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The Melinda Consortium's forecasts for 2023/2024 are encouraging. read more

Andalusia leads the national vegetable production, exceeding 50%. These figures show the importance of horticulture in the Andalusian agricultural sector. Moreover, Granada and Almeria account for 85% of all fruit and vegetable production in Andalusia. read more

"Each year, more supermarkets are stocking Metis® products on their shelves, and more and more consumers associate Metis with quality and added value in plums, as well as an alternative to traditional products," state the brand's representatives. read more

Over 300,000 tonnes of cherry have been packed and shipped so far in the 2023-2024 season, a figure that reveals a contraction of 20% compared to the previous campaign period, according to Claudia Soler, executive director of the Cherry Committee at the Asoex association. read more

The fresh produce sector in Argentina says it is still too early to say what the effect will be, just over a month after new President Javier Milei took over and introduced several new measures, to help stabilise the country’s finances. Latin America’s biggest economy now has the world’s
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In Emilia Romagna, the pear 'machine' will have to start up again in a few weeks' time. Even if the necessary precautions are taken to avoid a recurrence of frost, the question remains for many producers of what to do for the future. There are no certain data yet but, according to
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Three years ago, ginger farmers in northeastern South Africa and southern Mozambique simultaneously started noticing that the foliage in their ginger lands die off two months after planting, and by the time plants recover in April, three valuable growing months had been lost. read more

According to information from Fresh Cargo Peru shared by Luisa Fernanda Saavedra, the commercial manager of CQ Fresh Fruit LLC, from week 24 to week 52, Peru shipped 11,604 containers of blueberries with a net weight of 169,412 tons. These figures represent a 32% decrease compared to the
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The ViVe_Beet project with its innovative RNA spray technology could revolutionise pest control in agriculture. An ecological strategy that would reduce the use of chemical insecticides and aim to protect the biodiversity and health of bees. Among
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The situation of citrus groves in the Valencian countryside continues to worsen: 1,737 dedicated hectares were lost in 2023 alone. The data is reported by revistamercados.com, which cites the report of the Unió Llauradora association. read more

The calendar mismatch does not help to assess the festive period, with days more or less sales than the previous year in weeks 51 and 52 of 2023, but also in the first week of 2024. The value trends for fruit and vegetables by weight imposed are positive and in double
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Market participants surveyed by Mintec in the first week of January were expecting strong shipments ahead of the release of the December 2023 position report on 11 January 2024. Estimates for the December shipment figure were reported in the range of 215-260 million pounds, with most respondents
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2023 was another challenging year for Port of Antwerp-Bruges. Geopolitical tensions and slowing global economic growth are driving down industrial production and trade flows. As a result, total throughput, which was 271 million tonnes of cargo in 2023, is down 5.5% from the previous year.
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The Central de Abastos, with more than half a million daily visitors, stretches across 320 ha on the eastern side of the Mexican metropolis. It is a wholesale produce market, but it is also a machine that feeds tens of millions of people every day. Unfortunately, it is also a huge source of food
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These figures, very positive in general terms, are excellent if two factors are taken into account: on the one hand, that they are based on an already tremendously positive year, the previous one, which has led to growth compared to the already very positive figures of the previous year.
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The Christmas week shows apparently exciting figures for Lcc fruit and vegetables, however the calendar effect, with one extra day of sales in 2023 compared to 2022, distorts the results, which we estimate would be down, at least in volume. We also report a performance
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The Northern Territory is Australia’s top grower of high-quality mangoes, with Australia’s favourite, sweet-tasting mangoes produced right here in the Territory. read more

Danish shipping giant Maersk warned customers on Friday to prepare for significant disruption after announcing it will divert all vessels from Red Sea routes around Africa’s Cape of Good Hope for the foreseeable future. read more

Peru exported 171,500 tonnes of fresh blueberries between week 18 (the start of the 2023/24 season) and week 51, a decrease of 32 per cent on the same period of the previous campaign. read more

Many farmers in Lower Saxony, northwestern Germany, have been working non-stop for days to save their lands from the floods. Regional farmers' association Landvolk Niedersachsen estimates that all of the 35,000 farms in Lower Saxony have suffered water damage to their fields. "Several hundred
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