In the current imported fruit market, peaches, plums and grapes are the main categories. In terms of domestic fruits, blueberries, citrus and pineapples make up the bulk of the available produce. The arrival volume and price of fruit on the market are generally stable this week. read more

Kenya's shilling, Uganda's shilling Ghana's cedi and Zambia's kwacha are expected to weaken against the dollar in the week to Thursday. At the same time, Tanzania's and Nigeria's currencies are forecast to hold steady. read more

New Zealand horticultural exporter Zespri is expecting up to a 40 percent dive in its profit this year. The company has also confirmed to green kiwifruit growers that they will not receive any more significant progress payments for fruit picked last autumn. Zespri has a global operating revenue
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There have been almost no exports of fresh persimmons from Uzbekistan over the past week, apart from single shipments of several tonnes. This means the end of the season for exports of last year’s Uzbek persimmons, EastFruit analysts report. read more

No sooner have most domestic vegetable products said goodbye to the harvest season than it is in top form: Kale, a vegetable that is also known regionally as brown cabbage, tall cabbage, winter cabbage, curly cabbage, Lippische Palme, Oldenburger Palme, Friesische Palme, moss or even feather cabbage.
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Affinitus, a provider of business management software solutions for the fresh produce, foodservice, and horticulture industries, announces that South West premium food service provider, Goosemoor Foodservice, has implemented the Chefserve ERP solution. read more

The Board of Directors of Mercamadrid S.A., whose majority shareholders are the Madrid City Council (51.13%) and the public company Mercasa (48.63%), has analysed the management of the company in 2022, which closes a year with important advances in the transformation of the company.
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Around 18 million cartons are expected for export in 2023. That would be an increase of almost 2 million cartons or 10 % more than last year, reports South Africa correspondent Fred Meintjes. The harvest is not only bigger, but the marketing prospects are also much better than last year.
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Hawke's Bay growers trying to clear silt from their properties have gone from fighting the dust to fighting the mud, as rain is now hampering clean-up efforts. On Brydon Nisbet's Puketapu apple orchard, the rain that felt over the last 48 hours has turned dried out areas of silt back into muddy
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At the end of 2022 and for the third consecutive year, Lambayeque's agro-exports grew steadily, driven by agro-industrial companies installed on new land belonging to Irrigación Olmos. General manager of Pro Olmos (an association that brings together the companies installed on new land in
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Agriculture is not spared from rising prices for production inputs such as energy, diesel, fertiliser, fodder, but also machinery and capital goods. In the past year, these have increased by around 10 %. This corresponds to additional expenditure for farming families in the
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UNICA GROUP SCA held its general assembly last week with the participation of the governing councils of the 16 cooperatives that make up the group and in a face-to-face format, where the Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account (audited for the 2021-2022 Campaign) and the Management Report were approved. The
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On Thursday 23 February, the first Dutch asparagus were auctioned at The Greenery, the buyer being Jumbo Supermarkets. Jumbo bought the first crate of 5 kg for the amount of € 5,000, after which The Greenery and its growers doubled the amount to read more

The sales of Hami melon used to be mainly concentrated in summer, but now it has changed from a seasonal product to a major item that is popular among consumers after apples, pears and watermelons. With the increase in planting scale and the improvement of production technology, it can now be
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President Yoweri Museveni has urged Britain to take advantage of Uganda’s rich agricultural potential and import more from Uganda, citing Uganda’s high-quality fertile soils and a favourable climate for growing fruits and vegetables and a range of tropical fruits. The produce could be sold
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As BASF Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors Dr Martin Brudermüller and Chief Financial Officer Dr Hans-Ulrich Engel explained when presenting the figures for the financial year 2022, BASF increased its sales by 11.1% to €87.3 billion. Higher prices in almost all areas were the main reason for the sales growth.
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In 2022, most of Vietnam's farm export items recovered after the pandemic and regained their strong growth. It was a prosperous year, but fruit and veg turnover continued to fall. The continued export turnover decreases in recent years are attributed to unreasonable development strategies.
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US-based CMI Orchards has announced Brett Reasor will join New Columbia Fruit Packers (Columbia Fruit) as its new CEO. 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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The South African avocado export industry has released its first estimate of the new season, predicting that the country will export around 18m cartons this year. read more