IG International and The Fresh Connection have signed a joint venture to boost exports of Indian fruits and vegetables to new and existing markets worldwide. read more

Taylor Farms has agreed to buy an undisclosed stake in Spanish salad and prepared food specialist Foodiverse. In a statement, Foodiverse said both companies will become partners through a capital increase in cash that will provide Taylor Farms with a significant share in Foodiverse’s capital. read more

International table grape breeder Sun World has announced the launch of its new Ruby Rush brand of red seedless grapes. read more

The South African avocado export crop has been reduced by around 2.5m cartons as the season reaches its halfway point. read more

Four years after major fruit producer Piñata Farms introduced Australian-designed technology to track the temperature and location of premium berries and mangoes along the supply chain, it has “more confidence than ever” in the quality and integrity of fruit despatched, according to a
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Italy is one of the biggest players in the global fruit and vegetable market. In 2022, the volume of just external trade in fruits and vegetables (fresh, dried, and frozen) in Italy totaled $11.6 bln (exports of $5.9 bln and imports of $5.7 bln). read more

Training, experience on experimental farms, information on the most sensitive topics of the new agriculture such as competitiveness and environmental issues; read more

The quality of ready-to-eat salads is often criticised by questioning the consistency and quality of the leaves used. often, however, what can compromise the quality requirements is not the bagging process, but the properties of the salad itself.
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Be Fruity! the tour that brings quality fruit and vegetables to Italian beaches has started with great public support. It kicked off last weekend in Rimini, at the Adriatic Village, and continued in Romagna in Cervia, at Balmor. This week, starting on Friday 21 July, the
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Following the signing of the Framework Contract for Emilia-Romagna, which regulates the sale of potatoes for fresh consumption for the three-year period 23-26, the Joint Commission (Potato Exchange) has defined the price for the product transferred to the Deposit Account: it will be 50 cents per kilo the
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"The heat wave that is affecting our country dangerously increases the health and safety risks for workers and, unfortunately, has already caused two deaths in recent days. This is unacceptable; read more

Agricola Moderna has signed a partnership with the Infrastrutture per la Crescita-Esg fund (Fondo Ipc) managed by Azimut Libera Impresa Sgr SpA. Around two thousand square metres dedicated to vertical farming The two co-founders of Agricola Moderna read more

Consumer trends, as we know, have a significant impact on the sales of products displayed on supermarket shelves, and it is now well established that protein lines are an established trend, just look at how many new proposals on the subject arise from one day to the next. For such
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Centrale Ortofrutticola, a company specialising in the production and marketing of fruit and vegetables based at the Ortomercato di Milano, expands by opening a new packaging centre in Melzo (Milan). read more

In the third decade of June 2023, the first offers of the popular Rizamat and Kishmish Kora (Black Kishmish) grape varieties of the new crop appeared on the domestic market of Uzbekistan, at about the same time as last year, with a difference of up to one week. Accordingly, these grape varieties
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Italy is one of the biggest players in the global fruit and vegetable market. In 2022, the volume of just external trade in fruits and vegetables (fresh, dried, and frozen) in Italy totaled $11.6 bln (exports of $5.9 bln and imports of $5.7 bln). read more

VOG apples are becoming increasingly international: this year Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras have joined the more than seventy-five export destinations of the Consortium, which produces 500,000 tonnes of apples a year in South Tyrol-Südtirol.
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According to the observations of specialists from the Association of Grape Producers and Exporters of the Republic of Moldova, by mid-July, the state of most table grape plantations in the country can be assessed as good or very good. If the weather in the second half of summer and during the
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Breakfast? 70% of Italians always eat it. When they do happen to skip it, it is due to lack of appetite (42%), time (39%) or habit (28%), especially the very young (between 11 and 19 years old) among the 'breakfast skippers'. According to Nielsen processing, the
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Faced with the impotence of the farmers of Picassent, the delegation of the Valencian Association of Farmers (AVA-ASAJA) in the town has promoted an initiative to collect and process complaints from those affected by the damage caused by wildlife in the town. At least the
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