As the asparagus season gets underway, Astrid Etèvenaux, director of the Asperges de France association, takes stock of the harvest forecasts for the 2024 campaign, and of the trends in French production and consumption. Decrease in cultivated surface areas"Overall, our association is
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A unique agricultural knowledge-sharing program was conducted by Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) to enrich the lives of senior citizens. The event at Darul Insyirah Senior Citizens Care and Education Centre in Bandar Baru Bangi, Selangor, was titled "Cakna Warga Emas: From Putra to Bonda." It
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With more than 55,000 tonnes of fruit marketed each year and a passion handed down from generation to generation, Orchidea Frutta specialises in the production and distribution of table grapes, cherries, citrus fruits, peaches, nectarines, apricots, artichokes and has always aimed to
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Spring arrived in style on March 26 2021 in Kyoto, Japan, as cherry trees reached the peak of their bloom. This marked the earliest recorded date when most flowers have opened in a series of annual records dating back to 812 AD – over 1,200 years. The culprit is climate change. Milder, wetter
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After the LoliPop apple, it was the HoneyCrunch's turn to put on a show at Rungis last week! Together with the Juliet, the three varieties are on a mission to represent the Innatis group to wholesalers. "We usually highlight our varieties but for this event, we decided to showcase Innatis
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The end of winter is proving negative for three important horticultural products for Almeria and Granada: long aubergines, striped aubergines, and green zucchini. The changing weather conditions are causing quality problems in the fruits and occasional oversupply issues. Starting Thursday,
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Idroterm 4.0, a family of innovative 4.0 products developed by Idroterm Serre, is a new opportunity to renew greenhouse irrigation systems and optimize water management thanks to machinery for precision agriculture. "We have developed web-based machinery, through which users connect to the
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Fieldwork Robotics has been awarded a £600,000 government grant by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and Innovate UK. The BerryAI Project will support the development of Fieldwork's technology, bringing AI-powered vision and advanced decision-making technology to
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Lychees were introduced into Australia more than 150 years ago and over this time the industry has developed from a "small exotic fruit" industry into a progressive and robust industry. The Australian Lychee industry is represented by the industry's Peak Industry Body, the Australian Lychee
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Imported kiwi supply is on the tighter side at the moment. "Supply is extremely challenging. Greece ended the season earlier than expected and Italy had a short crop," says Trucco CEO Nick Pacia. He noted that this season Greece had unusually larger-sized fruit in its crop. That said, Pacia says
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Spring arrived in style on March 26 2021 in Kyoto, Japan, as cherry trees reached the peak of their bloom. This marked the earliest recorded date when most flowers have opened in a series of annual records dating back to 812 AD – over 1,200 years. The culprit is climate change. Milder, wetter
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According to EastFruit analysts, unfavorable weather conditions currently observed in the Malatya region of Turkey could have a huge impact on the global dried fruit market and the regional fresh apricot market. The Turkish city of Malatya is known as the "apricot capital of the world" since up
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Kakuzi, an agro-food processor based in Muranga, is poised to export its inaugural shipment of avocados to India by the end of this month. The consignment will include twenty tons of the Hass avocado variant, destined for Nhava Sheva port. Chris Flowers, the managing director, emphasized the
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A recent analysis by Hortoinfo based on data from COMTRADE, the United Nations Statistics Division, revealed that Morocco has taken over Spain's place in the ranking of main suppliers of tomatoes to the United Kingdom, and the gap has been widening over the last three years. In 2021, Morocco
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A Bournemouth-based business, the world's first-ever British-only flower subscription service, has won a gold award for sustainability. MeadowSweet won gold in the SME sustainability journey category at the Big Sustainability Awards. Sophie Townsend, the founder of MeadowSweet, said: "We're over
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The Citrus Growers' Association of Southern Africa (CGA) welcomed Gerrit van der Merwe as the new Chairman of its Board for a two-year term. He is the Managing Director of ALG Estates (ALG) for the last six years. The CGA welcomed Gerrit van der Merwe as their new Chairman. ALG is situated in
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Lavendel Plus has focused on the sale of large potted lavender plants since 2000 at a large 30-hectare nursery near Breda. The plants primarily go to the Netherlands and Belgium, but also England, France, Germany, and Scandinavia. We meet Jeroen Zoon, commercial manager at Lavendel Plus since
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A Bournemouth-based business, the world's first-ever British-only flower subscription service, has won a gold award for sustainability. MeadowSweet won gold in the SME sustainability journey category at the Big Sustainability Awards. Sophie Townsend, the founder of MeadowSweet, said: "We're over
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A new chapter, marked by innovation. Salvi Vivai has inaugurated its new micropropagation laboratory, Prolab, in Lagosanto (Fe): "After more than fifty years of experience in the nursery sector, we felt the need for expansion. We want
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A Bournemouth-based business, the world's first-ever British-only flower subscription service, has won a gold award for sustainability. MeadowSweet won gold in the SME sustainability journey category at the Big Sustainability Awards. Sophie Townsend, the founder of MeadowSweet, said: "We're over
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