"The market's sights are set on Lleida at a time when there is stone fruit consumption in Europe"
2023-06-15 00:00
The nectarine campaign has already started in the Spanish province of Lleida. It is doing so significantly in advance, in a campaign in which the region expects to recover its productive potential.
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AMI: Cucumber prices remain at a low level
2023-06-15 00:00
With the summer weather and warmer nights, cucumber production is in full swing. The supply volumes of both German produce and cucumbers from the Benelux region are currently high. For weeks, prices have been at a low level and can hardly move out of the
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Orchard Communication PROCAM 11 of 14.06.2023
2023-06-15 00:00
Take a look at the new orchard announcement from Dr Krzysztof Gasparski (PROCAM) dated 14.06.2023.
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Asda has seen a +12% uplift in sales of potatoes in the past year
2023-06-15 00:00
“Less and less Belgian products”
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Russia: Sticky traps installed in greenhouses of the Udmurtia area to monitor pest population
2023-06-15 00:00
June 2023, the Office of the Rosselkhoznadzor for the Kirov Region, the Udmurt Republic, and the Perm Territory installed 780 sticky traps in the greenhouses of JSC TK Zavyalovsky, LLC DCC, Flowers of Udmurtia, Lilia and IP Head of the KFH Nelyubin V.V., which are manufacturers of flower and
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Flood in Emilia Romagna, loans for farmers suspended
2023-06-15 00:00
Farmers with mortgages on buildings that have been evacuated or are uninhabitable, or agricultural activities that have become unproductive due to flooding or landslides, will also be able to apply to credit institutions for a suspension of instalments until they are fit for habitation
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According to data from the World Trade Organization (WTO), Mexico displaced Spain as the world's leading exporter of strawberries.
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Europatat: a comprehensive review of the potato sector
2023-06-15 00:00
On 5 and 6 June, under the theme "the changing geopolitical landscape and the future of potato trade", the first Polish edition of Europatat focused on the impact of geopolitics on international agri-food trade and the effect of the Green Climate goals.
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Fruit and vegetable exports recover in volume and value
2023-06-15 00:00
The positive signs on exports of fruit and vegetables, highlighted at the end of 2022, are confirmed in the first quarter of 2023 with a growth in volumes of 6.5% and in values of 10.7%, according to Fruitimprese data. The positive balance of trade (€ 354.4 million) is approximately double that of
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BASF starts a new era with the bio-insecticide Velifer®.
2023-06-15 00:00
Crop protection with biological products is a very important step towards sustainable agriculture and BASF plays an indispensable role in this respect in the development of a product portfolio. Organic crop protection products are not only a tool to maintain a sustainable crop protection system, but also a tool to protect the environment.
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Walnuts exports from China to Kyrgyzstan increased sharply in 2023
2023-06-15 00:00
According to EastFruit analysts, in 2023 Kyrgyzstan sharply increased walnut imports from China. During the first four months of the current calendar year, China shipped 25.5 thousand tons of walnuts to the Kyrgyz market. Of this volume, 14.4 thousand tons were inshell walnuts, and 10.9 thousand
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This week in Fruchthandel magazine: Germany, Netherlands and summer fruit from Italy
2023-06-15 00:00
The bad weather continues to affect the Bel Paese - an official estimate of the damage is still pending. In Emilia-Romagna in particular, May will certainly not be seen as a pre-summer blissful month, but rather due to the devastation caused by the floods and subsequent storms in
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AI-powered produce scanners to put an end to wasted strawberries
2023-06-15 00:00
OneThird, a food tech company created to address the annual loss of one-third of all food produced due to spoilage, today announced the deployment of its AI-powered scanner technology in the supply chain of Bakker Barendrecht, part of Greenyard and the sole supplier of fresh fruit and vegetables
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Murcia's Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research and Development (IMIDA), has presented farmers and technicians with new stone fruit varieties -such as peach, donut peaches, and plum, among others- that have high taste quality and are better adapted to climate change.
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EU and Britain still no contact on seed potatoes
2023-06-15 00:00
Before 2021, the EU imported around 30,000 tonnes of British seed potatoes each year, mainly from Scotland, and exported a similar amount of European seed potatoes to the UK.
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Melons, Fyffes obtain Global Gap certification
2023-06-15 00:00
FarmsFyffes Suragroh and Soleado, in Honduras, received the certification as a result of the transformation conducted by local management over the past two years. The purpose ofGLOBALG.A.P is to recognise the effort made by the companies to produce healthy food and, at the same time
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Lower value of Turkish lira only a temporary advantage according to fruit exporters
2023-06-15 00:00
The Turkish lira has been rather volatile over the past few months. With the Turkish elections finished, exporters hope the situation will calm down. However, as some of the Turkish exporters have explained, there are also opportunities to take advantage of and extra profits to be made. As
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“Direct sales of daily asparagus allow us to differentiate ourselves from supermarkets”
2023-06-15 00:00
Growing asparagus at Asparagus is a family affair. “My grandfather used to grow them, along with vines and hops. Today, only the asparagus crops have survived, and we now also produce cereals, strawberries and field tomatoes,” explains Jean-Paul Bruché, manager of the farm. This spring
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Murcia: IMIDA presents new stone fruit varieties
2023-06-15 00:00
IMIDA, Murcian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research and Development, presented new stone fruit varieties to producers and technicians in week 25, including peaches, paraguayos and plums, which have a high flavour quality and are better adapted to the
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Interessengemeinschaft Kölner Großmarkt e.V.: "We want the city of Cologne to commit to a wholesale market".
2023-06-15 00:00
There are currently several problems at the Cologne wholesale market. The biggest of these is the announcement by the city administration that it does not want to continue operations beyond 31 December 2025. In addition, the decision to relocate the wholesale market to Marsdorf was taken more than 15 years ago,
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