Sweet pepper
The Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority keeps a register of companies and inspection sites that are permitted to export tomatoes and bell peppers to the United States. These companies meet the requirements set by the United States. A list published on December 6 spans two pages. It
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Both the Spanish and Israeli bell pepper seasons are in full swing at the Dutch company Gilad Produce. "The war means there are fewer flights available from Israel. There's also a shortage of workers to harvest and pack all the bell peppers, but we're still receiving the necessary volumes," says
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Chocolate peppers hit supermarket shelves
2023-12-12 00:00
Australian agronomist and plant breeder Levon Cookson has spent the last five years breeding a brand new 'chocolate pepper'. It is now making its way onto supermarket shelves.
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Bell pepper processing line automated using vision technology, robotics, and deep learning
2023-12-12 00:00
"No people work on our bell pepper line anymore," begins Machiel Honig, co-owner of ZTI Smart Machines. This Dutch company develops machines for different sectors, including fruit and vegetable processing. "It tips over crates of bell peppers that are eventually processed into half of quartered,
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Sweet Palermo, in the Piana di Fondi the season of consecration
2023-12-12 00:00
An exciting season is unfolding in the Piana di Fondi for the Sweet Palermo pepper, the result of research work by Rijk Zwaan. Luca Peppe, president of the Agripeppe cooperative, describes the moment for this unique pepper to IFN.
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Ukraine hopes for growth in pepper production
2023-12-07 00:00
Preliminary data on the pepper crop in Ukraine for 2023 predict a 20% increase in the harvest. In particular, sweet pepper production is starting to develop.<br /><br /><br />
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“Rather than looking for new candidates to eliminate Parvispinus, we have developed a strategy that is yielding results”
2023-12-07 00:00
In 2005-2006, there was a big problem in Almeria with the control of Frankinela in bell pepper crops. "Some growers, desperate because they could not find any way to combat it, because it had developed resistance to every authorized active material, began to use unauthorized products," said Ana
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Challenges and growth: Ukraine's pepper market dynamics
2023-12-06 00:00
Agricultural products, especially peppers, play a vital role in Ukraine's food market.
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New machine automates weighing and banding
2023-12-05 00:00
With the automatic weighing and banding machine by Freshtech Solutions, the entire production process of weighing, bundling, and banding is automated in one machine. This is suitable for packaging various products such as zucchini, pointed pepper, leek, asparagus, carrot, and rhubarb.
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As the New Year approaches, the prices of some vegetables are expected to rise by almost a quarter, with cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, aubergines, and berries experiencing the highest increase. The anticipated 25% cost surge for greenhouse plants is based on Rosstat's analysis. Over the last
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Spain: Andalusian greenhouse crops, on the verge of full production
2023-12-01 00:00
The Agricultural and Fisheries Information Service of the Junta de Andalucía, Spain, published a report on the phenological status of greenhouse crops in the region during the past week.
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The seed company HM.CLAUSE has presented a great novelty in its pepper portfolio, its first variety of lamuyo. It is called Gardel F1, and with it they are inaugurating a new line in their offer that also represents a differential point. Gardel F1 provides resistance to powdery mildew and is included in the range,
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Spanish vegetables in the grip of virosis
2023-11-30 00:00
Serious forms of virosis are affecting vegetable production in Almeria, Spain. Denouncing the situation is the Iberian agricultural association Coag Almeria itself, which speaks of heavy damage on tomatoes, courgettes and peppers.
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Manter International B.V., a manufacturer of weighing and packaging solutions, IMA Ilapak Italia and IMA Record, with their high-end packaging machinery, and both part of IMA Group’s FLX HUB, have officially joined forces in a strategic partnership. It will focus on fresh fruit and vegetables
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"Delayed bell pepper plantings this season could lead to less watermelon being planted in spring"
2023-11-27 00:00
We are currently in the middle of the vegetable season in Almeria, but the watermelon planting is going to start in some areas of Almeria in just a matter of weeks, and those plantings will determine the size of the supply which will start reaching the European markets in mid-April.
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Canada winding down bell pepper production soon
2023-11-27 00:00
At the moment, the greenhouse supply of bell peppers is normal for this time of year. “The supply is also comparable to last year with a slight few more around,” says Ray Mastronardi, VP of Sales, DelFrescoPure®.
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GLOBAL MARKET OVERVIEW PEPPERS
2023-11-24 00:00
The pepper market finds itself in different phases across the globe at the moment. In the Netherlands, prices are high due to the end of the domestic season, whilst in the UK demand for imported Spanish peppers is good. The French market is currently experiencing oversupply, due to the late of
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Blumen Vegetables Seeds innovates the Neapolitan friggitello ecotype
2023-11-24 00:00
Enhancing local ecotypes has always been an objective of the seed company Blumen Vegetables Seeds (click here to read more). This time the company's research, in the person of breeder Mariano Giannone, has turned to the pepper segment, for which the local ecotype has been innovated
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Bell pepper volume starting to increase again
2023-11-22 00:00
The supply of bell peppers is limited right now but that is changing. “The first harvest from West Mexico was delayed by rains but is beginning to show now and will increase over the next four to six weeks,” says Doug Johnson, senior vice president, sales for PennRose Farms, LLC. “The
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Generally, for the market of a fruit and vegetable product, a season is never the same as the previous one; unfortunately or fortunately, some would say. For example, Sicilian pepper producers would have hoped for another production and commercial campaign equal to the
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