Nectarines
"Despite the high risk of frost, we will harvest our first marketable apricot crop this year"
2023-05-11 00:00
For a long time, stone fruits such as apricots, nectarines and peaches were regarded as imported goods par excellence. But after the first, successful cultivation trials in southern Germany, the tropical fruits are now also growing and thriving in Lower Saxony. "We will harvest our first
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"The lower supply of Chilean plums in the markets is leading us to expect a good start for the Spanish plum season"
2023-05-11 00:00
The stone fruit harvest has started slowly in Extremadura with the first apricots and with very limited volumes. Soon the first nectarines, peaches and extra early flat peaches will also arrive.
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"In Extremadura, we have been lucky that this year the flowering has been delayed in all the trees"
2023-05-10 00:00
The Spanish stone fruit season is starting in Extremadura, where Frutas Biomova has just begun harvesting its biodynamic fruit. "We are going to have good production volumes of all fruits, except for the first nectarines that are harvested in May," says Jesús Moreno, of the Valdelacalzada-based
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Ondine flat nectarines are in the starting blocks
2023-05-10 00:00
Summer can come - and this year it brings juicy news: "We believe in Ondine because the quality of our flat nectarines and peaches is simply so high," emphasised Matteo Mazzoni of the Italian company of the same name when at last week's Macfrut the
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"We started the season for nectarines and peaches with 500-gr trays, but sales are still very slow"
2023-05-08 00:00
"This year there were no significant failures regarding stone fruit, so we expect a relatively normal harvest. It is also a good year for the peels, as the fruits tend to be smaller. More rain is needed for the fruits to grow larger," the Llombart company informs us. "We have started the season
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Ondine, the year of the launch in large-scale distribution
2023-05-08 00:00
The Emilia-Romagna peach-growing industry has a new opportunity to relaunch itself and it is called Ondine. The international club project for flat white-fleshed peaches and nectarines (which in Italy involves 4 top partners: Agrintesa-Alegra, Greenyard, Mazzoni and Naturitalia), from this year finally
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Cooperatives promote stone fruit consumption
2023-05-04 00:00
Cooperatives producing stone fruit, mainly peaches, nectarines, apricots, plums, flat peaches and cherries, have launched this Wednesday, 3 May, the campaign 'Buenas Hasta el Hueso' (Good to the Stone), with the aim of promoting their consumption and spreading the word about their benefits as a source of
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Fruit and vegetable price trends in Italy as at 2 May
2023-05-03 00:00
The Spanish peach and nectarine campaign has begun. Increasing quantities of Sicilian melons. Italian production of green beans is struggling to take off.Slowdown in demand for strawberries, but the trend is higher than last year.Price increases continue for
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Summer fruit is in full swing, the first nectarines in Rimini
2023-05-02 00:00
After the arrival of the first peaches (click here to read the article), it is now the turn of the Spanish nectarines, which have already been available at the Rimini market since last week, at the stand of Fedagro Rimini president wholesaler Alessandro Marchese;
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Alegra Group looks forward to summer season with optimism
2023-04-28 00:00
The Alegra Group at Macfrut 2023 will turn the spotlight on the upcoming summer campaign and bring to the Rimini Expo Centre, from 3 to 5 May, new products in the wake of high quality and a high level of service. Alegra, Brio and Valfrutta Fresco (Hall D3, stand 115)
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"I was very pleased with my new Pellerano mulcher"
2023-04-28 00:00
After he was handed it just a few days ago, Vincenzo Bilotta, an agri-business owner from Lamezia Terme (Calabria, Italy), could not resist the temptation to immediately try out his new Versilia mulcher with Automatic Inter-row Kit, trademarked by Pellerano.
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No competition for Chile during stone fruit season
2023-04-25 00:00
The Chilean stone fruit season has pretty much come to an end. “It has been a long season and the end is usually a bit of a battle,” says Cristian Ramila with Bengard Marketing. The season started off very stable as there typically is not much stone fruit on the market in December and
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The Sicilian organic stone fruit season has started
2023-04-19 00:00
The stone fruit campaign has started in Sicily, in the area between Ragusa and Catania. The fruit in greenhouses is practically ready to be harvested, and operations started on week 15 with nectarines.
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Austria: Severe frost damage in fruit growing
2023-04-11 00:00
The early start of vegetation together with the recent low night temperatures have caused serious frost damage in Austrian fruit growing, according to information from the 'Agricultural Information Centre' (AIZ). According to the report, stone fruit with apricots are particularly affected,
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Moderate stone fruit season expected in Spain in terms of volume
2023-04-07 00:00
Currently, the early growing areas of Spain are slowly but surely starting this year's stone fruit harvest. In a few weeks, the first apricots, peaches and nectarines will hit the German market. Compared to other fruit crops, stone fruit is considered to be particularly sensitive to weather
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Huelva's stone fruit campaign started at the end of last week with the marketing of the first greenhouse nectarines by Plus Berries. The harvest started on its usual dates and with a greater coloration than usual in the earliest fruits.
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The Junta de Andalucía and Asociafruit request aid from operational programs for the production of stone fruit trees
2023-04-03 00:00
The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water, and Rural Development and Asociafruit have agreed in a meeting, held in Seville, to urge the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food to include actions in the operational programs that allow an increase in the production of peaches, nectarine,
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Plum supplies continue to be steady from Chile though other stone fruit varieties such as peaches have finished for the season.
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Citrus and garlic, the next contact groups of the Joint Committee on Fruit and Vegetables 2023
2023-03-14 00:00
The meetings of the contact groups for France, Spain, Italy and Portugal, scheduled for 2023, are continuing, with the strawberry group having already been held on 14 February in Huelva.
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Spanish f&h exports decline in 2022
2023-02-22 00:00
The year-on-year drop in the volume exported was most notable in fruit, with a fall of 13%, totalling 6.6 million tonnes and affecting almost all products. In stone fruit, the main products fell, such as peach, with a 24% drop and 262,211 tonnes.
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