A patchy production and declining volumes will characterise the chestnut campaign in the southern regions. As the season gets ready to start in a few days, we outlined an overview with producers Vincenzo De Maio from Forino (Avellino) and Franco Di Pippo from
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Despite first promising a mandate in 2018, it won’t be until 2026 at the earliest that large food and drink businesses are required to report their food waste figures. read more

The Processors and Growers Research Organisation (PGRO) has launched a new podcast targeted at the UK’s pea and bean sector. read more

South African Deciduous Fruit industry body Hortgro has said it is important to recognise that achieving positive outcomes from the European Green Deal (GD) will require collaboration, investment, and proactive measures by farmers, policymakers and stakeholders. read more

The Co-op has announced what it claims is the biggest-ever price investment by a convenience retailer.  read more

Fresh Del Monte Produce enjoyed a positive set of result in the second quarter (Q2) of the year, with net income more than doubling despite a slight dip in sales. read more

Deutscher Obst & Gemüse Kongress, the leading event for the German fresh produce business, returns to Düsseldorf on 19-20 September 2023 with a programme focused on important changes to the way fruit and vegetables are produced, marketed and distributed. read more

Jorge Valenzuela has been re-elected as the president of Chilean fruit producer federation Fedefruta. Four new members were elected to the Board during Fedefruta’s annual assembly: Sergio Ruiz-Tagle, a grower-exporter from the Copiapó Valley in Chile’s Atacama region; Juan Enrique
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Melon and watermelon producers in the Spanish regions of Murcia and Castilla-La Mancha say they will be able to guarantee a supply of fruit with excellent sweetness and texture as demand is expected to ramp up during summer. read more

As it continues to drive avocado sales in the US by advancing awareness of their health benefits, the Hass Avocado Board (HAB) is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its science-based resource Fresh Avocados – Love One Today. read more

Espacio Food & Service 2023 will take place in Santiago, Chile, from September 26 to 28, 2023. The region’s premiere food industry event allows exhibitors to jump start their Latin American sales by meeting 25,000 top importers, distributors, wholesalers, retailers, institutional buyers,
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Sun World International has launched a new brand, the Ruby Rush, for its Sugarfifttythree seedless grape variety. Sun World licensed growers are harvesting Ruby Rush grapes this month in the US, Italy, Spain, and Israel. The new varietal brand will be used to identify a range of similar red
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The Vanguard International Group chief executive and cofounder Craig Stauffer announced his plans for retirement after an impressive four-decade long career in the fresh produce industry. read more

This week, selling prices for new crop onions in Ukraine have already dropped below last year’s level, EastFruit project analysts report. Farmers are seriously concerned about the current situation because the harvesting of late varieties of onions has yet to begin, and demand in this
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Grafted conifers are a speciality of the Nowaczyk Nursery from Wyganowo. We talked to its host Nikodem Nowaczyk about coniferous shrubs. This is an interesting and very diverse group of ornamental species. In recent years, some taxons have given way to
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The season for selling local plums on the Moldovan market in 2023 began in mid-July, about two weeks later than last year (which, in terms of weather conditions and fruit ripening, was close to the benchmark averages). The starting price level for these fruits was one of the highest in the five
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Facing summer shopping in the scorching temperatures of the hottest months of the year can be a real nightmare. A clever solution comes from the eCommerceCosìComodo.it of the Selex Group, which offers the Click & Collect service, now available in three new municipalities in the north-east
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Watermelon and high temperatures are such an inseparable combination that this fruit is one of the most 'meteoropathic' in terms of consumption of the entire fruit and vegetable sector. Without warm weather, demand freezes, but if the mercury rises, as it increasingly does
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EUR 2,190,736, is the overall result of the collection launched by consumer cooperatives in mid-May in the aftermath of the floods. The collection, which ended at the end of June, involved over 81,000 donors including members, employees and customers; these were joined by
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Combating food waste by using imperfect fruit, which would otherwise be discarded, is the goal of several global entities, including Ugly Vodka, the first vodka made using 'ugly' but good apples, which cannot be sold because they do not comply
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