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'Tighter controls needed on non-EU imports'
2024-03-01 00:00
RappelConso, the official alert website of the French government, released a news item about a mass recall of 'Maltese oranges', grown in Tunisia, for sale in E.Leclerc supermarkets. The levels of pesticides found were above EU limits, confirming
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Chilean cherries take to the skies with Maersk Air Freight
2024-03-01 00:00
As the seasons change, vibrant anticipation fills the air – it's that time of year when cherries fill our markets and tables. While some see it as the onset of summer and others as the start of a new year, our collective love for these ruby-red gems is truly universal.
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Improving crop growth and worker comfort with Phormium's Clima+ 35 O at Amerigo Farms
2024-03-01 00:00
John Albers is the proud President at Amerigo Farms, located in Mt. Dora, Florida. With a passion for cultivating flowering crops, John has expanded his farm with the latest greenhouse technology from Cravo, the Cravo Retractable Cooling House. The primary focus of this expansion is to grow
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Belarusian customs officers prevented the export to Russia of 300 tons of Polish pears
2024-03-01 00:00
Border officials along the Belarusian-Russian border are increasingly detecting attempts of illegal fruit and vegetable smuggling.
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For frozen food +10%: vegetables and potatoes on the podium
2024-03-01 00:00
The first data surveyed in Italy - even if only for the retail channel (that of household consumption) - show that in 2023, the frozen food sector confirmed its solidity by recording a substantial stability in consumption at home, which
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Potatoes: high-end and bulk lead to a rosy future
2024-03-01 00:00
Exploit of the bulk product, increase in premium lines, 'trimming' of functional packs for increasingly smaller households. These are some of the factors behind the unstoppable rise of potatoes in recent years, shared, during yesterday's IFN Live, between
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ColtivaTo, the International Agriculture Festival continues its journey towards the 2025 edition, with a new appointment in the cycle of meetings dedicated to topical and relevant issues in the sector.
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Lane Late, Tango and Clemenvilla are the most sought-after varieties in January and February
2024-03-01 00:00
At the beginning of 2024, the online fruit and vegetable sales platform Naranjasyfrutas.com shared the trends of wholesaler searches in the citrus fruit sector. As can be seen in the graph below, Lane Late, Tango and Clemenvilla are the most popular varieties.
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"In the last ten days, the price of garlic has increased by 150 dollars per tonne".
2024-03-01 00:00
In recent days, affected by heavy snowfall, the price of high-quality garlic has increased by approximately USD 150 per tonne for 10 consecutive days. Wang, sales director of Jining Shangzhuo Food Co., Ltd., shares with FreshPlaza the current situation of the garlic market.
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The Albani PO, a company whose turnover has been increasing by 25% each year for the past four years, is among the most fastest growing producers and traders in south-east Sicily. Thanks to the over 80 partners covering 200 hectares in total, the volumes produced are significant and cover the
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South Mill Champs and Grupo APAL form strategic joint venture to expand mushroom production in Mexico
2024-03-01 00:00
South Mill Champs, a leading North American grower and supplier of fresh mushrooms and functional mushroom foods, announced that it has entered into a cross-border partnership with Grupo APAL to form a 50/50 Mexican joint venture, Royal Champs S. de R.L. de C.V.
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"The influx of volumes has led to a decline in demand in the citrus export market".
2024-03-01 00:00
The citrus export season in China reached its peak just before the Chinese New Year holidays in early February, coinciding with a significant drop in prices. Since mid-February, citrus fruit prices have experienced a significant drop in prices.
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"Whether we are talking about Spanish round, pear or cherry tomatoes, the problems are the same".
2024-03-01 00:00
Right now there is not a very buoyant market either for Spanish vegetables, both greenhouse and open field, or for Spanish citrus. "Yesterday we had a good day of sales but today things are rather calmer. February had a quiet start
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'Revenue and profitability in line with annual targets'
2024-03-01 00:00
The Bonduelle Group's revenue for the 1st half of fiscal year 2023-2024 amounted 1,213.1 million euros compared with 1,243.4 million euros for the 1st half of previous fiscal year, up +4.5% on a like-for-like basis and down -2.4% on reported figures.
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Interest in cauliflower is stagnating in some German markets
2024-03-01 00:00
On the German markets, deliveries of French and Italian cauliflower formed the basis of the range. Spanish deliveries completed the picture, while Belgian ones appeared in smaller quantities only in Cologne. Spanish products were absent in Hamburg.
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Number of UK carrot growers drops due to tight margins
2024-03-01 00:00
The British Carrot Growers Association (BCGA) is confronting challenges as squeezed profits lead to a reduction in carrot cultivation. To combat this, BCGA is initiating a campaign to protect carrot growers' future, highlighted by the National Carrot Awareness Day scheduled for October 3, 2024.
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"The Japanese market now accounts for 100% of our kiwi exports".
2024-03-01 00:00
The Georgian company Nergeta started growing kiwifruit near the country's Black Sea coast in 2011. Within two years, it established a 20-hectare orchard and also built its own cold store and packing plant. His first trial shipments were sold in a chain
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"As in an entropic system, bureaucracy in Italy will never decrease, on the contrary, it will increase because it employs a host of bureaucrats. It is useless to have illusions. What to do then? We must learn to 'ride it out', to take advantage of it, by informing ourselves and taking timely advantage of every opportunity
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New management, more transparency, better cooperation, and ongoing improvements have helped to turn around the backlog at the Cape Town port (CTP) for fruit exports.
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Impact of weather and economic challenges evident in T&G results
2024-02-29 17:00
According to T&G Global chair Benedikt Mangold, the loss incurred by the company in the year to 31 December 2023, largely a result of last February’s Cyclone Gabrielle, would have no bearing on T&G’s strategy going forward.
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