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North Bay Produce's Dutch sales office is entering its fourth year this year. "We now have six people working in the Netherlands and England, which we should expand further in the coming years," begins Wilco Arts. North Bay is a North American cooperative with growers in North, Central, and
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From Italy to New Zealand for the Symposium on kiwifruit
2024-02-28 00:00
A Jingold technical team attended the 11th edition International kiwifruit symposium, a global summit organized by ISHS (International Society for Horticultural Science) over the past few days (February 20-24) in Mount Maunganui, New Zealand. It was an important occasion to assess the current
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Morocco's export successes in the fruit and vegetable sector are no secret to experts in the sector. However, it is interesting to look at which markets show the most impressive dynamics in order to understand where the greatest opportunities arise.
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'New sustainable packaging for the food sector'
2024-02-28 00:00
For some time now, the topic of packaging has been stirring the food industry, and companies continue to develop increasingly 'sustainable' solutions. ASV Packaging and Hinojosa Packaging Group, for example, will be present at the CFIA trade fair in Rennes from 12 to 14 March 2024 (9-E32) to
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Consumers are increasingly aware of the importance of environmentally friendly packaging and supermarkets have decided to embrace this trend, as Adam Sikorski, sales director of the Polish packaging company SoFruPak, explains: "Looking at the
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"Majority of trading companies also vote in favour of GBD"
2024-02-28 00:00
In January, the majority of trading companies (74%) voted in favour of introducing a General Binding Declaration (GBD) for the collective activities developed by the Flower Council of Holland. This means there is sufficient support among both growers and traders, as growers (78%) had already
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Moldovan grape sector to benefit from FAO initiative
2024-02-28 00:00
In a significant move to bolster Moldova's table grape sector, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has earmarked a $350,000 technical assistance project under the One Country One Priority Product (OCOP) initiative. This collaboration was formalized through an
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Italy's lemon season reaches its peak, but complications persist
2024-02-28 00:00
The Limorè brand lemon campaign is in its central phase, both in the field and in the packing stations, but difficulties, as Pietro Buongiorno, president of the Consortium of Associated Lemon Producers of Rocca Imperiale, points out, are always around the corner.
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Four-month-old girl sets world record
2024-02-28 00:00
A four-month-old Indian girl named Kaivalya has broken a world record by identifying 120 different objects, including birds, vegetables and animals. Her exceptional cognitive skills earned her recognition in the Noble Book of World Records as the first four-month-old baby in the world.
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Demand shifts back to peaches in the face of nectarine oversupply
2024-02-28 00:00
In Over-Hex, near Worcester - of all the Cape regions described as climatically closest to California - almost forty different varieties of stone fruit are grown on a 215-year-old Boland farm called Oudewagendrift.
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"If the weather is good, we will start the stone fruit campaign 10 days earlier in Murcia".
2024-02-28 00:00
The 2024 stone fruit season is approaching in Murcia, where flowering is about 10 days ahead of last year's season.
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Sollum Technologies expands its sales team in North America
2024-02-28 00:00
Sollum Technologies is expanding its sales team in North America. The company aims to meet the growing demand for supplemental lighting in controlled environment agriculture with an intuitive and fully customizable "dynamic" LED lighting solution. From left to right, Kassim Tremblay (VP, Global
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In response to European farmers' protests against Moroccan agricultural imports, Morocco's Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita emphasized the mutual benefits under the association agreement with the European Union (EU), highlighting a 10 billion euro trade surplus in favor of the EU. During a press
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Insect screen system for frameless windows introduced
2024-02-28 00:00
For years, Alweco has been supplying and installing accordion and folding screen systems throughout the world. Due to the increased demand for their insect screen systems, they have expanded their range with frameless windows. Ramon Bol of Alweco: "We have designed a sleek, easy-to-install, and…
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Start-up is born that analyses plant sap in real-time
2024-02-28 00:00
Seventy per cent of the world's water consumption is for agriculture, but 60 per cent of the water used in this sector is wasted due to inefficient irrigation systems. Agriculture is also responsible for 17% of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.1 In short,
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Uk, Price Match arrives at Morrisons
2024-02-28 00:00
UK retailer Morrisons is following the Aldi and Lidl convenience wave and is putting comparative signage on its products, displaying the prices of the two retailers. The initiative has been applied to hundreds of essential products and Morrisons' prices are often lower than
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FEPEX has expressed its concern about the impact that the future Law on Nature Restoration, which was approved yesterday in the plenary session of the European Parliament, may have on productive activity.
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A difficult season for Greek apples
2024-02-28 00:00
"Although the Greek apple season got off to a very promising start, unfortunately the reality was very different," he says. This is stated by Matoula Katsika, export and sales manager of the Greek company A.C. Kissavos. "The apple season was very dynamic at the beginning and
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Four-month-old sets world record by identifying vegetables
2024-02-28 00:00
A four-month-old baby from Nadigama, Andhra Pradesh, named Kaivalya, has set a world record by identifying 120 different items, including birds, vegetables, and animals. Her exceptional cognitive skills earned her recognition in the Noble Book of World Records as the first four-month-old to
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Four months old sets world record, recognising vegetables
2024-02-28 00:00
A four-month-old Indian girl named Kaivalya set a world record by identifying 120 different objects, including birds, vegetables and animals. Her exceptional cognitive abilities earned her recognition in the Noble Book of World Records.
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