that containers and vessels have, won’t affect the fruit quality”
According to Adam Malengiewicz, sales manager for Polish apple exporter Ewa-Bis, getting all the harvest of Polish apples done was a challenge this year: “By now, all of our apples have been

New Covent Garden Market traders help to educate Westminster Kingsway student chefs
The students at Westminster Kingsway College’s School of Culinary Arts and Hospitality (WestKing) will be learning about different seasonal fruit and vegetables each month this year thanks to

Scott Montague elected AFPA chair
Scott Montague will chair the Australian Fresh Produce Alliance (AFPA) in 2023. The managing director of family-owned fresh produce company Montague will take over from Fresh Select’s John Said,

SMEs call for improvements to the Skilled Workers Immigration Act
"The shortage of skilled workers and labour in Germany is one of the biggest challenges facing small and medium-sized enterprises," the German Association of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

The Summer Berry Company's green gains
Tell me about the Summer Berry Company’s journey so far. Our company exists as The Summer Berry Company Group since 2019 but the business draws on more than 50 years of experience in the berry

“Harvesting gloves represent an evolution in the collection of berries and other small fruits”
The lack of skilled workers is one of the most strategic challenges facing agriculture, especially in those products for which there is no automated harvesting and that are highly dependent on

British Army to carry out border checks as Walkout Wednesday nears
More than half a million teachers, civil servants and frontline workers in the UK will go on strike over pay and conditions tomorrow, in a slew of of widespread industrial action dubbed “Walkout

Result Group scoops WorldStar Award for traceability pilot
Result Group has won the World Packaging Organisation’s (WPO) 2023 WorldStar Award in the fresh fruit and vegetables category for its pioneering work on the Australian Table Grapes Traceability

Successful guava planting in Paraná
Growing guava with a seal of origin and certification for export became the main business of farmers Inês Sasaki and Marilda Leiko Kawasaki on their return to Brazil, after spending more than ten

Avocados From Mexico unveils Big Game teaser
Avocados From Mexico (AFM) has launched the official teaser for its 2023 Big Game ad. The commercial, featuring actress and comedy star Anna Faris in her Big Game debut, is part of the

Novelties and well-tested varieties on the tomato front
What could be more common than tomatoes? Yet behind the product - of which there are many different varieties - there is the extensive hard work of research. Italy's L'Ortolano has also been

Adelaide's former Holden car factory to become a large-scale mushroom producer
About five years after the Holden car brand ceased operations in Australia, the site of the last remaining manufacturing facility has undergone a drastic reworking. The former Holden plant in

Zmiana trendu w cenach białej kapusty?
Od początku tego roku ceny kapusty białej w Polsce znalazły się pod dużą presją zniżkową. Było to wynikiem nałożenia się kilku negatywnych czynników. Po pierwsze popyt na

APAE joins the 5 a Day Association
The Association for the Promotion of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption "5 a day" and the Spanish Association of Agri-Food Journalists (APAE) have signed a collaboration agreement that aims to work

The FEPEX Assembly in Lleida will analyse measures to tackle climate change.
The present climate change is one of countless that the Earth has undergone. This one in particular has two special characteristics: it is the most intense of those known to us, and it is caused

Lidl to invest an extra £4bn in British food
Lidl has unveiled plans to invest £4 billion in British food businesses in 2023 in a move it said cements its support for suppliers across the country. The latest move accelerates initial

Pacific businesses lack staff as workers leave for Australia and New Zealand
In 2022, more than 6,600 workers left Samoa for seasonal worker programs; this was double the number leaving before the pandemic. This means that local business are seeing staff shortages. For

Blue Whale: Focus on promising potentials
While the heat last summer led to lower harvests in other European countries, Blue Whale, France's market leader in the apple sector, is satisfied with the campaign so far. "The high temperatures

"The productive structure of the Spanish Levant is collapsing like Jenga".
Hundreds of people from the regions of Alicante, Murcia and Almeria, gathered last Tuesday in front of the gates of the Moncloa to protest against the planned cuts to the Tajo-Segura water