According to the company, the investment volume amounts to 60 million euros. The new building complex with a floor area of 27,500 m² comprises a production area of 18,000 m², a logistics area of 9,500 m² and around 3,750 m² for offices, canteen and social rooms on the first floor.
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A.F. Blakemore has unveiled Lawrence Shirazian as managing director of its newly formed Foodservice Business Unit. read more

This is because the production of the most common edible mushroom, the button mushroom, requires the use of a top layer of substrate, which currently consists of 90% black peat. There is as yet no adequate substitute raw material for this application. The Industrieverband Garten (IVG) e.V. therefore points out that
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An analysis of AMI promotion prices in food retail reveals a significant increase in promotions compared to the previous year. While there were only 26 promotions for savoy cabbage in weeks 40 to 48 of 2022, there are 63 promotions this year. That is an increase
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Chilean citrus exports grew 48 per cent in 2023. The figure was 16 per cent on the average over the last three seasons, according to the figures released by the Chilean Citrus Committee. read more

Taking place annually at ExCeL London, the trade show is set to have a major refresh to reflect the changing expectations and evolving retail landscape in this increasingly important sector. read more

The bad weather conditions in October meant that harvesting had to stop in many EU countries, just after it had got going. In mid-November, up to 250 mm of rainfall was recorded in potato growing areas of the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Germany, leaving plots flooded. Of the 1.4 million
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The event featured an academic congress, with technical conferences focused on areas such as productivity, quality, markets and exports around avocado, showing trends and advances in terms of sustainability, innovation and technology. There was also a series of AvoTalks by leading companies in
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Vineyards on over 50,000 acres in the Sangli district in India were damaged due to heavy unseasonal rainfall last week, some of which were in the flowering stage and some almost ready to be harvested. read more

There was great participation and interest in the Veronese greenhouse meetings, organised in Zevio, in co-ordination between Bayer CropScience's Vegetables and Crop Protection divisions. read more

Tosca, a leading provider of reusable packaging solutions, is pleased to announce the appointment of Indy Obhi as the new Managing Director for UK and Ireland. Reporting directly to EMEA President, Dan Lee, his main responsibility will be to further improve
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Relentless rainfall, attributed to the El Niño phenomenon, has unleashed devastating floods in the Horn of Africa, particularly in Kenya, compounding the region's challenges after experiencing its worst drought in four decades. As of Friday, the Kenyan government has reported a grim death toll
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Health and taste are often antithetical concepts: a food that pleases the taste buds is unlikely to be equally effective in terms of health. And the opposite is true. read more

The artichoke from the Vega Baja del Segura has officially started its season today in the municipality of Daya Vieja with the chef Aurora Torres, founder and chef of the restaurant La Herradura located in Los Montesinos (with 1 Solete in the Repsol Guide) and the gastronomic space Lula by Aurora.
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As the New Year approaches, the prices of some vegetables are expected to rise by almost a quarter, with cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, aubergines, and berries experiencing the highest increase. The anticipated 25% cost surge for greenhouse plants is based on Rosstat's analysis. Over the last
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Chinese ports demonstrated a robust performance with a 4.9% year-on-year surge in container volume during the January-October period, reaching a total of 257 million TEUs (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units). Concurrently, cargo volume at Chinese ports exceeded 14 billion tons, marking an 8.5%
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The first edition of the 'Fruit and vegetable trolley of the year' contest (for more information click here), devised by Agroter's Fruit and Vegetable Monitor together with UNAPROA with the collaboration of Toluna, saw the success in the special ranking dedicated to the essential supermarkets of LIDL
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GreenV is establishing GreenV Mexico and has appointed Mauricio Revah as Managing Director. Mauricio Revah explains: "There is no doubt about the importance and potential of the Mexican market. The main advantage for Mexican growers and investors is that GreenV Mexico combines the strength of
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40% of countries report economic losses in agriculture explicitly linked to climate change; a sector that is therefore becoming increasingly strategic for creating a resilient and sustainable economy. Hence the need to improve agri-food systems to stem losses
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Shipping bottlenecks experienced during the Covid shipping bubble brought much of the North American supply chain into disarray. “Capacity restraints and port slowdowns crippled the transpacific tradelane,” says Jane Colazzo with UWL. “It drove us to rethink the traditional carrier model,
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