Saai has launched the world’s first artificial intelligence platform for family farmers. The WhatsApp-based platform Hi Saai uses billions of data points on the internet to develop a complex framework within which a complete answer to a set of farm-related questions is given within minutes. read more

Total Spanish O+G imports from January to November 2022 reached 3.5m tonnes (+7%) and a total value of €3.412bn (+15%). read more

In the south of the state of Nuevo León, the Secretariat of Regional and Agricultural Development (SEDRA) will promote the cultivation of red fruits. The reason for this is the fact that these are products of great commercial value. Marco González, head of the agency, explained that as part of
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The Supervisory Board of the international vegetables breeding company Enza Zaden announced that Andreas Sewing has been appointed Chief Scientific Officer and member of the Board of Directors at Enza Zaden, with effect from 1 May 2023. read more

Franka Rodriguez, Global Sourcing Director at Aldi Süd, speaks at Fruitnet World of Fresh Ideas about the company's recent efforts to pay banana producers a living wage for their produce. read more

In honor of its 100th anniversary, the company, NNZ, has been awarded the title of 'Koninklijk' (Royal) by His Majesty King Willem-Alexander. In front of colleagues, relatives, and close family, CEO Len Boot was presented with the certificate by René Paas, the King's Commissioner for the
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Vietnamese dragon fruit prices have tripled year-on-year in southern farms after China resumed border trading. Farmers in Tien Giang Province are selling the red-fleshed dragon fruit at VND38,000 ($1.62) per kilogram and white-fleshed for VND32,000, up 10% from before the Lunar New Year holiday
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To investigate the nutritional profile of each kiwifruit variety, researchers from the Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) selected 14 kiwifruit varieties, covering red-fleshed, green-fleshed and yellow-fleshed kiwifruits wildly cultivated in China. They detected and
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The EastFruit team continues to monitor the global and regional onion markets where tensions are heightened due to a series of bans and shocks, which we described in detail in the article “Global fresh onion market review – are prices about to skyrocket?”. read more

Yesterday, Cepifruit and the Fruit Growers Action Group took to the streets in Belgium. They were protesting against the too-low prices supermarkets pay fruit growers for their products. The demonstrators formed a tractor column from the village of Glons to the Comeos office in Auderghem, near
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The onion hysteria in the region has led to a wave of export bans, and it reached Azerbaijan. As EastFruit analysts have already reported, the exports of very expensive onions were banned by Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan. read more

The Rocca Imperiale lemon campaign is in full swing, but the trend is not looking very good. "Sales have slowed down over the past 10 days. While last year we used to ship 9 pallets every day, we now ship 5 on average. There is no substantial difference when it comes to orders between the
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The fruit export sector of Chile is busy assessing any potential damage that raging wildfires could have caused in the 7th largest production area in the south-central part of the country around the Chillan city in the Bío Bío region and Nuble province, where apples, blueberry, cherries and
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NN-Pack from Mannheim will present its woven plastic nets with a width of 40 cm at Fruit Logistica, among other things. As Managing Director Yanik Simon Pfeifer told us, they will also be presenting two new packaging machines: "One of the two machines will be available at the end of the year
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The South African pear season started early at OV Fruit. "We've received the first container of Williams Bon Chrétien pears last friday. From now on, we'll get larger weekly volumes," Oscar and Victor van Turenhout say. This season, this Dutch import company will receive a total pear assortment
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Cassava is the second most important crop for Liberia. However, the production of the crop is still faced with numerous challenges, something the World Bank funded project is working to address. The suboptimal capacity of sectoral organizations still remains a serious challenge for Liberia's
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When the industry meets at LogiMAT in Stuttgart in April to present innovations and new solutions for intralogistics, RAJA will show how sustainable packaging concepts ensure safe product protection and benefit the environment at the same time. The packaging expert
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Patatas Meléndez, a company from Valladolid headed by Javier Meléndez, is going through a key moment in the company's history: the inauguration of its new automated plant will position it as a reference in the sector in Europe. Precisely for this reason, and with the firm commitment of
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Durian prices have tripled to VND150,000-VND190,000 ($6.40-$8.10) per kilogram at southern farms as demand from China has increased. One durian trader in the southern city of Can Tho said that he has not been able to buy enough quantity to sell to domestic buyers, as farmers are only willing to
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Alibaba-backed Pakistani e-commerce platform Daraz cuts workforce by 11% read more