As we can see in the graph below, the highest prices for onions are now in EU countries. EastFruit monitors prices only in the Polish market and we can see that onions in Poland are much more expensive than in the non-EU countries of Eastern Europe and in the countries of Central Asia. read more

Cot International, nestled in the heart of apricot production near Nimes in southern France, is on a mission to breed varieties renowned for their outstanding flavor, aroma, post-harvest qualities, productivity, self-fertility, and disease resistance. read more

The Scottish cherry season at McIntyre Fruit has come to an end and Matthew McIntyre said it was a fairly good season, but no bumper volumes this year. read more

The UK potato industry is grappling with an intensifying menace from wireworms. Currently, a perfect storm of risk factors seems to create optimum conditions for the pest to thrive. read more

BLOOM FRESH, a fruit-breeding company created by the merger of Special New Fruit Licensing and International Fruit Genetics, LLC, is pleased to announce that the South Korean Intellectual Property High Court has ruled that the company’s grape variety brands Sweet Sapphire™ and Black
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Bio Fruchtgemüse Produzenten e.V. wants to extend its quality lead and enter into an even closer exchange with its trade partners in the future when communicating the advantages of regionally produced association goods. read more

During quarantine, phytosanitary control at the temporary storage warehouse of TLT-Zabaikalsk LLC, a shipment of 5,123 tons of tomatoes from China revealed the presence of the Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV). The infection was confirmed through virological studies conducted by the
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In collaboration with the Ministry of International Cooperation, the Internal Trade Development Authority (ITDA), and the French Development Agency (AFD), the Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade has launched a project to establish 17 green food hubs across Egypt. read more

It's still too early to calculate if the prices at origin in this campaign, which are better than in the previous campaigns, "compensate" for the decrease in production, which will be slightly higher than last season, but 14.4% below the average of the last five, stated Carles Peris, the
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It recently became known how much money Uzbekistan earned from the sale of fruits and vegetables since the beginning of this year. This was reported by the Statistical Agency of the Republic of Uzbekistan. read more

According to elEconomista, Alantra Private Equity has reinforced Surexport Compañía Agraria ("Surexport") with three acquisitions to boost its build-up development in the berry sector: Solana, a Portuguese raspberry producer; AG Group, a blueberry producer in Morocco; and Flor de Doñana, a
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Duda Farm Fresh Foods introduces their new Dandy® Snacking In A Snap! ™ product line with the unveiling of the inaugural product, celery dippers™ at the Global Produce and Floral show. Celery dippers™ are a petite 2-inch celery stick perfect for bite-size snacking. read more

This series gives the average wholesale prices of bananas by country of origin. The prices are national averages of the most usual prices charged for bananas at wholesale markets in Birmingham and London. This publication is updated weekly. read more

California oranges will start slightly late this year. “It’s probably going to be about the first of November to the 10th for most people and we plan on November 6th for our start date,” says Derek Vaughn of Johnston Farms. read more

Zespri has officially opened its new Centre of Sales and Marketing Excellence in Singapore, following a recent blessing ceremony. read more

The candidature of Italian cuisine as a Unesco Intangible Heritage, the enhancement of supply chains, the stop to synthetic food and the role of farmers, breeders and fishermen for the environment. These were some of the topics at the centre of the Agriculture Minister's speech,
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The storm surge on the Baltic Sea hit Schleswig-Holstein especially hard on Friday and Saturday, and in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania the tide had also flooded shore areas and roads. 2,000 people were brought to safety from the flood waters. The Civil Protection calculated the damage to be in
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Assessment time for Dolce Passione, the black-skinned watermelon fruit of Italian research. The second harvest is coming to an end. But they are already looking ahead to 2024: 'The goal is to aim for a doubling of the cultivated area in 2023, perhaps
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The last bush and princess beans of this year's season have already been harvested at the Lampertheim nursery in southern Hesse. "I would describe the 2023 bean year as positive, mixed. The yields were, by and large, okay. That is, the season got off to a good start, but then we had a bit of a
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Plants consume energy to produce proteins, enzymes and the essential molecules to perform their physiological functions. During periods of intense growth or stress, energy consumption increases even further and the plant's performance must be very high. read more