Apricots
Hungary’s 2023 apricot export season, set to start next month, will see lower volumes sent to the rest of Europe due to widespread frost damage during spring. Last year producers and exporters in the country had a good season, with reasonable volumes, while prices received from Germany,
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Summer fruits, the Italiafruit analysis
2023-05-25 00:00
The hot weather is starting to make itself felt and summer fruit is pawing the market in Bologna. The supply of melons, however, is still surplus to demand. Apricots are also already present in significant quantities, but the quality is not excellent. Little attractive produce at the moment for
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French apricot volumes are slightly lower than last year
2023-05-25 00:00
According to Peaches and Apricots of France, “the very first harvest of French apricots will take place this week (week 20), and more significant volumes should arrive on the market from the end of next week (week 21) and in week 22. For the whole season, forecasts are based on a volume
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"We are now increasingly importing our organic apricots from Spain instead of Italy"
2023-05-24 00:00
The massive rainfall in Italy is not only affecting the Emilia-Romagna region, but also other growing areas in the country.
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Bad weather causes damage in Sicily again
2023-05-24 00:00
Winds exceeding 100 km/h hit western, northern, and central Sicily on May 19th and 20th. Greenhouses covered in (old) plastic films and polytunnels were damaged, as well as many blossoming citrus fruit groves and orchards in full production. The immediate effects were apricot and peach drops, as
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Confagricoltura ER: '10 million fruit trees to be grubbed up'
2023-05-22 00:00
Confagricoltura Emilia Romagna is beginning to write the numbers of the disaster in the crater hit by the flood. We are talking about at least 10 million fruit trees to be uprooted - in particular peach and kiwii trees, which are more sensitive to water stagnation, but also apricot trees - along the
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"A lot of apricots lost due to bad weather conditions"
2023-05-19 00:00
When the rain comes down in buckets and at the wrong time, much of an entire year's work can be lost just like that. It happened to Adriano Vena, a grower from Montalbano Jonico, a village in the southern Italian province of Matera.
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"A lot of apricots lost due to bad weather"
2023-05-19 00:00
When the rain comes down in buckets and at the wrong time, much of an entire year's work can be lost just like that. It happened to Adriano Vena, a grower from Montalbano Jonico, a village in the southern Italian province of Matera.
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This summer, there will be a lack of apricots, cherry plums, and early sweet cherries. The harvest of plums, cherries, and late sweet cherries is also uncertain as it depends on the weather in the second half of May.
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'Sales blocked for summer fruit'
2023-05-17 00:00
The weather these days, which is not exactly spring-like, is directly influencing sales in the markets and, this, also affects the agricultural phase.
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“Approvals should take weather hazards into account”
2023-05-17 00:00
For the French company Louis Rosario, the apricot campaign started 3 weeks ago with the Murcia region. The production from Valencia has just started and will be followed by the Lleida region, which should have slightly higher volumes this year, according to the first predictions. The current
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“We are optimistic about the apricot season”
2023-05-16 00:00
At the dawn of the 2023 apricot season, Raphaël Martinez, director of Peaches and Apricots of France, highlights the trends that are emerging for this campaign.
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"The lower supply of Chilean plums in the markets is leading us to expect a good start for the Spanish plum season"
2023-05-11 00:00
The stone fruit harvest has started slowly in Extremadura with the first apricots and with very limited volumes. Soon the first nectarines, peaches and extra early flat peaches will also arrive.
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"Despite the high risk of frost, we will harvest our first marketable apricot crop this year"
2023-05-11 00:00
For a long time, stone fruits such as apricots, nectarines and peaches were regarded as imported goods par excellence. But after the first, successful cultivation trials in southern Germany, the tropical fruits are now also growing and thriving in Lower Saxony. "We will harvest our first
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"Stone fruit still in short supply in May, but of good quality"
2023-05-10 00:00
At the Staay Food Group, too, the Spanish season began two weeks late. "No numbers are available yet, but we've started," says Nico Veldhoen. "Because productions are two weeks behind, the market's completely different. A late market usually gives high prices."
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Aldi to buy 7,100 tonnes of Spanish bone meal
2023-05-09 00:00
ALDI plans to buy around 7,100 tonnes of stone fruit from national suppliers between May and September this year. The supermarket chain plans to increase its purchase of this produce by around 9% compared to last year, when the figure was 6,512 tonnes. The
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Stone fruits analysed by Italiafruit
2023-05-09 00:00
For stone fruit, the week began with substantial arrivals on the markets, especially from abroad.
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EastFruit expert Bakhtiyor Abduvokhidov visited the wholesale and retail market in the north of Tajikistan and shared an interesting video in which he shows the assortment, quality, unusual packaging and very low prices of fruits and vegetables. The information is valid for of May 3, 2023
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Lots of cherries, apricots, strawberries and cucumbers at $0.3 per kg – a video review of the market in Tajikistan!
2023-05-06 00:00
EastFruit expert Bakhtiyor Abduvokhidov visited the wholesale and retail market in the north of Tajikistan and shared an interesting video in which he shows the assortment, quality, unusual packaging and very low prices of fruits and vegetables. The information is valid for of May 3, 2023 as
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Cooperatives promote stone fruit consumption
2023-05-04 00:00
Cooperatives producing stone fruit, mainly peaches, nectarines, apricots, plums, flat peaches and cherries, have launched this Wednesday, 3 May, the campaign 'Buenas Hasta el Hueso' (Good to the Stone), with the aim of promoting their consumption and spreading the word about their benefits as a source of
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