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On land where one of Gauteng’s most important aquifers surfaces, where traces of human occupation hark back to the Stone Age and the Iron Age, a farming enterprise is planning on becoming South Africa’s dominant supplier of cherries during October, when it’s not available anywhere else in
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Slight improvement in the economic performance of the agri-food industry in Q3 2023, with a slight increase in GDP compared to the previous quarter (+0.1%) and Q3 2022 (+0.1%), but corresponding to a decrease in added value of -3.1% (trend data),
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At the opening conference of Marca 2024, the president of Coldiretti, Ettore Prandini, spoke in depth on the topic of the strategic relationship between production and distribution for the development of the competitiveness of Made in Italy, thinking not only of the economic plan but also of
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The Moldova Fruct Association, citing the customs service of the Republic of Moldova, reports that in December 2023, more than 7.5 thousand tons of fresh apples were exported from the country for a total amount of about US $4.5 million. In November 2023, Moldova exported little more of these
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In December 2023, US container import volume increased by 0.4% from November 2023. The slight aggregate increase masks counter intuitive swings in volume at West, East and Gulf Coast ports. The top East and Gulf Coast ports saw increases, while the top West Coast ports saw decreases. read more

Mainline operators can expect a windfall for the first quarter of 2024, as the surge in freight rates far exceeds the costs of detouring round the Cape of Good Hope. Freight rates increased across the board, with Transpacific rates (according to the Shanghai Containerised Freight Index)
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Bee Vectoring Technologies International Inc. is pleased to announce South African multi-national agricultural technology business Microbial Biological Fertilizers International (MBFi) has commenced trials of BVT products in South Africa. They will be evaluating BVT’s patented bee vectoring
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Hapag-Lloyd AG (Hapag-Lloyd) and Maersk A/S, an entity under A.P. Moller - Maersk (Maersk), have signed an agreement for a new long-term operational collaboration called ”Gemini Cooperation”, which will start in February 2025. The ambition is to deliver a flexible and interconnected ocean
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South African pome fruit producers are looking forward to exports bouncing back. This is on the back of a lower pome fruit export crop due to hail damage in some of the major fruit producing areas during 2023. read more

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EastFruit experts have repeatedly drawn attention to the rapid expansion of the greenhouse business in Turkmenistan, where the main emphasis is on growing greenhouse tomatoes thanks to access to cheap natural gas. In particular, we wrote about the prospect of doubling the area under greenhouse
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Plant Genetics, the licence holder for the Volcani Institute in South Africa, has come under the full ownership of Denau Holdings. The Volcani Agriculture Institute was established in 1921 and is Israel's national Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), the driving force behind Israel's
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First Adele, then U2 and now Autumncrisp® brand grapes. Sun World International continues its global campaign for Autumncrisp with a three-day residency in Las Vegas later this month at the 2024 Winter Fancy Food Show, one of the world’s largest B2B-only specialty food industry events. read more

"This year, unlike in the past, we went beyond the mere idea of business and services. We decided to take advantage of the Berlin trade fair to present the concept of 'Sicily in the World.' We were driven by the idea that it is impossible to separate the two, since companies are born and develop
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As the fresh produce industry eagerly anticipates meeting in Berlin, Clarifruit looks forward to unveiling new features for AI-driven quality control. With these updates, Clarifruit aims to advance towards its mission to enable the fresh produce supply chain stakeholders to make data-driven
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In the citrus market, Egypt and Spain are in the game with oranges. "The Egyptian oranges' share is increasing. Spanish importers can also meet their needs at prices that they can't compete with in Spain. All in all, a unique situation," begins Marcel van der Welle of Van Ooijen Citrus in the
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"It has been a complicated year for berries, especially for the imported product due to the well-known climatic problems - starting with El Niño - which have led to chronic product shortages. This situation, in itself
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The last year of experimentation for the project Increasing the agro-ecological sustainability of intensive vegetable crops in the lower Lazio region - coordinated by Italia Ortofrutta - National Union of Scientific Responsibility of Crea Of that involved 10
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What do people today demand of modern distribution as the protagonist of their food shopping? Not to force them to choose between quality and price in the face of the current economic squeeze. This is exactly what the new private label that MDpresents at Marca will respond to today.
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