Tomatoes

It is now well established how fundamental segmentation is to creating value in product categories, but in fruit and vegetables it is by no means easy to transfer segmentation criteria to the end consumer, and the case of tomatoes is emblematic. From cross-analysis, between public
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Tomato Excellent, the contest that focuses on Sicilian fruit and vegetable specialties, is back. Now in its fourth edition, the award invented by the event's patron, Rosario Sallemi, was held in Ragusa at the Donnafugata Castle, a location that perfectly combines the themes of agriculture with
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Special gift for three Spanish national team players from the same town, Los Palacios y Villafranca. Gavi, Fabian Ruiz and Jesus Navas were presented with crates of tomatoes from the small Andalusian municipality. read more

Prospects and opportunities for cluster tomatoes in Sicily. This is the title of the meeting promoted by Cora Seeds, reserved for a group of selected Sicilian producers, that the seed company is organising on Thursday 29 June at the Poggio del Sole Hotel in Ragusa. It will analyse
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A report prepared by Hortoinfo with data from the EuroStacom statistical services (ICEX-Eurostat) reveals that 31% of the tomatoes sold in the first quarter of the year in the EU came from Morocco and that the tomatoes from Spain only accounted for 25% of the tomatoes sold in the EU in that
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One of the first companies to have experimented with out-of-soil production in Italy is Agricola Anzola di Boretto, in the province of Reggio Emilia.The company started growing tomatoes out of soil in 1999, in particular Cuore di Bue, to which in recent years they have also added a small
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At Mother Dairy's Safal outlets, tomato prices have gone up by nearly 100% in the past week. The Delhi-NCR market has over 300 Safal stores. The price spike follows rain-induced supply disruptions in key tomato producing states. Top quality tomatoes at Safal store I were being retailed at
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In the panorama of oblong tomatoes for green and red harvest, Kws Vegetables' Navigante F1 plays a leading role thanks to its special features: as the growers also testify, it is an early fruit with excellent production capacity throughout the cycle. read more

Tomatoes are the undisputed advertising kings. They are by far the most frequently advertised by German food retailers. The great variety in the tomato assortment, from small-fruited tomatoes to standard truss tomatoes, is the main reason for this high level of advertising.
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After a participation at Macfruttutta focused on tomatoes - with the presentation of the new ToBRFV-resistant range and the high-flavour line Euphoria - Cora Seedscontinues on its path to enhance the species. "Prospects and opportunities for the cluster tomato in
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Summer heat and unseasonal rains have affected the production of tomatoes and other vegetables in Tamil Nadu. This has led to an alarming rise in the prices of staple veggies in the state. On Monday, tomato prices touched Rs 100 per kg-mark in retail markets and the price of beans hit an
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After 6 years of hard work and more than 30 revised versions of the specifications, 3 tomato varieties grown in France have been benefiting from the coveted Red Label since the end of May. read more

Between January and April 2023, US tomato imports from Mexico were worth $1.086 billion, i.e., 25.9 percent more than in the first four months of 2022, according to data from the Commerce Department. read more

Back in 2018, a new variety of snacking tomatoes, Sweetpops, was launched. The variety is exclusively grown in Red Sun Farms' high-tech greenhouses in Central Mexico. "They are cultivated year-round at our state-of-the-art facility," says Harold Paivarinta with Red Sun Farms. "The ideal
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Looye Kwekers' Honing tomatoes have become a staple in the German greengrocer Ten Eicken's standard assortment. "We've had them in our range for over seven years now, and sales rise yearly," says Miriam Ten Eicken. "Remarkably, everyone, young and old, loves them. They're especially popular as
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Moroccan tomatoes are becoming increasingly popular in the European Union. For the first time last year, Morocco overtook Spain as the largest tomato supplier in the European Union, with only Netherlands exporting more. What’s next for Morocco? read more

In the tomato greenhouses of northern Italy, TSWV (Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus) is the number one enemy of growers (followed closely by Tuta absoluta) as it threatens to compromise the entire harvest. Containment strategies can be adopted with the lepidoptera,
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The first publications on the new impact assessment of the EU regulation on the sustainable use of plant protection products (SUR) bring a surprise, according to the Zentralverband Gartenbau e.V. (ZVG): SUR has no impact on food security, it says. But it shows with
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The application of CRISPR gene editing has boomed in recent years, and now the humble tomato is no stranger to the CRISPR toolbox anymore either. In 2021, genome-edited tomatoes enriched in γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) were commercially launched in Japan by Sanatech Seed. read more

The recent request by the Florida Tomato Exchange (FTE) asking the Department of Commerce to withdraw from the 2019 Tomato Suspension Agreement jeopardizes the availability of the variety of tomatoes that U.S consumers expect at prices they can afford and would harm U.S. businesses says the
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