Sweet pepper
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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"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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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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"We have been getting Spanish bell peppers for a few weeks now, quality and volumes are good"
2023-11-22 00:00
The Spanish bell pepper import season has started at VitaFresh Produce, the first red, green and yellow bell peppers arrived at the start of November.
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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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Strawberries are increasingly a greenhouse crop
2023-11-21 00:00
Strawberry farming has noticeably shifted from open to covered cultivation in recent years. Along with tomatoes, bell peppers, and cucumbers, strawberries are now a fully-fledged greenhouse crop. There are notable expansion projects with high-tech glass greenhouses. For several reasons, that is,
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The beginning of November marked the change of season for Früchte Eder Ltd from Kirchham/Tutting with peppers from Spain, which they had previously sourced from Belgium and the Netherlands. "The quality is still very good, as the plants are still quite young. They are greenhouse produce from
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With the arrival of the last tomatoes and sweet peppers from northern German production, the domestic fruit vegetable season is now nearing its end. "The quality of the last few trains was actually quite good. Sales were also quite pleasing throughout the entire campaign, although marketing is
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Viruses create "severe problems" in Almeria's greenhouses
2023-11-20 00:00
The Coordinadora de Organizaciones Agrarias y Ganaderas, COAG, de Almería, warns about the severe pest problems that, in the form of viruses, especially in crops such as tomato, courgette and pepper, are occurring in the current season.
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HM.Clause introduces two new California with resistors
2023-11-17 00:00
HM.Clause's California pepper catalogue is growing year after year and, this season, it has already added three new materials, all of which are resistant to powdery mildew and nematodes.
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The Spanish greenhouse vegetable season's start has, in the past, sometimes been less promising. "Considering, say, bell peppers, given that the Netherlands was on the market until two weeks ago, those prices have been good," begins Marco Romein of Agrogestion Alboran.
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Morocco increased its pepper exports in 2022
2023-11-16 00:00
An analysis carried out by Hortoinfo reveals that, in 2022, Moroccan pepper exports reached 166.9 million kilos, growing by 4.43% over the previous year and by 80.8% in the last 10 years.
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The season is over for most of Harvest House's bell pepper growers. "It was an extraordinary one that started later than we've become accustomed to in recent years. That was because of the higher energy cost with many growers, thus deciding to cultivate differently. For example, some growers
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Strawberry and cucumber prices continue to rise
2023-11-15 00:00
With the first cucumbers grown under lights on the market, the cucumber price continued to rise. The VBT average price for week 45 came to 81.7 euro cents each. A price almost twice the five-year average. Tomato and pepper prices are also above that five-year average, although here, there has
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Almería: Increased quantities of peppers
2023-11-13 11:00
In week 45/23, italiano green peppers fetched 1.20 euro/kg to 0.80 euro/kg, italiano red peppers averaged 1.60 euro/kg, lamuyo peppers 1.70 euro/kg to 1.40 euro/kg, lamuyo green peppers 1.20 euro/kg to 1 euro/kg, california green peppers 0.95 euro/kg to 0.80 euro/kg, california red peppers 1.70 euro/kg to
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Reasonable" prices and stability in the Almeria horticultural season
2023-11-13 00:00
After the first few months of the vegetable season under shelter in the province of Almeria, ASAJA Almeria has made its first assessment of the state of the crop. "As ASAJA Almeria has already anticipated with the forecast for the season, the stabilisation of the pepper area has been consolidated,
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Russia: Inspectors stops ToBRFV-infected tomatoes coming from China
2023-11-10 00:00
The Primorye Interregional Office of Rosselkhoznadzor successfully stopped the import of a 6.7-ton batch of tomatoes from China. This action was taken because a quarantine object, the Tomato brown rugose fruit virus, was found in the products.
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South Korea, robot confuses a worker with a box of peppers
2023-11-10 00:00
The drama unfolded in a distribution centre for agricultural products in Gyeongsang, South Korea.
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