Avocado consumption in France has not yet reached full potential
2023-10-27 00:00
The World Avocado Organization (WAO) continues to promote avocados in Europe, especially in France. This year, WAO signed partnerships with 30 different retailers in 12 European countries, including chains such as Carrefour and Tesco. This now represents a network of over 35,000 stores for the
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Firm lime pricing expected until spring
2023-10-27 00:00
The supply of limes out of Mexico continues to be inconsistent. “It’s due to weather and other ongoing conditions in Mexico,” says Alex Teague of World Groves. Those conditions include some aging trees, some disease problems in nursery stock and the drought. “The fruit sizing and fruit
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'Availability was sufficient to meet demand'
2023-10-27 00:00
Domestic offers continued to form the basis of the potato assortment. European imports only played a minor role in some cases. Availability was sufficient to meet demand. Except for isolated reductions, prices remained mostly stable, according to the BLE.
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GrowFlux’s new Precision PAR® dynamic lighting control is an easy-to-install monitoring and control solution that allows growers to build automated control systems that work with any light. Much like a thermostat, Precision PAR detects light levels near the crop and automatically adjusts any
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Wim de Weert has been growing strawberries in Portugal for the Dutch and French markets for 15 years
2023-10-27 00:00
Fifteen years ago, Wim de Weert moved from the Netherlands to Portugal to run a strawberry farm (Rei de Morangos) ten kilometers north of Faro. "Originally, we grew the plants and sold them to Portuguese growers, but not much came of our advice. So, we started cultivating strawberries
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Kiwi, Tomra helps growers meet challenges
2023-10-27 00:00
Kiwifruit packing stations are competing in an ever-changing market. Global demand is increasing, but consumer expectations of quality are also growing, and this confronts packers with two potentially conflicting objectives. The first is that
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Rise of Moroccan Brussels sprouts in the British market from scratch
2023-10-27 00:00
Morocco has been increasing its overall exports of vegetables, andEastFruit suggests paying attention to the rapid growth in Moroccan exports of Brussels sprouts to the UK. Moroccan exporters have managed to develop exports in just a few years from scratch.
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Household consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables falls again
2023-10-27 00:00
According to the latest data published by the Food Consumption Panel of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food for the period January to August 2023, within the category, the most consumed are fruits, with 2,504 million kilos, 2.3% less than in the previous year.
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New 'Abraham' Kefren F1 and Serket F1 from HM.Clause
2023-10-27 00:00
HM.Clause's California pepper catalogue has been expanded with two new varieties. They are Kefren F1 and Serket F1. The seed company has shown them from yesterday until today in a field conference held in Dalías.
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Tighter supply on larger Peruvian sweet onions
2023-10-27 00:00
Sweet onion supply has transitioned to coming out of Peru and supplies look steady. “Our New Mexico sweet onion season ran a little bit later but the transition was right on schedule,” says Jeff Brechler of Little Bear Produce. Supply will continue to come from Peru through the first of
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Ferrero Group shelves Australian hazelnut farm
2023-10-27 00:00
The Ferrero Group has Listed adjoining Riverina farms five years after planting some million hazelnut trees over part of it. The Italy-based group behind Nutella will abandon the operation, raze the shrubs and offer the 2665 hectare Narrandera site as a vacant agricultural asset.
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Nuts, prospects for the sector at the FEM event
2023-10-27 00:00
The situation and future prospects of the nut sector in Italy is the focus of the scientific event that opened yesterday in San Michele. Two days of discussion among some fifty researchers on the current situation of consumption, production and
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EastFruit analysts would like to draw attention to the sharp increase in prices for fresh apples in Ukraine over the previous week. Prices for Gala and Golden Delicious apples jumped by 50% in single week! What are the reasons for such an unprecedented price rise?
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The Egyptian peanut season kicks-off
2023-10-27 00:00
The Egyptian peanut season has just begun, with demand on the rise and competition still calm. Mohamed Hassan, export sales manager at Alalamia Nuts reports on the season's kick-off.
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Cia in Rome, two thousand farmers in the square
2023-10-27 00:00
Over two thousand farmers in Rome to say, with Cia, 'Don't take away our future'. Yesterday, the Confederation's national demonstration filled Piazza Santi Apostoli and the streets of the city centre with a large number of producers and breeders arriving from all over Italy, with placards and green flags, to
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Pumpkins also take centre stage on social media
2023-10-27 00:00
In Italy, some farms have been decorating their premises with a typical autumn fruit, the pumpkin, in October for several years now, turning into 'Pumpkin Villages'. The format was borrowed from the United States, where it is called
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AMFresh launches “spellbinding” new citrus variety for Halloween
2023-10-27 00:00
AMFresh has launched an exclusive new mandarin in time for the Halloween celebration on 31 October. Developed by the group’s Genesis Innovation team Halloweena is an innovative, pumpkin-shaped easy peeler with a multi-colour skin and sweet and virtually seedless pulp.
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Georgian delegation explores enhanced trade links with Sri Lanka
2023-10-27 00:00
A Georgian business delegation has visited the Sri Lanka Export Development Board (EDB), hoping to enhance trading opportunities with the latter’s agricultural sector. Georgia is Sri Lanka’s 91st export destination. Last year, Sri Lanka’s exports value to Georgia was $5.02 million,
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Syngenta's novelties, Norris and Arconte, debut in Berja
2023-10-27 00:00
Syngenta continues with its calendar of field days to promote its new varieties of California, Arconte and Norris peppers among growers and technicians. After the days held in El Ejido a few days ago, this week it was the turn of Berja.
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Venetian garlic in comeback
2023-10-27 00:00
The year 2023 closes with an excellent balance sheet for garlic in Veneto, 90% of which is concentrated in the province of Rovigo, definitely making a comeback compared to the drought-stricken 2022 that caused production to suffer. According to 2022 data from Veneto Agricoltura, throughout Veneto the area under garlic is
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