Blueberries

Growing asparagus at Asparagus is a family affair. “My grandfather used to grow them, along with vines and hops. Today, only the asparagus crops have survived, and we now also produce cereals, strawberries and field tomatoes,” explains Jean-Paul Bruché, manager of the farm. This spring
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Haskap berry harvest will begin in Quebec next week and growers are thankful for the rain received this week. “We are missing a lot of rain. Today is the first day we’re having a good amount of rain since April. It’s been a pretty dry season so we are irrigating each week,” says
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Consumers want to eat locally grown blueberries. Sekoya's varieties can revitalise local production and bridge the gap to out-of-season supply, says Hans Liekens, value chain and retail manager at Sekoya. read more

Spring was a long time coming in the Netherlands, but the somewhat grayer weather was good for citrus sales, says Gijsbert van Leeuwen, responsible for procurement at Olympic Fruit. "It wasn't really strawberry weather. Citrus, on the other hand - also because there was less supply from Spain -
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In a recent review article published in the journal Antioxidants, scientists in the United States and South Korea discuss the benefits of topical and dietary blueberry supplementation in preventing environmental stressor-mediated skin damage and preserving skin health. read more

Blueberry prices in Georgia have experienced a decline as the harvesting season approaches its peak. The head of the Blueberry Producers’ Association of Georgia, Torninke Panjavidze, in conversation with EastFruit, has reported that the average wholesale price of blueberries is currently
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The exponential growth of Peru’s blueberry industry, is not only a boon for producers, but service providers had to scale up rapidly to meet the demand for millions of plants, substrates, containers and the like. Alvaro Ramirez, commercial director of Matritech, an input supplier, has
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Belgium: Jef Colruyt quits as CEO, Stefan Goethaert succeeds read more

On November 9, 2023, at the Les Dunes d’Or congress hall in Agadir, Morocco, will be the capital of berries. Agadir has witnessed a rapid development of berries. In less than 10 years, raspberries and blueberries have exceeded an area of 4,500 hectares under greenhouse and out-of-soil cultivation. read more

Blueberry prices in Georgia have experienced a decline as the harvesting season approaches its peak. The head of the Blueberry Producers’ Association of Georgia, Torninke Panjavidze, in conversation with EastFruit, has reported that the average wholesale price of blueberries is currently
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Supplies of blueberries look to be better compared to this time last year. “Weather issues last year in both Georgia and North Carolina hurt overall industry volumes, but it has looked better this season and more balanced,” says Ryan Lockman, vice-president of sales and procurement for
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It is now mid-June, and in Romagna the harvesting of farmer's blueberries, a crop that is finding increasingly fertile areas in the territory, is beginning. Investing in this crop for some years now is the Spreta farm in Ravenna. We talked about the campaign that has just started with
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Ammar's story begins in the Iraqi capital, where he was born and raised. As a young boy, his curiosity was ignited by two seemingly unrelated events: witnessing the age-old traditions of farming around him and an encounter with technology imported from a far-off land. His father's trip to Japan
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New berry communication from Dr Krzysztof Gasparski (PROCAM) dated 13.06.2023. In the material recommendations for strawberry, raspberry and currant plantations. read more

For the control of cherry vinegar flies on strawberries, the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has granted an emergency authorisation for the plant protection product SpinTor (active ingredient: spinosad). read more

Poland is an important producer of fruit in the EU. In terms of the harvest volume of all types of fruit, Poles are ranked fourth – with the share of 8% in the EU production – after Spain, Italy and France, i.e. the countries where citrus and grapes are mostly cultivated. read more

When one thinks of Coöperatie Hoogstraten, greenhouse products such as tomatoes or strawberries probably come to mind first and foremost, but one would hardly think of watermelons. Wrongly so. Because in the warm and humid climate of the greenhouses, these fruits also thrive.
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The blueberry season is in full swing at the Belgian mixed farm Mertens-Hal. "We began picking in the greenhouse two weeks ago," begins Tom Mertens. "However, supply-wise, things are currently unfortunately not looking good. The early varieties didn't get enough light last year, so we have about
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This initiative responds to the need of Huelva's berry producers, especially strawberry, raspberry and blackberry, to respond to the new European regulations with real alternatives that guarantee crop health and sustainability. The situation is much more complex

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At the beginning of 2023, EastFruit analysts published an article: “Will the free fall in prices in the EU frozen raspberry market stop?”, which has generated a lot of discussions in the berry industry. read more