Small children don't like kohlrabi! Radishes taste "bad" - parents may know these statements only too well. The "Vegetable beds for kids" project is different. For 15 years, the Edeka Foundation has been equipping kindergartens and day-care centres with raised vegetable beds. Here they learn
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After delays due to cool days and especially cold nights, strawberry growers are finally starting the harvest. After having already started in North Saxony and the Elbe Valley in week 22, the strawberry harvest in all other regions of Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt will also start at the weekend.
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Wednesday 7th of June is the last day of this year's Hort Connections Conference and Trade show in Adelaide. The trade show floor was less busy than yesterday as delegates attended the speaker sessions which ran concurrently, but there still plenty of networking going on the halls. read more

The cerasicola campaign is getting into full swing, despite all the difficulties caused by the bad weather that for the past month has given no respite to the main production areas in Italy. read more

Not only does cultivating organically expose you to more pitfalls than conventional methods, especially in bad weather, but also selling organic products is not at all easy. Giving us an overview of quality, prices and consumption in this period isAntonio Vitulano, owner
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Potato retail sales increased 16.0% in sales, but decreased in volume by -4.4% from January – March 2023 compared to the same timeframe a year ago. Despite a decrease, volume sales remain above pre-pandemic levels. read more

A citrus grower in Frostproof, Florida, is changing tack after Hurricane Ian and citrus greening devastated his crop. “We’re going to plant 700 avocado trees here in Central Florida, which is one of a kind,” said Mitchell McLellan, owner of McLellan Farm. The commercial production of
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New problems require innovative solutions. This is the direction to which the agricultural sector in Piedmont and elsewhere has long aspired, which has to cope with, on the one hand, the ever-increasing demand for food from a growing population and, on the other, climate change and
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In Belgium, loose and vine tomatoes' median prices rebounded last week. That, thus, halted the recent week's steady decline, as evidenced by VBT figures. As the year's longest day approaches, the next few weeks usually have the highest productions. read more

"Lime market prices rebounded in April and May," says Peter Bouman of Fruit Market International (FMI) in the Netherlands. "But they're back on a lower level. There are currently more than enough volumes coming in from Brazil. The recent relatively worse weather in southern Europe didn't help
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Table grape breeder International Fruit Genetics LLC (IFG) will open a new breeding and research laboratory this summer that will be a part of IFG’s $19 million campus, Fruitworks| IFG Discovery Center in McFarland, California. While the campus is set to open in the spring of 2024, the
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Today, 7 June, the World Food Security Day, proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 73/250, Oranfrizer Unifrutti Group is taking part in the conference 'Nutrition & Childhood - Nutrition Education for Well-Being'.
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The summer season is slow to arrive and consumption of products typically associated with summer is not taking off. These early days of June are reminiscent of autumn and there are references, such as pumpkins, that prove to be suitable for consumption 12 months a year. "For years, at Levantia we have been
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Ireland: ALDI's food waste partnerships have avoided over 1mln kg of food from going to waste read more

59% of those surveyed by Agroternella's Fruit and Vegetable Monitor CAWI 500 at the end of May,claim to have suffered a decrease in purchasing power over the past year. Due to inflation and the non-alignment of salaries, Italians feel a lightening the
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The centre of organic agriculture in Germany will be at the organic farm Grieshaber und Schmid in Ditzingen-Hirschlanden on 14 and 15 June. The Organic Field Days are taking place there for the fourth time and the 345 exhibiting companies, associations and organisations are attracting thousands of visitors.
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The first official-channel shipment of Vietnamese lychees has arrived in the UK. The fruit was imported by the UK’s TT Meridian Ltd. According to Thai Tran, managing director of the company, it first imported early ripening lychee from Vietnam to compete with those from Mexico and China that
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Melbourne, Australia was the site of the Associated International Group of Nurseries (AIGN®) 2023 annual meeting. Hosted by member ANFIC Limited, the conference featured detailed reviews of the company’s current breeding projects, joint ventures, and new opportunities. read more

Partnership between Fresh Del Monte and Zag Heroez Miraculous to create a fun fresh and packaged product promotion for millions of consumers and fans across Europe of Miraculous-The Stories of Ladybug & Chat Noir. The announcement was made by Hyde Schram, Vice President
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