"Last year's event made us all realise how important Prognosfruit and its three-day programme are for the apple and pear sector. Prognosfruit offers delegates the opportunity to meet and discuss the latest developments and future
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New Zealand Apples and Pears is welcoming the Government's support to clean up orchards, but is calling on the government to urgently talk to growers as they recover and rebuild following the devastation of Cyclone Gabrielle. read more

ZIM Integrated Shipping Services Ltd. (ZIM) has announced its latest investment in the shipping industry with the order of 1,000 Star Cool reefers with Sekstant door sensors and a similar volume for retrofitting to its existing Star Cool reefers. read more

Industry experts paint a gloomy outlook for South Africa’s mushroom industry, largely as a direct result of load shedding, high input costs and the closure of two mushroom farms. In the mushroom industry, farms are closing, shortages are becoming more prevalent and consumers are having to pay
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Failure by the NZ Government to provide further direction in cyclone ravaged Hawke’s Bay is costing the local horticulture industry more than $1m a day. read more

Wholesum, Fair Trade Certified growers and shippers of organic farm-fresh vegetables, is building in-house capabilities to produce organic seeds. read more

Following the rain at the start of this year, the mango harvest out of Mexico was slightly delayed compared to its historical start date. “However the mango inventory is currently plentiful and the market is well-supplied,” says Hector Soltero, Vice President of Sales Operations, Mission
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Chile already has 110 hectares of Sweet Pekeetah plums, a variety developed in Chile from Japanese plums. This variety is grown in the Metropolitan, O’Higgins, and Maule regions, and has been successfully shipped to China, Taiwan, the US, and Brazil. China is its main destination with 92% of
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HM.Clause's challenge is to create disease-resistant and aphid-repellent melon varieties without losing the fruit's distinctive sweet taste. And that is what it has succeeded in doing with the retatoRubino F1 and the Charentais Dolcir F1, which have already been on the market for a few years. From
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On the basis of Article 53 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has issued an emergency authorisation for the plant protection product Insegar. read more

The uncontrolled growth of tomato imports from Morocco and the Community policy in the field of plant health and packaging, resulting from the Farm to Fork Strategy, threaten Community tomato production, which is on a downward trend in production and
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In less than five months, Spanish agriculture will undergo a significant change: it will have to report digitally how, what and where it produces through the Agricultural and Livestock Farming Information System (SIEX) and the Digital Farming Notebook (Cuaderno Digital de Explotación).
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The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) mentions purchasing alliances as an example of good practice for improving the competitiveness of retail and wholesale trade in a recently adopted opinion on 30 years of the single market. The text calls for support for alliances
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Small fruits were the protagonists at Macfrut 2023; during the event several solutions were tested in the experimental fields of the exhibition. Great performance for Arrigoni's agro-textiles. "The areas of small fruits are expanding even in areas with little vocation because of the climate
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According to Juan Francisco Delgado , Vice-President of the INTEC Foundation and director of the report "The agri-food system is facing a change of model in the face of the challenges related to the fight against climate change, drought and extreme temperatures, and the price crisis, where the
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Assisted evolution technologies promise to be the key tool to increase the sustainability of agricultural systems. A crucial challenge for the competitiveness of the national agri-food sector and for scientific research in our country: creating varieties resistant to the
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Agriculture and Food Minister Maria do Céu Antunes has signed an order recognizing a drought situation in 40% of the country’s southern region late last week. This will also activate measures to support farmers, she announced yesterday. read more

Zespri’s SunGold™ Kiwifruit arrived in the Port of Los Angeles last week and will be available to eager shoppers by mid-May. The company's multi-channel consumer campaign will help drive new shoppers to stores with digital advertising and sampling events. read more

In Hamburg, the Rewe delivery service has been part of the cityscape for over seven years. Now the first autonomously driving "shopping baskets" are starting in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel and will cause astonished passers-by in the coming weeks, according to the company. In cooperation with TÜV Süd, the
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A record year for agribusiness, which saw Italian exports grow by +17% in 2022 over 2021, surpassing EUR 61 billion in value; read more