"Give instructions to the peripheral structures of the Regional Department of Agriculture to carry out an immediate and punctual survey of the actual damages suffered by the enterprises and activate all legislative measures and funds for the reparation of damages, from the new measures
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From orange peels come lamps. It's not science fiction but just the intuition of the Milanese design studio Krill Design that transforms waste into new products thanks to an innovative process of valorisation. read more

Chinese President Xi Jinping's so-called agricultural police numbers 87,000 officers. They check that growers in China cultivate only government-approved crops. These often unprofitable crops like rice, soy, or corn are meant to boost self-sufficiency. It is strictly forbidden to plant products
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Más Brócoli, the association for the promotion of broccoli consumption, held its XIV Assembly on Friday, May 19. The event was attended by partners and customers and involved the participation of experts, institutional personalities, and personalities from the Region of Murcia's agri-food sector. read more

With the recent warm spell on the West Coast, cherries in the Pacific Northwest look to be in a better position than a week ago. “It looks like we’re getting to peak volumes sooner than we thought and there are signs of positivity that retail will have supplies of cherries for the 4th of
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Bananas from Ecuador, avocados from Kenya, berries from Morocco, sugar snap peas from Egypt and plums, cherries and apples from the Ukraine - according to its own information, the Import Promotion Desk (IPD) will be presenting a large selection of fresh fruit & vegetables at the virtual B2B meeting of the
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The export season for Pakistani mangoes commenced on Saturday after the country dispatched the first air shipment to Europe. “The mango export season started today with the first air shipment to Europe,” said Waheed Ahmed, patron-in-chief of the All Pakistan Fruit and Vegetable Exporters
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The disastrous weather conditions of recent weeks, with constant rainfall and peaks of humidity, have created fertile ground for the proliferation of downy mildew. In recent seasons, with the dry months of April and May, the development of the disease had been very limited. But in the
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BASF's Axalion® has just been classified byIRAC (Insecticide Resistance Action Committee) as an insecticidal active substance with a new mode of action. As a result of BASF's R&D efforts, Axalion® is currently the only molecule included in the new "Group 36", which
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Heavy late spring rain across Hungary last week caused significant cracking damage to early season cherry orchards. “The damage is reportedly widespread, even some sweet cherries under plastic cover suffered losses,” according to Peter Kelemen, from the Medifruct cooperative in Hungary, who
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They are at the heart of it: the farmers and farmwives of the Vinschgau. They have forged themselves, generation after generation, overcoming the challenges of mountain apple growing. Passionate, determined, competitive, proud. It is due first and foremost to them that VIP can offer, on the markets of the middle
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"The tomato and cherry tomato supply continues to increase in the European markets, not only from Spain but from many countries, so competition is greater, and prices are falling because there is more supply than demand," says Miguel Angel Perez Segura, owner of Quality Fresh, regarding the
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Grape packaging and farming company Achill Island Investments Pty Ltd has received the title ‘Namibia’s fastest-growing company of 2023’. The company achieved a compound annual growth rate of 89% between 2018 and 2021, and it was also announced as such by global statistics company Statista
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According to EastFruit analysts, wholesale prices for apples in Ukraine are currently more than twice as high as at the same of 2022. Ukraine’ s apple harvest in 2022 was good and many wonder why did prices increase so much? Also, are there good opportunities for apple exporters from Poland
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Etna once again put on a show this year with a strong eruption followed by a shower of ash that covered the Etnean hinterland. Loud rumblings and a dense cloud enveloped the volcano from last Sunday; a cloud that, shortly afterwards, turned into a battering
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It's an exceptional year for Sicilian bell peppers - the season started in March, and quotations have been high. FreshPlaza talked to OP Albani, located in Vittoria, to better understand the 2023 trend.  read more

The countryside was looking to the sky for water, and finally the rains have arrived, but in torrential form in the southeast of the peninsula. This Tuesday the rains have fallen with intensity and this Wednesday the orange warnings for heavy rain will continue to be active in provinces such as Valencia and
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The flood that hit the Emilia-Romagna region hard last week did not leave Maap, the Padua Food Market, indifferent, as it donated two tonnes of fruit and vegetables to Russi, a small municipality of 12,000 inhabitants in Ravenna, which distributed the produce among the
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Rocco Zuccarella, president of Zuccarella Società Cooperativa Agricola from Scanzano Jonico (Matera) reports that there are still less than 20 days to go until the end of the 2022/23 strawberry campaign. read more

Most of South Africa’s tomatoes are coming from Limpopo, followed by the Onderberg in Mpumalanga. read more