According to EastFruit analysts, farmers in Poland on June 29, 2023 blocked the first raspberry freezing enterprise in response to what they consider to be unsatisfactory prices for raspberries offered by processors. We are talking about the purchase price of 5 zł per kg, which is equivalent to
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The president of FEDACOVA, Rafael Juan, regrets the excessive regulation emanating from the European Union and affecting the agri-food industry, such as the 'Farm to Fork' strategy. "A regulatory environment on the part of Europe that is not very facilitating and which, if it is not remedied, is going to lead to a
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A trio of roboticists at CREATE Lab, EPFL, in Switzerland, has designed, built and tested a robot that can pick raspberries. In their project, reported in the journal Communications Engineering, Kai Junge, Catarina Pires and Josie Hughes designed and tested their robot based on a new idea to
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We would like to invite you to the Field Cucumber Day on 23 July (Sunday). We will be hosted at Damian Micik's farm in Szarkówka (32-250 Charsznica), who has set his sights on growing field cucumbers on foil, using fertigation. read more

Organic farming has answers for all the things that are “radically wrong” with current agricultural practices, according to Alex Cullen of the Soil Association. read more

A team of seven cyclists from The Worshipful Company of Fruiterers has cycled 125km around the Isle of Wight to raise over £21,000 for London-based food redistribution charity City Harvest. read more

African countries have been warned that the European Green Deal is on the way, and they should be better prepared to deal with the effects. read more

Organic farming has answers for all the things that are ”radically wrong” with current agricultural practices, according to Alex Cullen of the Soil Association. read more

A strategic partnership between Tenderstem and Action Against Hunger has left a lasting impact on hundreds of families facing food poverty in the UK, Spain and Kenya, following 12 months of community initiatives. read more

Defra farming minister Mark Spencer has reiterated the government’s commitment to supporting farmers in the wake of the publication of John Shropshire’s independent review into UK labour shortages in the food supply chain. read more

Defra farming minister Mark Spencer has reiterated the government’s commitment to supporting farmers in the wake of the publication of John Shropshire’s independent review into UK labour shortages in the food supply chain. read more

IGD has emphasised its commitment to raising awareness of the wide range of employment opportunities available in the food and consumer goods sectors. read more

A vision for nature-friendly food production set out by farming and environment groups was welcomed by the three largest UK political parties at the Groundswell farming festival in Hertfordshire yesterday (29 June). read more

The forthcoming European pear harvest will be one of the smallest in the last ten years, with a forecast of around 1.9m tonnes. read more

Former G’s CEO John Shropshire, OBE, has today (30 June) published his much-anticipated independent review into labour shortages in the UK food supply chain. read more

Belgian cooperative BelOrta is supporting an environmental awareness campaign this weekend as food partner at electronic music festival Paradise City in Flemish Brabant. read more

The Mexican apple packer is based in Cuautemoc, Chihuahua one of the country’s major apple production regions. The medium-sized business had originally used manual sorting equipment and invested in Reemoon’s intelligent sorting equipment to increase production capacity, control quality, and
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Yesterday, the Dutch Staay Food Group got its first shipment of grapes - the Black Magic variety - from Puglia in southern Italy. Buyer Sander Rutten visited those grape growers last week. Four growers cultivate grapes for the Staay house brand NERO Premium. They are all modern family businesses
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According to the first estimates made public today in Interpera, the international pear congress held in Lleida, the next pear harvest will be one of the lowest in the last 30 years with around 1,900,000 tonnes forecast. According to these initial estimates,
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Special gift for three Spanish national team players from the same town, Los Palacios y Villafranca. Gavi, Fabian Ruiz and Jesus Navas were presented with crates of tomatoes from the small Andalusian municipality. read more