"In the processing hall, there were four large tables with 14 women at each table manually processing vegetables: bunching, leaf picking, and cutting the products to size. Thanks to the processing line, the grower can now manage with fewer workers, and the product is much more uniform, making it
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The Brazilian fruit industry relished last week's informal gathering by way of a barbeque with the country's President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva and vice president and key ministers. According to Luiz Roberto Barcelos, Abrafrutas director and known as the Brazil's 'Melon King' "Last Tuesday we
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In a recent LinkIn post, TFC Holland spoke about their delivery of pomelos without additional packaging. The post read: Since 2019, TFC Holland B.V. has been delivering red and white pomelos to its customers without additional packaging. This allows for saving between around 25 and 53 grams of
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Montague harvested a small quantity of Kissabel apples for the first time in March as part of the global Ifoed campaign.  read more

The main producer supplying the European market at this time of the year is Brazil, with smaller supplies from Peru, Colombia and Vietnam. For the USA, as always, the dominant player is Mexico with complimentary volumes from Central America primarily Guatemala and Honduras. "Colombia is ramping
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Zimbabwe and Brazil have reached an agreement that will see the latter benefit immensely from agricultural exports from the African country. Speaking soon after the first [political consultation meeting between the two countries in Harare yesterday, Secretary for Africa and the Middle East in the… read more

Benary has added Anthony Cornaccia as a Area Sales Manager to the Central US region.Anthony holds a Bachelor's degree in Horticultural Science from Michigan State University. After graduation, he started his career at Neal Mast Greenhouses/Mast Young Plants, where he focused his efforts on
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Saskatchewan employer Sunterra Horticulture (Canada) Inc. has been fined $70,000 after one worker was seriously injured while conducting work in the line of horticulture. The incident happened on September 16, 2021, near Hyas, Sask. A worker was seriously injured while attempting to dislodge a
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Nutrano Produce Group has announced the debut of a new Farm Patch seedless lemon prepack offer in response to consumer demand for the product. read more

For more than two decades, US supermarket chain Trader Joe’s has sold individual bananas for just 19 cents each. read more

As cultivation with waste heat from biogas plants or power stations is very costly, only a few asparagus growers practise it. The supply of this early asparagus is correspondingly low and expensive. However, this is likely to change now that the starting signal has been given for the first
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South Africa’s pomegranate industry has a good future, but there are also some challenges that the business needs to overcome in order to make an impact on export markets. read more

Karakuta, located in Juja, Kiambu County, 45 minutes from the capital city of Nairobi, is one of the fastest growing agribusinesses in Kenya, specialised in Hass avocados, as well as fresh herbs. The plantation consists of 15,000, five-year old avocado trees, fully irrigated, with the fruit sold
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Take-home grocery sales rose by 4.6 per cent over the four weeks to 17 March, with an early Easter boosting sales of seasonal treats in the first three months of 2024 by £88 million compared with the same period last year, according to the latest supermarket data from analytics company Kantar. read more

Aldi expects to extend its support of those in need this Easter by donating more than half a million meals during the school holidays. read more

The Fairtrade Foundation is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Fairtrade Mark in the UK this year with a series of special events and campaigns. read more

The president of the Inform@cción consultancy, Fernando Cillóniz Benavides, pointed out that this decline was due to climatic phenomena such as Cyclone Yaku (which hit in March and April 2023), which hit the northern coastal regions such as Piura, Lambayeque and
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Excess offer and low profitability have led to a significant decline in lemon acreage in the Argentine province of Tucumán this year. read more

It has been reported that Perry Dekkers is to leave his role as commercial director of Growers United in the Netherlands. read more

While the bunching onions are all grown outdoors, the first red and green harbingers of spring in the new season are currently still being harvested in protected cultivation. The harvest of radishes grown outdoors will start before Easter. Matching the appetite of radish fans
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