While Brazil mourns the loss of 65 people, following a deadly mud slides amidst a record downpour of 682 mm of rain, export fruit has not been affected. According to According to Jorge de Souza, technical and project manager at the Brazilian Fruit Growers and Exporters Association (ABRAFRUTAS)
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The current negotiations between the government and Brussels, the government and Conservative backbenchers, and the government and Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), are quite complicated. One element has been all but done for a while, and, we expect, to be sorted today - the
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Agriculture is crucial for the economy and job creation in the province of Huelva. For this reason, the Guardia Civil deploys a large number of troops in the production areas in order to prevent actions constituting crimes and infractions that may harm the
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Production from Caxias do Sul will be celebrated from this Friday at the Festa das Colheitas. The main fruit, featured in this festival continues to have the largest cultivated area in the municipality. The table grape is grown on 448 hectares and adds up to around 7,000 tons. The volume
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Cooler weather in Mexico has slowed down production on colored bell peppers. “We’re just about to turn the corner in Sinaloa,” says JC Myers, vice-president sales and marketing for SunFed Produce. “We’ve been two to three weeks behind our expected real production peak. We’ve been
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This year's asparagus season is also slowly getting underway in Munich's wholesale market hall. The first batches are now arriving from Greece as well as Italy. "We are holding back on Greece and are now focusing exclusively on Italy in the early sector," says Stefan Bednarek of Früchtewelt
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An international research team led by Dr Margot Neyret from the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre in Frankfurt has investigated how rural areas in Germany could be designed so that all user groups benefit in the best possible way. The researchers show that
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The special added value of wholesale markets is demonstrated, among other things, by the wide variety of products on offer. GSM Import-Export Ltd, for example, offers Agretto, an Italian herb also known as "monk's beard". read more

As container shipping demand slumps a growing number of vessels are either being or sent to drydock for repair work. In its weekly report Alphaliner noted that as of 13 February the number of idle boxships over 500 teu in capacity had increased over two weeks earlier and now totals 366 ships
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In many countries, the costs of blueberry production have recently increased drastically. This is due to the inflation in all components related to fruit production: fuel, energy, human labor, fertilizers, protection products. These factors make blueberry production costs very high. For example,
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Kale, from the cabbage family, has become one of the most demanded vegetables, both for its intense and characteristic flavour, as well as for its great nutritional properties. This vegetable, also known as kale, is rich in protein, fibre and high in calcium,
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Amazon union leader flies in to help UK strikers ‘kick down the door’ read more

After tasting success with his dragon fruit cultivation initiative, Basvanthpur farmer Ramesh Reddy is once again drawing attention to his farm by installing hundreds of LED bulbs on the 3 hectares of dragon fruit farm at Ranzole village of Zaheerabad Mandal. The objective of the LED lighting is
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Nhimbe Fresh Produce, one of Zimbabwe's biggest horticultural companies, is finalizing a funding structure to boost its out-grower base as it targets more export volumes. The company has already established its distribution hub in Dubai where it will move its products to various parts of Europe,
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The event took place in the Siyâsa Museum in Cieza and was attended by Antonio Luengo Zapata, Regional Minister of Agriculture of the Region of Murcia and Pascual Lucas Díaz, Mayor of Cieza, among other government representatives invited to the event. read more

Croatia’s first distribution centre for fruit and vegetables worth €14.6 million opened this week near Osijek, eastern Croatia, the Osijek-Baranja county government said. The centre covers 8,182 m2 and will provide local agri producers with infrastructure and conditions to store, sort, pack
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Vita Verde is warning colleagues in the fresh produce sector not to do business with the following company: read more

A dissolution of the European Union would result in enormous losses of prosperity for the member states. This is shown by analyses of a study by the Ifo Institute and EconPol Europe. The gross domestic product (GDP) per capita would fall by 5.2 % in Germany, by 7.8 % in Austria, by 5.1 % in the
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In the first part of this article, we described the real and unexpected issues, or, more precisely, the problems most investors face when they enter the fruit and vegetable freezing segment. These are the questions that they did not pay attention to before they started investing. read more

The President of Uzbekistan signed a document on the ratification of the Preferential Trade Agreement between Uzbekistan and Turkey on February 22, 2023. The Agreement was signed on March 29, 2022, in Tashkent, during the second meeting of the Uzbek-Turkish High-Level Strategic Cooperation
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