New Zealand-based ag-tech company Bluelab – with partner Excel Seeds – has announced a new collaboration Malaysian government-backed think-tank, MIGHT (Market-Driven Technological Partnership), and energy innovators Wasavé, that will see strawberries grown in a liquefied natural gas
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Mr. Avocado, China’s most famous brand of ripened, ready-to-eat avocados, has completed the construction of its new ripening and distribution centres in Southwest China (Chengdu) and North China (Beijing). These centres are now fully functioning and have begun operations to serve their
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'Skyrocketing prices, poorer farmers'. Ѐ this is the slogan of the national demonstration called by Cia-Agricoltori Italiani in Rome on Thursday 26 October at 9.30 a.m. in Piazza Santi Apostoli. Thousands of farmers will be arriving from all over Italy to participate with the
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The Marrone di San Zeno celebrates 20 years of PDO. The protected designation of origin of the Marrone di San Zeno was registered in 2003 and in the same year the Consorzio di Tutela was established, which today unites more than forty members with more than 30 companies that produce the PDO marrone. read more

The United States is becoming an increasingly important market. According to Kay Bee Exports CEO Kaushal Khakhar, the potential of the US is still untapped, despite Kay Bee’s growing market share in the region: “The main products that we ship to the US market are the whole pomegranates,
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In Oak Park, Carlow, Teagasc has established a new apple research orchard at its crops research centre, where a new research program is set up to develop the apple sector in Ireland. Minister of State for Land Use and Biodiversity in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Pippa
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"We have almost reached the end of the season with the early varieties, after it started one week late on September 10th. We registered a 40% drop in production, but the high temperatures favored fruit quality. Now Wonderful is being harvested. In this case too, yields are 30% lower, but grades
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International focus on the Arabian Peninsula, the birth of the Macfrut Academy, two new pavilions and three dynamic areas. There are many new features of Macfrut, the international fair for the fruit and vegetable sector that will be held at the Rimini Expo Centre from 8 to 10 May 2010.
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An almost all female led pineapple exporting company from Panama, Tropical Fruit Company, is taking advantage of the current lower volumes from supplying countries says its leader, Dora Espinoza. “The current demand is on the rise since the largest exporting countries do not have enough
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The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture (ALAS), made up of the farmers' organisations ASAJA, COAG and UPA, the Spanish Agri-food Cooperatives, the Spanish Federation of Fruit, Vegetable, Flowers and Live Plants Exporting Producers' Associations (FEPEX), and the
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C.A.C., Consorzio Sativa, L'Ortolano, Ri.Nova soc.coop., Centro Seia srl, Azienda Agricola Orto Mio and Viridea srl: these are the protagonists of the 43 million euro national supply chain investment involving companies in Emilia-Romagna, Sicily and Lombardy. read more

Rising costs, increasing labor shortages and the sector’s restructuring through company mergers, driven by acquisitions by large operating funds, are boosting investment in automation in fruit and vegetable packing houses, and in an increasingly integrated way. So says Christophe Blanc,
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The last Dutch blackberries and raspberries spell the end of the harvesting season at BerryBrothers. Cousins Nijs and Teun van Zuilen reflect on that and consider the weeks ahead. "Our customers are increasingly moving toward a year-round, premium soft fruit package," begins Nijs. read more

A network made up first and foremost of people, who support each other with passion, enthusiasm and a desire to grow. This is how La Grande Bellezza Italiana was born five years ago and today the union of these six fruit and vegetable companies - Bergonzoni, Coofrutta, Op Joinfruit, Op Geofur, Odorizzi,
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ProducePay released findings of a survey that explored business stability for produce stakeholders, including growers, packers, distributors, integrated suppliers and end buyers in the United States and Latin America. As the International Fresh Produce Association’s (IFPA) annual Global
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Dole - a leader in the production and distribution of premium quality fresh fruit - announces the renewal of its partnership with U.S. Cremonesefor the 2023-2024 season, which will see the team involved in the Serie B football championship and take the field as a protagonist, participating
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Mycotal® is a 100% natural bioinsecticide that is revolutionising biological control of whitefly, thanks to its unique new formulation based on blastospores of the beneficial fungus Lecanicillium muscarium Ve6. Blastospores are the most aggressive and potent form that can be used to control whiteflies.
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The surge in international demand for Egyptian onions has caused prices on the domestic Egyptian market to rise to an unbearable level for consumers, prompting the government to ban exports from October 1 until the end of the year. Two weeks after the export ban, Bahaa Rajab, chief marketing
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India's DMart slides after posting first profit drop in three years read more

This National Apple Month, Honeybear Brands welcomes visitors to booth #2071 at the International Fresh Produce Association show on Oct 19 and 20 as a strong Pazazz® apple crop prepares to hit retail shelves. read more