Peaches

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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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; read more

In the first 12 months of its existence, the Consortium for the Protection of Leonforte's PGI Peach, which represents about 92% of the cultivation of this fruit with Protected Geographical Indication, carried out actions that were mainly promotional. Contacts were made with local and national
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Five new products are arriving in Almaverde Bio's spring catalogue: five new organic drinks with no added sugar and a high fruit and vegetable content (70%). The new range produced by Fruttagel under the Almaverde Bio brand is designed to meet the growing demand of
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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 first Spanish stone fruits have already arrived in Italian markets: in the last few days we have found peaches (click here to read more) at very high prices; read more

Stone fruit producers in Emilia-Romagna have once again had to reckon with record-breaking frosts this year, which have wiped out a large part of their production. Temperatures plummeted to as low as -6° in the worst-hit areas, and photographs bear witness to what is
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Spanish peaches have already arrived on the market stalls in Brescia. The fruit has been on sale for a few days with respectable prices, although the low temperatures still do not encourage consumption; read more

Farmers in northern Greece are desperately seeking help abroad to get their fruit and other crops picked. It seems that local youth are not inclined to do the farm work and the once-reliable Albanian farmhands now prefer to go for jobs in northern EU countries. read more

Last week, temperatures dropped to 3 degrees below zero in the French department of Haute-Vienne. For grower Loic Kammer, the nights were spent monitoring the probes that measure the temperature in the orchard in real time. "Temperatures dropped as low as -3°.
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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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Today was a bitter if not dramatic awakening for many farmers in the province of Bologna, especially in the Valsamoggia area. For the second night in a row, the temperature dropped below zero: late frosts hit apricot trees, cherry trees,
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After the Covid-19 pandemic, we are all more sensitive and careful not to contract infections or diseases, and just hearing about it makes us on our guard. Usually we protect ourselves from contagion that can occur between individuals of the same species but a more unique case has occurred in India
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Bad weather with violent thunderstorms accompanied by hail hit the peninsula in a leopard-like pattern, from the capital to the Veneto and Romagna, causing severe damage to arable crops and fruit plants such as cherries, peaches, apples and pears in full bloom. This is what emerges from the
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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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Brokers of Moldovan insurance companies claim that in 2023, the number and amount of insurance transactions for cherry, sour cherry, apricot, and peach orchards against spring frosts decreased by 1.5-2 times compared to last year. The main reason is the amendments with administrative
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Tunisian peach and apricot growers are expecting a good season, thanks to strong demand, good weather conditions, and better productivity this year, according to Mohamed Akermi, CEO of Tunileaf. read more

The Florida peach season is three weeks away from getting underway. “The crop is a little light compared to last year. Most of our trees are 10-11 years old and they’re kind of slowing down a little bit and aren’t what they used to be,” says Ken Edison of Deer Park Peaches in
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What do peaches and sofas have in common? One only has to go back a few decades and think of the farmers who invested in stone fruits while their neighbours built small sheds to handcraft sofas and armchairs to realise that the connection is the
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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.  read more