Currants
"Greenhouse redcurrant harvest starts two weeks late"
2023-05-19 00:00
In the Netherlands, the late spring affected BerryBrothers' soft fruit production. "Last year, we started harvesting greenhouse redcurrants as early as the beginning of May. Now, we won't start until early next week, so two weeks later," begins Nijs van Zuilen. "The farm workers were especially
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GroenLeven has started constructing Europe's largest softfruit covering agri-PV project. When this unique project is complete, Dutch grower Maarten van Hoof, who cultivates raspberries, blackberries, currants, and asparagus, will have 24,206 solar panels protecting his raspberries. These panels
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Poland: Exports of most berries increased, except strawberries
2023-05-17 00:00
The final calculation according to the Polish CIS (German Main Statistical Office) showed that berries ended 2022 with a production of around 589,000 tonnes. This is only 4 % more production than in the previous year. Strawberries achieved the largest share of the total harvest volume with 180,000 t, followed by
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Improving business resilience through climate-friendly farming
2023-05-16 00:00
Read how NFU member and Fruit Grower of the Year 2022 Anthony Snell is improving his business resilience through climate-friendly farming:
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Piedmontese wholesaler convicted of fraud
2023-05-12 00:00
The Nas inspection had led to the discovery of one tonne of fruit and vegetables poorly stored in the cold storage room. In addition to this, twenty-seven kilos of blueberries and currants that were in the process of being processed appeared already mouldy, although an employee was
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BVL/QS: Further emergency authorisation for plant protection product Exirel against cherry vinegar fly
2023-05-11 00:00
The use of the insecticide containing the active substance cyantraniliprole for the control of cherry vinegar flies (Drosophila suzukii) on red, white and black currants and on blueberries is authorised from 15 May to 11 September 2023.
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A new healthy reference for Leni's juices at Tuttofood
2023-05-11 00:00
The new Leni's juice reference based on Trentino-Alto Adige apples and berries, presented for the first time at Tuttofood (Hall 3, stand R07), combines territory and healthiness. Without the use of concentrates
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'Chilean redcurrants 'splash' at over 30 euro per package'
2023-05-03 00:00
Although temperatures are not in line with the season due to bad weather in many Italian regions, demand for summer fruits is growing in wholesale markets;
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Currants - pests and diseases during flowering (plantation monitoring, Lublin region 28.04.2023).
2023-05-01 00:00
Currently, coloured currants in most regions of Poland are in full bloom. This is an important time to carry out checks for the presence of pests such as currant bollworm, hopper spider, aphids and bollworms. Fungi also need to be checked
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Blackcurrants lead in regenerative farming project
2023-04-24 11:00
Ribena owner Suntory Beverage & Food Great Britain and Ireland (SBF GB&I) has unveiled a research project to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the growing of blackcurrants through regenerative farming practices.
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Plant phenological phase was determined for two black currant and two red currant cultivars on plantations located in Lubelskie voivodeship. Blackcurrant, more specifically early varieties, e.g. 'Tisel', and medium varieties, e.g. 'Tisel', and 'Tisel', were found to be in the phenological phase.
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Black currant is another fruit, after raspberry, whose production has recently brought growers a lot of joy. The rates of 8.00-9.00 zł/kg at which the crop was sold were the highest ever. They do, however, raise the question of what this will have
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BVL/QS: Emergency approval for Isonet Z in currants and gooseberries in the open field
2023-04-20 00:00
On the basis of Article 53 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, the Federal Office of Consumer Protection (BVL) has granted an emergency authorisation for the plant protection product Isonet Z.
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With each passing day, we are approaching the end of April, the weather is getting warmer and more flowering plants are appearing every day. Currants will be joining this venerable group in a moment. Already at this point, you can clearly see all the spreading clusters, on which any moment now
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Currant and sea buckthorn boom in Kyrgyzstan
2023-04-19 00:00
According to EastFruit, in the spring there is a sharp increase in requests for the purchase of blackcurrant and sea buckthorn seedlings from Kyrgyzstan, where many farmers are becoming interested in growing fruits.
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Grower Kwekerij De Koning from Etten-Leur delivered the first early raspberries of the Kwanza variety. "With this first sale we start the domestic soft fruit season. In the coming weeks and months we will start with the first sale of our blackberries, blueberries, currants,
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Currant - planting, cultivation, pruning and care
2023-04-14 00:00
For a bountiful currant harvest, the seedling is best planted in soil with a slightly acidic or neutral pH (6.5 pH) at about 10-15 cm. Ideally, the spacing between rows should be 4 m and 50-70 cm in the row. This heavy and labour-intensive manual planting process is worth the
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“Imported products make it easier to set up French products”
2023-03-30 00:00
As the manager of Paris Select, Didier Ioli prioritizes the French origin for all his products, but he still has to start the season with imported products. “We started the French Gariguette at the end of February, but when it comes to red fruits (raspberries, blackberries, blueberries,
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Currant future - webinar on 2 March
2023-02-28 00:00
What does the currant future hold? Everyone would like to know the answer to this question. Or at least anyone involved in currant growing. The market for both black and red currants has stacked up very erratically in recent seasons. After a few fat years
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LinkThings Introduces Coldcha 2.0, an AI Solution for Supply Chain.
2023-02-07 08:59
LinkThings, an innovative company specializing in supply chain technology, today introduces a new multilingual platform, Coldcha 2.0.
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