Apple

La Blottière®, pear and apple cultivar owners and growers from France, celebrated the company’s 60th anniversary with partners and customers at Fruit Logistica 2023. David Socheleau, manager of La Blottière Group, looks back at the company history. read more

Six months after their massive protest outside the Himachal Pradesh secretariat over non-fulfilment of pending demands, members of the Sanyukt Kisan Manch -- a conglomerate of 27 fruit and vegetable grower associations -- on Monday asked chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu to hold direct talks
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Melinda's good practices for sustainable logistics are the protagonists of the new commercial on air on all national TV and digital platforms. The short film celebrates the quality of the Golden Dop apple from Val di Non, in Trentino, highlighting the storage system in the
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The National Chamber of Pineapple Producers and Exporters (CANAPEP), which comprises about 85% of the 43,000 hectares of pineapples in Costa Rica, has warned that “the appreciation of the colon over the dollar would put at risk about 30,000 direct and 120,000 indirect jobs, as well as the
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Ivica Djordjevic, from the family nursery ‘Kalem Djordjevic’ based in central Serbia, hope his government will conclude negotiations with the European plant protection authorities that will enable them to export stone fruit and grape plants to the EU region again. read more

Iran’s Agriculture Minister Javad Sadatinejad has said that China will start importing apples from Iran under a deal signed last week, adding that some 100,000 tons of Iranian apple shipments will be exported to China under the first phase of the agreement. read more

Without a doubt, pineapples are one of Spain's most imported tropical fruits. Faostat data indicate that in 2021 the fruit was, in fact, the third most purchased item among the main tropical species, only behind bananas and avocados. However, the country also has its own production, and
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The intensive, many years long research onto the apples of the future from the Alte Land region resulted in the "Deichperle" apple about two years ago. The scab-resistant cross between Topaz and Dalinbel was bred by the Niederelbe ZIN breeding initiative in cooperation with the Osnabrück
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O'Terroir thus becomes a producer and distributor of the organic version of the Candine apple, with a commitment to develop this organic line with 25 hectares in production by 2027. read more

Roux Groenewald, CEO of Betko in Villiersdorp, has seen an early interest from Europe in Royal Gala. He attributes this to the impact of heat waves and the high cost of cooling in Europe for the national Gala offering. However, it doesn’t need to ship Royal Gala to the UK as soon as the
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Last month saw a protest by French growers, who uprooted their own apple trees due to the unsustainable pricing, demanding that retailers raise the value of the fruit by €0.20/kg. read more

T&G Global has assured customers it will have a crop of premium New Zealand apples to harvest this season. read more

Wan Hai Lines has upgraded its refer capacity and is coordinating with industry to improve supply chains in the lead-up to the peak of the Taiwanese pineapple season.  read more

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Vietnam and Poland both grow a lot of agricultural products, but experts claim this makes them complementary to each other. Nguyễn Hữu Nam, deputy director of the VCCI in HCM City, said: “Poland has high demand for Vietnamese products such as rice, basa fish, shrimp, mango, pineapple,
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These are uncertain times for Belgian fruit growers. Protests for better prices, talks of intent between cooperatives, and cultivation challenges are piling up. "It's a wonderful profession, but as things stand, I sometimes wonder how I can manage it all. The apples are a disaster this
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Club apple projects are growing and yielding positive results. At Fruit Logistica, Kiku told us about the Crimson Snow project. "It is going very well,' explains Jurgen Braun, Kiku's managing director. 'It is an almost exclusively Italian project, 600 out of 700 hectares are planted in Piedmont and
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The “massive” impact of hail in Ceres and Grabouw was probably underestimated in the South African topfruit industry’s first crop estimate, according to topfruit producer and exporter Tru-Cape. read more

Some 35% of Hawkes Bay apple crop could be lost due to Cyclone Gabrielle, says Paul Paynter of the Yummy Fruit Company, one of the region’s largest apple orcharding businesses. Still, it’s really too early to accurately predict the loss. read more

The Belgian company Optiflux, supported by The Province of Flemish Brabant and research partners KU Leuven and VCBT, has developed smart technology for the improved cold storage of top fruit. "The 'Digifruit' innovation project lets fruit growers store apples and pears more efficiently, cheaper,
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