The Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters Association made a significant appearance at the Berlin Fruit Logistica Fair, showcasing Turkish delicacies alongside 54 Turkish companies. The fair, a global hub for the food industry, featured a comprehensive range of services from seed
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Sales of the 2023 harvest have ended at Il Noceto. "This year we endured considerable losses due to the hail storms, however we have progressed in both the MOF and big retail chain channels," explains director Michele Sciannimanica. read more

Agea's first Annual Performance Report(APR 2023), a document that reflects and reports on the intense activity carried out by the Agency in the framework of the first year of the CAP 2023- 2027 programming cycle, has been considered admissible by the European Commission; read more

Investing in quality always brings the right results, especially in terms of customer loyalty and increased market share. This is what is happening with Sweet Palermo, the pepper from the Rijk Zwaan seed company, produced and distributed by the Fondana cooperative
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Drewry Supply Chain Advisors, the ocean freight cost benchmarking and procurement support division of Drewry Shipping Consultants, is pleased to announce the launch of an interactive, online version of its Container Capacity Insight (CCI) service to subscribers via Drewry's Container Freight Portal. read more

Hundreds of tractors and over a thousand individuals are set to take part in the protests called for this Thursday at 10:30 AM at the Port of Valencia by all agricultural organizations of the Region of Valencia (AVA-ASAJA, ASAJA Alicante, LA UNIÓ Llauradora i Ramadera, CCPV-COAG and
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There's widespread optimism in the Dutch and Belgian apple market. "And rightly so, as prices for both apples and pears are decent," says Emanuel Sluis from the Dutch Trading Platform Service2Fruit. "For instance, top-quality Elstar apples are fetching up to €0.90 per crate. These apples are,
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Takii held the Next-Gen Brassicas Days at its experimental centre in Torre-Pacheco. A meeting point where professionals from the different links in the chain came to learn first-hand about its new products. read more

The situation for Sicilian citrus growers is complex, as they continue to suffer from a prolonged drought that is not helping the already precarious commercial situation. Pietro Russo, a long-time citrus grower from Lentini (SR), discusses the situation and takes stock of the current season. read more

The Ecuadorian banana industry is relieved that sense prevailed in last week's ban from Russia. Now they can focus on more pressing challenges such as the effect of the recent heavy rains on the banana plantations and 'unconventional' market demand, says Hugo Castro, sales manager of Hugo Fruit.
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Zespri has released its final forecast for the 2023/24 season with record per tray returns forecast for Green, Organic Green, SunGold and RubyRed Kiwifruit. read more

Last year saw major investment decisions that are contributing to making the port and the logistics chain to and from Rotterdam more sustainable. The financial results were stable, putting the Port Authority in a position to commit to further investments for a future-resilient port in the years
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The Minister of Agriculture, José Luis Aguirre, expressed his concern in Les Corts about the increase in European imports of Egyptian oranges. In January, 45,000 of the 51,000 tons of oranges that the EU imported came from Egypt, a 104% increase over the previous year, due to the decrease in
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The product of a decade’s research from Morocco’s Les Domaines Agricoles, the brand-new SweetCott mandarin was launched at this month’s Fruit Logistica in Berlin, marketed as the “birth of a new legend” in the category. read more

In our cultivated landscape, only a few meadows and fields are completely dark at night. In addition to street lights, passing vehicles also bring light pollution into these ecosystems at night. While many other animals sleep, earthworms wriggle out of their burrows at night to wait for
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The UK will launch a new annual Food Security Index to monitor the nation’s self-sufficiency in food production, the Prime Minister has announced. read more

UK-based Jones Food Company (JFC) has opened its second vertical farm, JFC2, located near Lydney in Gloucestershire. read more

Spain’s Semillas Fitó chose Fruit Logistica 2024 as the backdrop for the official launch of its ambitious 2023-26 Sustainability Plan. The plan sets out the positive contribution the seed company can make to improving nutrition worldwide, in terms of food security – by breeding more
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Aldi is to create 5,500 new roles across the UK this year, the retailer announced today (21 February). read more

By 2022, 697 farms in Flanders, or 3% of all farms, were growing vegetables under glass. The number of greenhouse vegetable farms had declined slightly since 2012, but had increased again in the past three years. In contrast, the area under greenhouse vegetables has
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