Recent violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories has placed the region’s fresh fruit and vegetabke supply chains under intense pressure. read more

Industry bodies across the logistics and transport sectors have called for a new approach to strategic transport infrastructure decisions to avoid what they call ”disruption caused by political cycles and the stop-start decisions that increase costs and harm business confidence”. read more

It’s a regrettable truth that greenwashing is now common in many industries, and the fresh produce trade is no exception. Fortunately, there are also plenty of companies that walk the sustainable talk – and one business that goes the extra mile to minimise its environmental impact is Abel
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A jury presented Fruit Attraction’s Innovation Hub Fresh Produce award to xEXPRIMIR, while the F&V Industry award went to FMC AGRICULTURAL SOLUTION, and the Sustainability Actions and Commitment award was won by CAPEC, each of whom received €2,000. read more

Frutura has announced its intent to accelerate its berry capabilities with agreements-to-acquire all company assets have been signed with Giddings Fruit and Sun Belle. CEO David Krause described the agreements as “among the most significant acquisitions we have made to date”. read more

There are two weeks left to apply for the 2024 LSA Fellowship scheme, which is seeking to identify the future leaders of the UK horticulture industry. read more

Fresh produce importer Port International has announced that it has entered into a pioneering partnership with international climate action NGO Wrap, sustainable trade initiative IDH and other businesses to support and co-finance a collective action project aimed at promoting sustainable water
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Shelf-life extension specialist Hazel Technologies has announced the registration of its flagship product, Hazel 100, in Peru. read more

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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