Peaches

The global peach, nectarine and paraguayo markets are off to a good start in many countries, despite adverse weather in some growing regions. In the Netherlands, the Spanish stone fruit season started slowly, but peaches, nectarines, and paraguayos supplies gradually improved. read more

IMIDA, Murcian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research and Development, presented new stone fruit varieties to producers and technicians in week 25, including peaches, paraguayos and plums, which have a high flavour quality and are better adapted to the
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Supplies of peaches and nectarines in Canada are slimmer. “There’s a lot less fruit out there,” says Guy Milette with Courchesne Larose. read more

Murcia's Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research and Development (IMIDA), has presented farmers and technicians with new stone fruit varieties -such as peach, donut peaches, and plum, among others- that have high taste quality and are better adapted to climate change. read more

Früchte Eder GmbH of Kirchham began selling the first nectarines and peaches from Spain about a month ago. "The yields are higher than last year despite the weather conditions in Spain. End consumers are mainly asking for larger calibers, i.e. 18 pieces per 4 kg. Currently, the price is 2.75 to
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According to Fedor Rybalko, international consultant of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and EastFruit expert, relatively low peach and nectarine yields are expected in Uzbekistan in 2023, but farmers are expecting larger sizes of fruits. Accordingly, many fruit
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The current stone fruit season in Italy cannot be compared to any other year. If spring frosts usually felt like the Sword of Damocles on growers' heads in the past few years, this season the abundant rains and hailstorms in April and May have caused further damage, especially to the super-early
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In the Campania region, the peach and nectarine campaign has already started, and although the commercial trend is positive, this year producers have to deal with limited volumes due to bad weather. We took stock of the situation with Pietro Ciardiello, general manager of the Coop
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This year's peach and nectarine campaign has started a few weeks late in the south, where reduced volumes are expected due to the bad weather in the last month, but at the same time it is ahead of schedule in the north - particularly in Veneto - and is now also underway in Romagna,
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"Sales of summer produce are going very well and we cannot complain, but around the corner there is always the bad weather nightmare that threatens to compromise the production of peaches, after cherries and apricots". Speaking isPalmino Rotundo, of the distribution company
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For "Domenico Laghi", a historic trading business based in Forlì, the apricot, peach and nectarine campaign has started off well with good demand from both Italy and abroad. "Demand is lively but quantities are not very high, so there is no particular problem when it comes to selling and prices
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In line with the seasonal situation, Spanish shipments predominated for both peaches and nectarines. They were flanked by Italian goods. The first fruits from Greece appeared in Frankfurt and Munich, but the quality was not always convincing. According to the BLE, availability had expanded
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The flood hit Daniele Neri's company hard. His nursery in San Michele di Ravenna remained under water for a few days and 150 thousand scions dried in little time. read more

It was certainly not an exciting market yesterday for summer fruit at the Bologna Food Centre. Also due to bad weather, with a rainy day, sales of peaches, nectarines, apricots and cherries remained lukewarm and the quality level of the
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"In the Emilia-Romagna region, many fields are under water, which has caused the loss of some crops such as melons and stone fruit. In Sicily, peaches and nectarines are also produced, and the flowering has been equally affected by the weather. Accordingly, there will be less produce," says
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Following extreme temperature fluctuations over the winter, Nova Scotia looks as though it won’t be seeing a stone fruit crop this year. “The winter was extremely mild and we didn’t have the cold hardiness develop in the orchards that we generally have,” says Emily Lutz, executive
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In addition, three trucks carrying sweet cherry, cherry, and peach went through customs control. Ural's customs officers inspected fresh fruits for defects and spoilage and sent them to the laboratory for examination. read more

Since the beginning of this year, 180 tons of apricots, nectarines, peaches, and plums have arrived in the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation from abroad, according to the regional office of the Department of Agricultural Supervision. read more

The business group has been innovating and developing robotic systems for years to automate packaging tasks in fruit and vegetable warehouses. read more