The supply of hard squash is down from last year. “The production across all vegetables is down out of Western Mexico and little hard squash remains in storage in the U.S.,” says Lesley Sykes of The Sykes Co. read more

The Angys pear campaign, exclusively produced and distributed in Italy by Spreafico Francesco & F.lli, is now in full swing. 'This year's product is of excellent quality, both organoleptically and aesthetically, with good fruit size,' comments Simone
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On 5 February, the change in Assomela's management formally took place, with the handover between Alessandro Dalpiaz, director of the association for over 20 years and now retired, and Giovanni Missanelli, Assomela's new director, who has
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The following is the text of the message from the 'Coordinamento riscatto agricolo' (Agricultural Redemption Coordination) on the tractor protest underway throughout Italy. The message was read by Amadeus on the Sanremo stage during the fourth evening of the Festival. read more

A.P. Moller - Maersk delivered solid financial results for 2023 in line with our financial guidance for the year. While volumes were up across most products and strong cost control helped improve results, rates continued to erode, particularly in Ocean. Revenue for 2023 was USD 51.1bn with an
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The European Union has seen a considerable surge in the import of Vietnamese fruits and vegetables, with the export turnover rising from US$200 million in 2022 to US$399 million in 2023. This makes the EU the third largest consumer of these Vietnamese products. Businesses are eager to leverage
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Spreafico is relying on Greece for supplies of green kiwis and other fruits. In view of the difficulties in the sector in Italy - such as adverse weather conditions and the emergence of new diseases, which are forcing producers to focus more and more on yellow kiwi fruit - the company is turning to
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The World Apple and Pear Association (WAPA) has released the Southern Hemisphere apple and pear crop forecast for the upcoming season in Berlin. According to the forecast, which consolidates the data from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, New Zealand, and South Africa, apple production is set
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On Friday afternoon, as Fruit Logistica closed its doors (click here to read more), all the attention of the agricultural sector shifted to Rome, where the government, in the space of a few hours, summoned both the main trade unions in the sector and the spokesman of one of the
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In 2023, a year after initiating exports to China, Kenya's avocado exports to the country surged nearly tenfold. According to Chinese data, the Asian nation imported 4,324 tonnes of Kenyan avocados last year, compared to 443 tonnes in 2022. Philip Mutooni, Chief Executive of the Avocado
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Tomra Food is riding the Ai wave and at Fruit Logistica in Berlin, illustrated its sorting, grading and packaging technologies with three new solutions based on artificial intelligence. A revolution also in food sorting Tomra Food Neon for pre-sorting blueberries read more

"The organic fruit market's supply and demand are well balanced. There's a little shortage. That's good," begins Robert Elshof of the Dutch company Elshof Organic Fruit - which grows and markets organic top fruit - interpreting the market in mid-January. "The harvest was considerably smaller
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TOMRA Food unveiled its new streamlined and optimised organisational structure in Berlin, presented its sorting, sizing and packaging solutions, and launched three new AI-based sorting and sizing solutions. read more

Some of Moldova’s canning factories have resumed to accept last year’s apples at the prices they were in autumn 2024. The deliveries in January and February are not very large, only a few dozen tons per day, according to AgroExpert . However, the activity is expected to increase from March
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Antonio Muñoz Armero, the founder of the AMC Group holding company, has died at the age of 93. Muñoz was a towering presence in Spanish agriculture, turning the company he inherited from his father into a holding group made up of more than 70 companies with annual sales of €1.3bn. read more

The Ukrainian carrot market in Ukraine is facing a slump in prices, according to EastFruit analysts. read more

According to EastFruit , Egypt broke its own record of table grape exports to the Saudi Arabian market in 2023, as it shipped more than the entire previous year in just the first 10 months. Saudi Arabia had become the top importer of grapes from Egypt in 2022 , and it further consolidated its
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Zucchiolo, the new vegetable product from Unica Fresh in Spain, has won this year’s Fruit Logistica Innovation Award. read more

The Planetary Health Diet (PHD) was developed by the EAT-Lancet Commission in response to the question of how around ten billion people can be fed in 2050 within the Earth's ecological limits. As a basis, the scientists determined a diet in which
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In week 6, the special offer price is 0.69 euros per unit for primarily Italian products. This is higher than the average consumer price a week earlier. With 16 promotions, there is slightly more advertising for kohlrabi in food retail than in the previous week. This is clearly
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