Aldi has announced plans to donate £1 million to small and medium-sized businesses in 2023 to help fund local apprenticeship schemes. read more

BerryWorld has partnered with Dutch smart farm specialist Smartkas to produce Eve’s Delight strawberries in what is thought to be the largest vertical farm in the UK. read more

Agricultural inputs’ inflation (‘agflation’) has started to decline but continues to outpace general economic inflation (CPI) as well as agricultural outputs and food prices, according to research by The Andersons Centre. read more

The latest estimates from the Freshfel Europe Consumption Monitor suggest that the average consumption of fresh produce among Europeans fell by 10% in 2022 from 364g per capita per day in 2021. This is particularly worrying as it is well below the minimum 400 g recommendation of the WHO. These
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The share of EU agricultural land under organic farming increased by more than 50% between 2012 and 2020, with an annual increase of 5.7%. In 2020, 9.1% of the EU’s agricultural area was farmed organically. On average, though with substantial variation across Member States, organic farms are
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Lidl is encouraging shoppers to eat more fruit and vegetables by offering them the chance to win £10,000 if they spend £20 on fresh produce in February. read more

The Fairtrade Foundation has been awarded Superbrand status for 2022/23 in recognition of the strength of its brand and public perception in the UK. Superbrands, the world’s largest independent arbiter of branding, this week announced the recipients of this status, which is given annually to
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Sugar apple growers from Taiwan’s Taitung County have targeted Brunei as part of efforts to diversify exports in the wake of China’s import suspension. read more

Vanguard International and RK Growers (RKG) have entered a strategic partnership. read more

After a remarkable fundraising of 1.4 million euros [1.5 million USD] in 2019, Mycophyto has recently closed a new round of financing of 4.155 million euros [4.5 million USD]. Founded in 2017 by Christine Poncet and Justine Lipuma, the startup company develops natural biological solutions
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A tropical adventure with flavor, that's what the pepper brand Tatayoyo is all about. Rijk Zwaan is very proud that this snack pepper has been nominated for the Fruit Logistica Innovation Award 2023. They asked their chain partners and colleagues: What makes Tatayoyo so unique? And how is this
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For the last eight years, Apple Paradise has been promoting actions to celebrate Fruit Growers' Day in Spain and to give visibility to one of the most traditional professions, supporting and thanking these professionals for their work. This year, following an analysis in VI.P (Association of
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Things do not seem to be going right in the Dutch onion market, and last week, growers were getting €0.70. "Everyone thought things would change after the Berlin trade fair," says Jan Franje of Franje Onions. "But sales have been all over the place since early Monday morning. The news about
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Memojam is a new jam brand of the Georgian berry producer Memoberry LLC, which will soon enter the Georgian retail and export market. read more

Mohamed Al-Zayat, the Official Spokesperson for Libya’s Food and Drug Control Centre (FDCC), has stated that onions unfit for human consumption had entered Libya from Egypt. According to Al-Zayat, the FDCC had organized a campaign, launched in the past few days, targeting the largest vegetable
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Agtonomy, an ag tech software company with a focus on developing climate-smart solutions for specialty crop farmers, announces its new TeleFarmer™ Solution. TeleFarmer empowers farmers to remotely execute labor-intensive field tasks such as weeding, spraying, mowing and transporting. The
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HUERCASA will participate in Fruit Logistica, the most important event in the fruit and vegetable sector in Europe, which will be held once again in Berlin from the 8th to the 10th of February. The company, European leader in 5th range vegetables, will take advantage of this showcase to present its new products.
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UK: Tesco boss Jason Tarry could replace Potts as Morrisons CEO read more

Each product will have its own look and feel, but at the same time remain recognisable as a Koppert product. During this year, we will redesign our entire product portfolio, starting this February with our beneficial insects and predatory mites. "We are
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After last year's pilot experience, this is the first full season in which the Almerian company, Campojoyma, will export organic artichokes of the Green Queen variety, which is now part of its catalog of organic vegetables, fruits, and citrus fruits. read more