Melons

Next week, the first watermelons the Staay Food Group has cultivated in Costa Rica will arrive in the Netherlands. "Our Costa Rican branch SFG Dulce consists of six cultivation sites with a total area of 550 hectares. To spread the risk, these are situated over four cultivation areas: Parrita,
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The Cosarica brand has modernised both its packaging and the individual labelling of the product. read more

On Monday, between 50 and 80 trucks of watermelons arrived at the Batasingaram fruit market from Mahabubnagar, Zaheerabad, Jogulamba Gadwal and a few districts of neighboring Maharashtra and Karnataka. More summer fruit is expected to arrive in the days to come. read more

Uzbekistan growers produced 2.42 million tons of melons in 2022, which is 5.9% more compared to 2021, the Statics Agency of Uzbekistan said. An analysis of the total volume of melons produced by categories of farms showed that 42.9% of their volume falls on household plots and subsidiary farms,
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Uncertainty is one of the adjectives that could best be attributed to the coming spring season in the province, fundamentally due to the reduction in melon and, above all, watermelon acreage currently forecast, which could be around 15 to 20%. read more

Uncertainty is one of the adjectives that could best describe the coming spring season in the province of Almería, mainly because of the current forecast decline in melon and especially watermelon acreage, which could be between 15% and 20%. read more

Rijk Zwaan’s Tatayoyo pepper has beaten off stiff competition from nine other leading fresh produce innovations to win the Fruit Logistica Innovation Award 2023. read more

The Galkia Group (Fruca, Gregal and Jimbofresh) will be at Fruit Logistica from the 8th - 10th of February, to promote Galkia melons. The companies will have a dedicated Galkia promotion at their respective stands. “With Galkia the group aims revolutionise the future of this melon type in
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The Galkia Group (Fruca, Gregal and Jimbofresh) will promote the Galkia melon and the cooperation project at FRUIT LOGISTICA from 8 to 10 February. They will have a special Galkia promotion at their respective stands. "With Galkia, the group wants to promote the future of this
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"There's a lot of uncertainty regarding the next spring campaign in the province, mainly because producers currently plan to decrease the surface of melon and especially watermelon by 15 to 20%." read more

For the third consecutive year, a new Syngenta variety will be a finalist in the Fruit Logistica innovation awards. It is IDEAL™ melon, a cantaloupe melon that is characterised by its excellent shelf life and long shelf life without sacrificing any of the melon's flavour.
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Indian fresh produce company IG International and agri-tech start-up Agrograde have formed a joint venture, IG Agrograde. read more

LinkThings, an innovative company specializing in supply chain technology, today introduces a new multilingual platform, Coldcha 2.0. read more

It is called Granato F1 and is the new red-fleshed honeydew melon, suitable for open field cultivation, the result of research by the seed company Hm.Clause. A late-ripening product that stands out well in the sales counter, as Giulia Chiasserini, head of
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IDEAL melons with the special Harvest Indicator feature is a Syngenta patent-pending innovation. read more

Two highly experienced fruit traders have used their knowledge and contacts in Costa Rica to expand the volume of fresh melons supplied into Europe by United Fruits, a supplier based in Ridderkerk, near Rotterdam in the Netherlands. read more

The Costa Rican melon season will kick off at United Fruits in week 7. Gerbert van Egmond and Frank Levarht run this branch within this Dutch company. They have been operating their own business unit within United fruits, called LEFresh, since July 2022. Importing Costa Rican melons brings the
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This January, there were unprecedented hot streaks in the melon market. "I've never experienced this in this winter month before," says Leon van den Hombergh of the Dutch company Frankort&Koning. read more

MSC is offering a direct service dedicated to melons from Senegal, the Spain to/from Senegal service. This seasonal service will enable Senegalese melon producers to export melons in less than 6 days to their main consumers markets - Spain and Italy. read more

The cold has slowed down Almeria's horticultural production after a whole cycle that could be defined as exhausting for plants. "The high autumn and winter temperatures weakened the plants and advanced all the crops. As a result, we started to see the quality problems that we normally see
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