Sweet pepper
"We make chipotle chili with a unique process in Europe"
2023-11-10 00:00
From Segovia, La Chipotlera has opened a differential gap in the fresh hot pepper and chili sauce segment. "La Chipotlera is the last step of our adventure in agriculture. We started as an organic-product orchard growing traditional vegetables, such as tomatoes, green beans, and sweet peppers,
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The Moroccan pepper industry is coming out of the bottleneck with crops finally available for export, reports Obeida Mansour, CEO of Universal Peppers.
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Mexican veggies cooperative aims to reach more US customers
2023-11-08 00:00
Bell peppers as football players, tomatoes listening to music, and surfing mini-sweet peppers are all part of the new veggie branding created by Produce Team LLC to appeal to children in the US to eat more vegetables. According to Diana Zamudio, regional sales associate of the Produce Team,
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Cucumber price shoots up at start of import season
2023-11-08 00:00
The steep fall in tomato prices slowed last week. The VBT average prices come out at over 1.08 euros for 1 kg of loose tomatoes and just under 1.40 euros for vine tomatoes. With that, prices are still above average and are also higher than in recent years in early November. The same goes for
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Sakata introduces Asem, a mid-cycle california pepper
2023-11-07 00:00
Asem, the latest launch of Sakata in Almeria, arrives on the market to meet the needs of the grower of medium-early cycle California peppers, offering a plant with good vigour that produces heavy, high quality fruit, even in soils that are not very fertile.
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Roma tomatoes, cilantro, baby carrots and cucumbers well advertised
2023-11-06 00:00
Seasonal favorites like pomegranates, persimmons, cranberries, sweet potatoes, pineapples, potatoes, carrots, and celery were front and center. As were football party staples such as avocados, jalapeno and serrano peppers, onions, Roma tomatoes, cilantro, baby carrots, and cucumbers were well
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"We're combating unhealthy snacks with seedless snack bell peppers"
2023-11-02 00:00
The snack segment has been gaining popularity in Belgium, too, in recent years. Life is moving faster, and people are busier, so convenience reigns supreme. To compete with chocolate bars or potato chips, the fruit and vegetable sector is always looking for ways to keep consumers away from
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Spanish F&V exports drop
2023-11-01 08:00
The decrease in volume was particularly marked for fruits (-11.5%), according to Fepex data. The drop in the vegetable category was smaller (-2.7%) to 3.4 million tons.
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'Dutch, Belgian and Polish bell peppers dropped in price'
2023-11-01 00:00
Spanish bell pepper deliveries increased in German markets. However, inconsistent quality made pricing quite difficult at points. The increased availability of Spanish goods had a negative impact on the prices of their competitors: according to the BLE, Dutch, Belgian and Polish goods often
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A box filler with excellent disease resistance
2023-11-01 00:00
Seed company Enza Zaden has recently introduced a new pepper to growers in both openland conditions and under net, a variety called Triology.
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"This season, our lit cultivation was back at half the pre-high energy price level"
2023-10-30 00:00
The Dutch greenhouse vegetable season is nearing its end. Thus, time to reflect with Oxin Growers' commercial director, Ton van Dalen. "Bell pepper, tomato, and eggplant prices were good, but, unfortunately, cucumber prices were much lower than last year," he begins.
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New 'Abraham' Kefren F1 and Serket F1 from HM.Clause
2023-10-27 00:00
HM.Clause's California pepper catalogue has been expanded with two new varieties. They are Kefren F1 and Serket F1. The seed company has shown them from yesterday until today in a field conference held in Dalías.
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Syngenta's novelties, Norris and Arconte, debut in Berja
2023-10-27 00:00
Syngenta continues with its calendar of field days to promote its new varieties of California, Arconte and Norris peppers among growers and technicians. After the days held in El Ejido a few days ago, this week it was the turn of Berja.
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Germany's purchases of Turkish peppers plummet
2023-10-26 00:00
Data from the statistical service Euroestacom (Icex-Eurostat) analyzed by Hortoinfo reveal that Germany's imports of Turkish peppers have registered a sharp reduction over the last three campaigns.
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The Belgian greenhouse vegetable season is slowly coming to an end. The switch to lit cultivation is underway, so volumes are generally slightly lower these weeks. "We're now in bell pepper, zucchini, and eggplant's last weeks. The large cucumber volumes are also gone. Like tomatoes, we'll
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"Tight availability of bell peppers suitable for Japan was this year's biggest challenge"
2023-10-24 00:00
New Green Overseas will end its export season of Dutch bell peppers to Japan next week. Last year, high air freight rates caused minimal exports; this year, that restriction came from a different angle. "In September, there were hardly any bell peppers available, and they were very expensive, so
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Morocco conquering German market with its sweet peppers
2023-10-23 00:00
Morocco increases its exports of sweet peppers to all important destinations, including Germany, reports EastFruit. For several seasons in a row, Morocco has been increasing sweet pepper exports to Germany by 10-20% annually. In the MY 2022/23 (July-June), a record volume of Moroccan bell
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Koppert tests more aggressive insects against the imminent entry of the new breed of green aphids
2023-10-23 00:00
A new biological race of the green aphid or peach aphid, Myzus persicae, has become a real challenge for European pepper growers. Since this new race was detected in 2021 in northern Europe, Koppert has found that it is a race more
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New bell pepper variety that stands out "for its size and capacity to set with heat"
2023-10-23 00:00
Sakata has presented its new early red bell pepper variety: Checo, which comes to improve and expand its range. It is the first variety with a complete pack of resistances that, in addition to including intermediate resistance to powdery mildew, is also resistant to nematodes. The Checo's strong
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