Sweet pepper

Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC) is building a greenhouse facility in San Rafael, Batangas, this is the company's first involvement in the vegetable sector.  read more

North London supermarkets are being particularly hard hit by a nationwide shortages of fresh vegetables. read more

Greenhouse vegetable prices are skyrocketing. "Bell peppers, zucchini, eggplant, tomato, cucumber. You name it, everything's expensive," says Geert Baecke of Tino's Fruit in Belgium. "We're anxiously awaiting Dutch and Belgian trade, but it's going to be a big problem getting products in the
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The European Patent Office (EPO) has rejected the opposition against a patent of the company Syngenta (Chemchina) on conventionally bred peppers (EP2140023). In 2013, Syngenta had applied for a patent on the genetic trait of plants originally from Jamaica.
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In Europe, greenhouse vegetable prices are reaching great heights. "Unbelievably, bell peppers currently cost more than green asparagus. Wednesday, Feb. 15, bell pepper prices even broke through the magic €30 mark. Monday, Feb. 13, that was still €25 to €26," says Ruud Zwinkels of EFP
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Spanish sweet peppers had a firm grip on the market but were unable to meet the demand to the full extent. Turkish imports followed in importance, but they were completely absent in Cologne. Italian lots were available exclusively in Frankfurt, where they were briskly sold -red and yellow- at
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The Almerian source markets are again surprising this season. Prices continue to experience great ups and downs. An example of this is the strong price increase for peppers california and peppers lamuyo red, for which more than three euros/kg were paid in week 6. February
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Prices for fruit and vegetables, especially cauliflower, are growing in general. For oranges, demand is still for red-fleshed varieties. The availability of purple Romanesco artichokes is increasing. Quotations for peppers, especially Sicilian ones, are also on the rise. Cold and costs
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Together with the strawberry, the PGI Senise pepper is a characteristic product of the local heritage of the region of Basilicata; both of them generate quite high yields for farmers compared to other fruit and vegetables grown in the same region. However, until ten years ago, there were only a
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"Unbelievable, these prices. We've been in business for a few years now, so we've naturally seen occasional outliers, but prices have been outlandish for days," says Pieter de Ruiter of 4Fruit Company in the Netherlands. "I don't see the market situation changing any time soon either. There's
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The new snack pepper brand Tatayoyo has won the Fruit Logistica Innovation Award 2023! The Dutch vegetable breeding company Rijk Zwaan is extremely honored by this recognition of fresh produce professionals’ enthusiasm for Tatayoyo. This unique, ready-to-eat pepper with bursting flavors is one
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The winner of this year's Innovation Award is a pepper from Rijk Zwaan in the Netherlands marketed under the brand name Tatayoyo. The pepper has a distinctive and strong taste that originates from wild peppers. With its pod of medium size between a pepper and a
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Rijk Zwaan’s Tatayoyo pepper has beaten off stiff competition from nine other leading fresh produce innovations to win the Fruit Logistica Innovation Award 2023. read more

Tatayoyo, the intensely flavoured and distinctive pepper from Rijk Zwaan, has won the Fruit Logistica Innovation Award for the best innovation in the international fruit and vegetable trade. Intermediate in size between normal-sized and snack fruits, the distinctive flavour comes from
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After two days of voting during FRUIT LOGISTICA, the votes have been counted and the winner has been decided: this year, the FRUIT LOGISTICA Innovation Award (FLIA) goes to Tatayoyo from Rijk Zwaan. With 26% of the votes, the pepper is the winner in the competition for the best innovation
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A tropical adventure with flavor, that's what the pepper brand Tatayoyo is all about. Rijk Zwaan is very proud that this snack pepper has been nominated for the Fruit Logistica Innovation Award 2023. They asked their chain partners and colleagues: What makes Tatayoyo so unique? And how is this
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Tatayoyo is the brand name for peppers with a distinctive and strong flavour. read more

The weather-related shortage of vegetables is also affecting the pepper market. Prices for primarily Spanish and Moroccan products in the German wholesale trade are at a high level. read more

Tesco, the UK’s biggest retailer, is no longer stocking yellow peppers after supply challenges caused by warmer weather abroad, followed by cold snaps. The majority of Tesco’s stores are out of stock and it is impossible to buy yellow peppers online from Tesco. As an alternative, Tesco is
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Apofruit Italia, with its Group companies Canova and Mediterraneo Group, will be at Fruit Logistica where it will display the cooperative's main novelties in a large exhibition space (Hall 2.2 stand A-40). The Group is also a partner in the Violì artichoke and Sunions onion Mini pepper projects
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