Beans
'Possible impact on tomatoes and bush beans'
2023-09-14 00:00
Many small communities in Morocco's Atlas Mountains are completely destroyed. Survivors are burying their loved ones or clearing rubble to recover more bodies. At least 70 people have died in the mountain village of Imi N'Tala. The total death toll has risen to more than 2,800. The agricultural
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“Kale is my Coca-Cola”
2023-09-13 00:00
When Covid hit, Alex Maseko remembered his lifelong passion for leafy vegetables. In the KwaZulu-Natal town of Peacevale he set to planting vegetables, trialling many but settling on what has become his speciality: kale.
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Revolutionary grading systems effective against weeds
2023-09-12 00:00
It is commonplace to harvest toxic weeds such as chokecherry and nightshade alongside crops like green beans and baby spinach, with the risk of them making their way into the final product. However, advanced sorting technology is changing the rules of the game. Jacob
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Farmers in the eastern Coachella Valley continue to assess the damage to their farms after last week’s storm brought heavy rain and flooding. For instance, there is Desert Mist Farms, cultivating red and green bell peppers, green beans, and white corn in the fall. It is headquartered in
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Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance wins Africa Food Prize 2023
2023-09-08 00:00
The Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance (PABRA) has been honored with the prestigious Africa Food Prize for 2023, recognizing their exceptional leadership in the development of numerous bean varieties that improve farm productivity and profitability, and meet increasing consumer demand. The
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Maersk strengthens offering with two new fulfillment centers in Central America and the Caribbean
2023-09-06 00:00
A.P. Moller - Maersk strengthens its presence in Latin America and the Caribbean with the inauguration of a 14,000 sqm fulfillment center in Colombia and a 3,500 sqm fulfillment center in Panama, offering greater connectivity to customers and simplifying their supply chains.
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In the summer, local European production usually slows the import of delicate vegetables like snow peas, sugar snaps, haricots verts, peas, and dwarf and French beans. "Sales are picking up now that the vacations are over again," says Pepijn de Koning of FV Seleqt.
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Volumes and quality for the Coco de Paimpol PDO
2023-08-30 00:00
In Brittany, the Coco de Paimpol season is in full swing. “The season began in mid-July, with the first beans arriving in relatively limited volumes until mid-August, and then increasing at the end of August/beginning of September, which is the heart of the campaign. We are now at the height
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What are the prices of broad beans in mid-August? Current market situation [16.08.2023].
2023-08-16 00:00
As we mentioned in a recent article, the broad bean season is coming to an end. The vegetable has become a delicacy commodity. The supply is getting lower by the day, while the prices obtained by the producers are climbing.
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PGRO launches new podcast
2023-08-02 16:00
The Processors and Growers Research Organisation (PGRO) has launched a new podcast targeted at the UK’s pea and bean sector.
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Events of interest to the agricultural sector under the Spanish presidency of the EU
2023-07-27 00:00
The agenda of events covers all types of policies, starting with those linked to the environment and energy, which were discussed this week at informal ministerial meetings in Valladolid.
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Annual inflation in Bulgaria drops below 10%
2023-07-18 00:00
Inflation in Bulgaria decreased to 8.7 percent in June, compared to a year earlier; a deflation of minus 0.4 percent was reported. This means that prices decreased compared to the month of May. This is the second time this has happened since the beginning of this year.
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Freshippo has opened its biggest supply chain center in Shanghai
2023-07-11 00:00
Ocado launches first robotic warehouse in Asia with Aeon
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“Producers can already place orders to acquire the only banana plant variety tolerant to Foc TR4”
2023-07-10 00:00
Formosona-218 is currently the only somaclonal variant of the Cavendish banana that has a very high tolerance to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense Tropical Race 4, the greatest threat to the world's banana industry; and Galiltec, which has the exclusive rights for the production and marketing of
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'Green beans, complicated but promising start'
2023-07-05 00:00
The green bean campaign has started about ten days late in the Piacenza area, where Riverfrut, the Rivergaro-based farm that has made this vegetable its core business for over 40 years, dedicating over 600 hectares of land to the reference in the period
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"Brazil, Central America and the Caribbean could be key markets for our Spanish garlic this year"
2023-07-04 00:00
"This year, the work and effort of our producers in Spain have again gone to waste at the beginning of the garlic campaign, in the months of May and June. A big squall remained in the Iberian Peninsula for more than 20 days and brought heavy storms and a lot of rainfall that has affected more
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Summer heat and unseasonal rains have affected the production of tomatoes and other vegetables in Tamil Nadu. This has led to an alarming rise in the prices of staple veggies in the state. On Monday, tomato prices touched Rs 100 per kg-mark in retail markets and the price of beans hit an
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Green beans, we promote them with our recipes
2023-06-27 00:00
Among the favourite summer vegetables are green beans, which form the basis of so many recipes both au naturel and seasoned. To make the product even more practical, Annaturalo offers it in a pre-cooked version. The vegetable, which can be bought at the refrigerated counter of the
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"Dwarf beans have become more popular recently"
2023-06-20 00:00
Yesterday, Kamps harvested its first dwarf beans, thus kicking off the new Dutch season. "These will go to all our local, national, and international customers year-round again," says Niels Borst, responsible for sales in the Benelux.
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Hand-picked green beans from Mexico available year-round
2023-06-02 00:00
While Peakopia brings many different fruit and vegetable varieties to market, green beans are the company’s main product. “We offer two types, light and dark, and they are grown year-round in three different regions of Mexico. We’ve been working with the same grower for years,” says
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