Cucumbers

According to a study by ASAJA-Almería, the Spanish province will see a 25% contraction in its outdoor watermelon production area. The reduction is due to a combination of the extended autumn productions of peppers, cucumbers, aubergines and courgettes until later in the year due to
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Farmers have been handed 11.5 million seedlings in the quake-hit Şahinbey district of Gaziantep province in southern Turkey. According to Daily Sabah, the move is part of a project to promote sustainability in agriculture. The plants, including tomatoes, peppers, aubergines, melons,
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Kompany, in collaboration with ZON, has decided to offer cucumbers via weekly mediation from next Monday, April 24. "With this, we are making weekly sales accessible to a wider audience. This offers several advantages for the buyer. For instance, there is a choice of packaging, day of loading,
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“We’re the third largest grower-packer of pickles in North America and it’s something we’re proud of,” says Carmen Bartucci with CanAm Fresh. While the company mainly serves the processing industry at the moment, it is looking to get more exposure to the fresh market category. “We
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During a rally that was held yesterday in Denizli province, Turkish president Erdoğan has denied there is an ‘expensive onion, potato or cucumber problem’ in the country. The president argued that there is no problem with the rising cost of living in the country. read more

A decade into its thriving collaboration, Oppy celebrates its partnership with British Columbia-based greenhouse pepper and cucumber grower Randhawa Farms, owners of the Perpetual Vegetable Co. brand. read more

Farmers have been handed 11.5 million seedlings in the quake-hit Şahinbey district of Gaziantep province in southern Turkey. This is part of a project to promote sustainability in agriculture. The plants, including tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, melons, watermelons, cucumbers, wheat, barley,
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According to East-fruit, Morocco's greenhouse cucumber exports have been on the rise since 2017 and in the last three years, local exporters have managed to break the record every year. As a result, Moroccan growers supplied 20,000 tonnes of cucumbers from Morocco in 2017.
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March was a dark month in the Netherlands, so the tomato and bell pepper supply got going particularly late. Cucumber and eggplant growers have been in production for some time. Commercial director Ton van Dalen of Oxin Growers takes stock. read more

At 1.8 million tons, the gross greenhouse vegetable yields in the Netherlands were 7.9% lower in 2022 than a year before. read more

Morocco, as one of the world’s leading exporters of high-quality fresh fruits and vegetables, remains the focus of EastFruit. Over the past three years, the country has been annually updating the record for greenhouse cucumber exports. read more

Morocco, as one of the world’s leading exporters of high-quality fresh fruits and vegetables, remains the focus of EastFruit. Over the past three years, the country has been annually updating the record for greenhouse cucumber exports. read more

For weeks there was a shortage of cucumbers at the German wholesale markets. In the meantime, the supply has recovered and, in addition to Spanish goods, sufficient cucumbers from the Benelux region and Germany are available. read more

The spring crop of slicing cucumbers has started out in northern Mexico. “Production has been a bit on the slow side due to cooler weather and that has not helped in terms of availability or sizing,” says Raquel Espinoza of Produce House. “However now we’re seeing that it’s starting to
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The latest video in Rijk Zwaan’s ‘The future is sky’ series features the Canadian grower, Foothill Greenhouses. In the video, the two companies discuss their partnership and Foothill’s experiences with its main cucumber variety for summer, Verdon RZ. read more

Belgian cooperatives seem to increasingly be experiencing an acreage shift. This season, due to virus pressure and high energy prices, more and more of both Coöperatie Hoogstraten and BelOrta growers are opting for 'easier' or less risky options. So, both associations' specialty tomatoes'
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Traditionally, the country has supplied vegetables to Russia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. In January 2023, potato exports increased by 28.4 times and amounted to 19.8 thousand tons compared to the same period in 2022. Uzbekistan became the largest buyer, with 18.9
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Before the Easter holidays, Ukrainian greenhouse plants once again increase selling prices for cucumbers, EastFruit project analysts report. In addition to the pre-holiday rush, prices in this segment are kept up by the slowing down of cucumber ripening in most greenhouses due to cloudy weather
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Cucumbers from Germany and Central Europe are now flooding into the market. But harvest volumes developed sluggishly in 2023. Limited supply volumes, high prices and the cool weather in southern Spain caused a significant slump in the past weeks
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Another increase in the price of greenhouse cucumbers has been recorded in Ukraine this week, according to EastFruit project analysts. The price rise is due to the increased demand for cucumbers given against a rather limited supply. Over the past week, the harvest of cucumbers in greenhouses
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