In the elegant Ridotto of the Municipal Theatre of Ferrara, packed to capacity, CSO Italy, with president Paolo Bruni, director Elisa Macchie and the entire staff, celebrated its 25th anniversary a few days ago, receiving the applause and support of authorities, associations and
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The Taiwanese Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found the hepatitis A virus in bags of frozen berries imported from Chile and sold at Costco supermarkets. More than 17,000 kilograms of the product had already been sold to the public in bags of 1.81 kg each. The supermarket company removed the
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The Embassy of Ecuador in the Netherlands is proud to announce the appointment of Juan Carlos Yépez Franco as its new Head of Commercial - Pro Ecuador in advance of delivering several significant networking events focused on sustainable trade. read more

All that glitters is not gold. Although pepper has experienced golden years in the province of Almeria with the 'sorpasso' to tomato, it could stagnate and even slightly recede in surface area in the coming season. This is what some seed companies are telling Fruit Today. The
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Flown-in fruit is a luxury item that, in these times of inflation, is having an increasingly tough time. Yet in 2018, Ana Lucia Alameda, originally from Peru, established her export company Ricas, which specializes in air freight fruit. Two years ago, she began marketing this under the company
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The spotlight will be on nuts and fruit and vegetable geographical indications at this edition of Macfrut: hazelnuts, walnuts, chestnuts, almonds, pistachios, locust beans as well as some of the sector's excellent PDO and PGI products will be the focus of a series of initiatives by
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Neighbourhood and administration. They are a combination that is increasingly present in big cities. After Esselunga's 'Le eccellenze', it is the turn of Erbert, also in the Milanese metropolis. It is a different format, based on healthy eating and a practical and
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The 1st "Agro Expo" has ended. This two-day event dedicated to greenhouse cultivation in the Sicilian coastal area between Licata (AG) and Portopalo (SR) was organized in Scoglitti (RG) in the company owned by the Gangarossa family. read more

EastFruit reviews Georgian trade data with seed potatoes. As reported earlier by EastFruit, many local farmers have switched to onions for the new season as in the last season the onions from the June harvest were more profitable than the potatoes from the same period. Despite the latter, seed
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The choice of an early, medium or late cycle is a strategic decision that the farmer makes on the basis of several factors. The most important of these are: profitability (sales price/production costs ratio) and work planning (if other crops are available).
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According to the latest State of the Crops report shared by the Agricultural and Fisheries Information website of the Junta de Andalucía, during the week of April 17 to 23, greenhouse producers in the Poniente Almeriense were delaying the uprooting of the single-crop pepper plantations as long
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In the Netherlands, 4Fruit Company received the first Spanish Galia melons on Friday. There are plenty of watermelons available, but the yellow and Piel de Sapo melon supply is still limited. Pieter de Ruiter says prices are still at a nice level, though there could be slightly more demand.
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Growup® (click here to download the beochure) is Xeda Italia's project born from the know-how of the technical team in collaboration with Terrasmart for the design and implementation of Agriculture 4.0 solutions applying the most advanced and innovative monitoring technologies for the
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“Today the sector is in a critical situation because these two years of crisis, first the pandemic then the war within European borders, have meant that costs are quite high, that the sector has lost competitiveness. The only way that our company sees to be able to make up for these high
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Having a bunch of grapes picked and packed by a robot already requires a lot of technology. But it can be even more complicated: automatically preparing a ready-made salad. Researchers from the Wageningen University & Research Agro Food Robotics programme will take up this challenge over the
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As part of the added value strategy, the Swiss Mushroom Producers Association (VSP) developed the grass paper tray in cooperation with Coop. From now on, the packaging trays of Swiss organic mushrooms brown 225 g and Swiss organic mushrooms white 225 g, will be available in Coop sales outlets on an ongoing basis.
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The Schumacher Packaging Group successfully continued its growth course in 2022. Despite high volatility and difficult economic conditions on the world markets, the company was able to increase its annual sales by almost 40 % to around 1.2 % after sales deductions compared to the previous year.
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The partnership between the seed fund of the Future Foundation for Agriculture and the organic food retailers of the BioMarkt association has existed for 21 years. In 2023, the milestone of a total of 1 million euros was reached. The fact that the costly breeding work is worthwhile is shown, among other things, in 150
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Revenues of EUR 605 million for Eataly in 2022 (+30.2% compared to 2021) and an Ebitda of around EUR 25 million. This is how much the chain's preliminary results amount to, according to a report in the newspaper Distribuzione Moderna. read more

The group is in the process of restyling a number of shops in its network, bringing them into line with Format 35, designed byDespar Centro-Sud, in collaboration with the University of Parma and the store design experts of Spar International. In this context, the fresh departments have a
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