On November 15, a total of 6,283,493 packages - bags, clamshells, plain packs, wrapped and other packages - of grapes were held in cold storage in California. It's a reduction of almost 40 percent compared to a year ago. On November 15, 2022 the number equaled 10,140,303 packages. read more

The arrival of autumn fills the Italian fruit and vegetable markets with a great variety of typical seasonal products. Fruits and vegetables such as persimmons, pumpkin, apples and pears are invading the fruit and vegetable counters and represent real nutritional resources in
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Piet Pannekeet officially bid 'adieu' to JASA Packaging Solutions three years ago. But last week, that was celebrated with a festive farewell. The pandemic delayed this occasion somewhat. Much has since happened, and this Dutch engineering firm launched a new platform for a new generation of
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Nature Fresh Farms® is expanding production to the West Coast, partnering with grower Millennium Pacific to bring California-grown Hiiros™ Tomatoes to the market. read more

Esselunga's expansion continues as it fits into a modern urban and architectural context, the result of redevelopment operations in the Uptown residential district, the Mind - Milan Innovation District and Merlata Bloom. In such an environment, the brand read more

"I have been making a living from agriculture for about 14 years, trading in fruits and vegetables. Yet, climate change has brought a lot of weather extremes here, making food scarcity visible in periods when what were formerly local products are now imported from the other half of the world.
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“Previously, we needed up to 50.000 m3 of water per hectare per year. Now that we grow in containers, we have reduced this to 1.500 m3 per year. The quality of the fruits has improved, and grows at a higher density. The plants have better roots, no stress, and they are healthier.” It is one
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Encore Consumer Capital, a private equity firm that invests exclusively in leading consumer products companies, is pleased to announce its portfolio company Tourtellot & Co., Inc. has completed the acquisition of Ryeco Inc. from the Reilly family, who continue to be an owner in the combined
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The Company of Protected Varieties (CVVP) recently organized visits to experimental farms in Huelva, Spain, attended by more than 100 people interested in learning about the pigmented orange variety Red Lina. The company highlighted the success of this variety, originally from South Africa,
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The European Parliament will debate tomorrow 21 November and vote on Wednesday 22 November on new rules to make packaging easier to reuse and recycle, reduce unnecessary packaging and waste and promote the use of recycled materials. Some 2,600 compromise amendments have been tabled in the
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The kaki campaign, which started around 10 October for the Fabbri farm in Santarcangelo di Romagna (Rimini), is going full steam ahead. Together withFilippo Fabbri, producer member of the Agribologna consortium and active witness for the 'I made this myself' project, and his cousin
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A cucumber with remarkable earliness, it lends itself well to different transplanting periods: in Sicily in particular from mid-October to the end of December, while in the rest of Italy from January to March and from mid-July to the end of August. This is Cannitello F1, the new hybrid variety proposed by
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Top of the Crops… British Berry Growers name Co-op' Retailer of the Year' read more

UK potato prices continue to rise, with buyers struggling to secure stocks amid tight supplies of free-buy potatoes. The Mintec Benchmark Prices for English white packing potatoes [Mintec Code: POWP] were last assessed at £330/mt, an increase of 43.4% month-on-month (m-o-m) and 65% year-on-year
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In the Southern Urals, over 45,000 tons of imported fruits have been inspected since the beginning of 2023, revealing eight types of quarantine objects in 44 cases. The regional service Rosselkhoznadzor reported that legal measures were taken against infected sub-quarantine products of foreign
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An increasing number of European and extra-European operators and supermarket chains are requesting pomegranates from Italy even though, up until a few years ago, they used to purchase them from other Mediterranean origins such as Spain and Turkey. read more

South African private terminal operator FPT has acquired another reach stacker to boost their quayside efficiency. Reach stackers are much less sensitive to wind than straddle carriers; during peak summer the port of Cape Town experiences winds of high speed. read more

Del Monte launches A Kick of fruit, a new line of fruit-based energy drinks.The presentation in a special location, the Caatdi Torino. The collaboration with Old Tom Gin Company and Piccadilly Presentation at Caat of the new Del Monte drinks read more

Two South African fruit exporting companies, together with local Kenyan partners, recently opened the doors of a brand new state-of-the-art cold storage facility in Kenya. The new facilities are worth US$1, 5 million and launched on Sunday, 22 October, 2023. read more

Azerbaijan's trade in fruits and vegetables for the period of January to September was reported by the State Statistical Committee. Imports to the country during this period totalled 91,328 thousand tons of fruits (a 9% decline) valued at $92.16 million (a 4.5% decrease), 21,764 thousand tons of
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