Plums

From Syngenta research comes four Baby Plum tomato varieties specifically for the Italian market with high brix and also resistant to the Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus. The new cultivars developed Adorelle, datterino Syngenta read more

The Metis® brand made its appearance in Europe almost nine years ago with only one variety present at the end of the season: Sunset Sky. Since then, the range has been expanded with four additional varieties, making it possible to offer continuity of the supply from June to November. read more

Regionality is the core brand of Omira Milch vom Bodensee and Obst vom Bodensee Vertriebsgesellschaft (OvB). The regional synergy is now being expanded in the form of two new products: Since May, consumers have been able to buy yoghurt made from Lake Constance milk with fruit from Lake Constance in the
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American cherries have arrived in the market this week; Vietnamese durians and Thai mangosteens have dropped in price as the arrivals increased; in addition, seasonal domestic fruits such as Shandong blueberries, Sichuan plums, Yunnan Summer Black grapes, and domestic Kyoho grapes have also
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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 UK’s fruit exports to the EU have paid a heavy price for Brexit, with their value more than halving between March 2021 and March 2023, according to new data published by the UK government’s tax department HMRC. read more

Superplum has announced the launch of a new pre-packed fresh lychee offering as India’s season kicks off. read more

Start-up Superplum has announced the launch of a new range of packaged fresh lychees at the start of the Indian lychee season. The company is using innovative cold chain technology to keep its lychees fresh for up to 15 days. This would have
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After the appointment of Saro Tumino as the new general manager for Italy, international seed company Harmoniz - which was recently created from the merger of TomaTech and Nirit Seeds - continues to demonstrate the high strategic value of the Italian table tomato market. This time, the company
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Heavy late spring rain across Hungary last week caused significant cracking damage to early season cherry orchards. “The damage is reportedly widespread, even some sweet cherries under plastic cover suffered losses,” according to Peter Kelemen, from the Medifruct cooperative in Hungary, who
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This summer, there will be a lack of apricots, cherry plums, and early sweet cherries. The harvest of plums, cherries, and late sweet cherries is also uncertain as it depends on the weather in the second half of May. read more

Faced with the overflowing rivers and torrents that have hit Romagna in particular, the umpteenth count of damage to agriculture is also being made. "It is difficult to estimate the extent, but from an initial assessment it will exceed 1.5 billion on our territory," said the president of
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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. read more

According to statistics from ASOEX, the export of Chilean plums to China in 2022/23 will hit a record high of 55,000 tons. Plums, including prunes, have become the second largest Chilean fresh fruit exported to China after cherries. The Chilean stone fruit season is about to start. read more

Chile already has 110 hectares of Sweet Pekeetah plums, a variety developed in Chile from Japanese plums. This variety is grown in the Metropolitan, O’Higgins, and Maule regions, and has been successfully shipped to China, Taiwan, the US, and Brazil. China is its main destination with 92% of
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On the basis of Article 53 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has issued an emergency authorisation for the plant protection product Insegar. read more

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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Like pretty much the entire fruit and vegetable sector, the Balkan countries were also affected by the negative impact of the war, Anneliese Vollweiler, Managing Director of Anevo Trading GmbH, tells us. read more

The harvest of the earliest summer fruit varieties in the districts of la Costera and Vall d'Albaida is about to start and producers have confirmed that the plum has, once again, experienced a bad setting that will lead to a 70% decrease in its harvest, according to the first estimates. read more

Coldiretti Puglia, on the basis of the Ismea report, states that citrus fruit prices in Taranto have plummeted by 48%, with the rising cost of the shopping cart and climate change decimating the harvests, while consumers have cut their purchases of
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