Melons

The start of the 2023/2024 fresh fruit export season is set to kick off tonight (August 25) at the Port of Pecém. This season’s first shipment will amount to 2,500 tonnes. It will encompass a variety of products, including melons, watermelons, mangoes, and grapes grown in the states of
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Growing melons and watermelons in Latvia is still a bit unconventional, but there are more and more growers who are ready to experiment. Demand for local produce is high. However, the yields of melons and watermelons are well below the planned volume for this year, Latvian Radio reported today. read more

Great news for watermelon fans: a record-breaking bumper UK-grown crop is on the way. Shoppers will be able to judge for themselves when the predicted 11,000 UK-grown watermelons, the largest yield ever produced in Britain, exclusively hit Tesco shelves this week. read more

Wholesale prices for watermelon have been declining quite rapidly on the Moldovan market. Judging by the weekly wholesale price monitoring of EastFruit, the average price for watermelons during the past decreased by 20% – to 4 lei /kg ($0.23/kg) from 5-6 lei / kg ($ 0.28-0.34 / kg) in the
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Consumers in Bangkok highly appreciate the Sitthipong Japanese melons. The perfect T-shaped peduncle reflects the premium quality. “It is sold out before competing varieties,” Sitthipong Amataphan explains. He is the exclusive supplier of premium melons for Thailand’s high-end retailers.
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Summertime classically also means melon time, at least as long as the weather cooperates. Francesco Calabrese, Managing Director of Euro-Fruit GmbH, was only able to start selling his watermelons in mid-June, but the season will also extend accordingly until the beginning of September. "Our main
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Between 14 and 18 August, the cost of canary melons in the Brazilian domestic market saw an upswing in the Rio Grande do Norte/Ceará region. The 5 to 8 variety concluded the period with an average selling price of R$ 40.94 per 13 kg box, reflecting an 8% increase. read more

In the face of the sharp drop in melon and watermelon prices last week, ASAJA Castilla-La Mancha demanded that the production costs be respected. The vice president of the agrarian organization, Florencio Rodríguez, said this was a temporary situation and that things should normalize in the
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There are approximately 350 hectares invested in melons and watermelons this year by the producers' organization O.P Agricola Campidanese. So far, 75 per cent of the produce has already been harvested and placed on the market, but the current campaign seems to have more lows than highs. It is an
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A giant avocado's pictures have gone viral on Twitter. This avocado is as big as a watermelon and weighs at least 2 kilos. read more

After the successful first phase, which explored the origins of the crop in Almeria, and the second phase which captured the technological transformation in Murcia, Melones El Abuelo now dives into the fields of La Mancha to celebrate the rich agricultural tradition of this region. read more

In Belgium, the last few weeks' bad weather has been affecting typical summer fruit sales. Van Dijk Foods has been receiving melons from France for the past month, but sales are lagging. "The quality's good, and we get enough in, but no one craves melons in such weather," says Kristof Maes. read more

2023 marks the 10th anniversary of the marketing of the Charentais melon variety, Jenga, the reference in terms of taste within the Gautier range. To celebrate in style, Gautier Semences created an anniversary logo and a specific communication campaign from July to October. read more

In 2022, the EU’s combined harvested production of muskmelons, watermelons, strawberries, peaches and nectarines was 8.6 million tonnes, representing a decrease of 6.3% on the level in 2021 (9.2 million tonnes). This is according to a report by Eurostat. This downturn was due to the lower
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As greengrocers in Malaga suffer a shortage of supply in the popular summer fruits, prices of watermelons and melons has doubled. One of the farmers who grows watermelon in Malaga said the drought is causing the shortage, but storms have destroyed crops as well. He usually plants in the fertile
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In the first three months since the beginning of the melon export season from Uzbekistan, the volume of shipments of this product to foreign markets was 22% less than the record figure for the same period last year, EastFruit analysts say. read more

'The Nuragic melon campaign started later than in previous years, but the quality of production is excellent both in terms of flavour and in terms of the homogeneity of the sizes,' says Filippo Frongia, co-owner with Andrea Manca of Agro Mediterranea Group,
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Melon and watermelon producers in the Spanish regions of Murcia and Castilla-La Mancha say they will be able to guarantee a supply of fruit with excellent sweetness and texture as demand is expected to ramp up during summer. read more

Watermelon and high temperatures are such an inseparable combination that this fruit is one of the most 'meteoropathic' in terms of consumption of the entire fruit and vegetable sector. Without warm weather, demand freezes, but if the mercury rises, as it increasingly does
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Innovating, reading the market and anticipating trends, responding to consumer desires with constant and guaranteed quality: this is the winning strategy of Valfrutta Fresco. A strategy that sees the Romagna-based company, specialised in the premium segment, engaged in a constant
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