Planasa celebrates its 50th anniversary in one of the best moments in its history. The company closes 2023 with excellent results as one of the most innovative in the sector: Planasa expects to exceed 70 million EBITDA for this year. It has 4.000 employees and operates in 25 countries,
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F.lli Orsero is celebrating the magic of the festive season inside the fruit and vegetable markets of Milan, Verona, Bologna, Florence, Rome, Cagliari, Macerata and Pescara, with a rich calendar of initiatives dedicated to wholesalers and fruit merchants. Since yesterday, the Fruttital stands have come alive thanks to a
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According EastFruit, the grape industry expects a Moldova report to say that many large growers are not in a hurry to sell their table grapes. They estimate that that the large farmers of Moldova had sold no more than 20-30% of their table grapes harvest as of today. This is not at all
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In the 2022/2023 season, the province of Murcia revalidated its position as the main melon exporter in Spain, contributing 47.39% of the national total. However, according to a report by Hortoinfo based on data from the Estacom statistical service (Icex-Tax Agency), there's been a downward trend
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Under the "Own Orchard" program, over 73 hectares of blueberry plantations have been established, the largest among all Ukrainian regions participating in the support program. read more

Linde Material Handling launches its innovative line of custom-designed logistics trains, ideal for indoor and outdoor environments. These trains, equipped with chassis modules and towing tractors, offer application-specific solutions, improving efficiency and
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Ukraine, recognizing its capabilities in walnut cultivation, is actively expanding the export of this valuable product. According to Gennadiy Yudin, the president of the Ukrainian Nut Association, the area of industrial nut orchards in the country is currently 13.1 thousand hectares, with
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Twenty-two years ago, after working for more than a decade in an important garlic cooperative in the Spanish region of La Mancha, and seeing the growing competition from dried garlic imported from China, Miguel Antonio Olivares decided to take a step in a different direction in the garlic
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The 25th season of shipping citrus from South Africa to the USA came to a close in October. Altogether, +/- 100,000 pallets of citrus were shipped to the US market this season. “I can honestly say that I think this is the best export program in South Africa,” says Alex van Drimmelen
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"Plants derived from new genomic techniques are an essential tool for improving the sustainability of production processes in agriculture and contributing to food security and European food sovereignty, which we now consider to be under threat. read more

Trops, the company from Vélez-Málaga that specializes in avocado and mango, is once again news due to its expansion plans. The company, which recently announced its goals to strengthen its presence in Cadiz, has now revealed similar plans for Tavira, Portugal, where it plans to add a new
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The festive season is approaching: a climate of joy and serenity and the desire to share the warm Christmas atmosphere with loved ones, perhaps in front of a laid table, where some tasty but healthy treats are a must. Current trends reveal, in fact, an increasingly
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,Avoiding manual thinning in the apple tree is feasible, while in the peach tree it is still a chimera (especially since the risk of late frosts has returned). Certainly, this technique cannot be disregarded in order to achieve adequate quality production, in terms of size and flavour, on
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The harvest of Spanish Pink Lady apples was completed in November and the 2023/24 marketing season has already begun. "This year, despite the problems there have been with the water supply, the production on our farms in Girona will be normal, in line with that of previous years, and even
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This series gives the average wholesale prices of bananas by country of origin. The prices are national averages of the most usual prices charged for bananas at wholesale markets in Birmingham and London. This publication is updated weekly. read more

British Berry Growers – which represents 95 per cent of commercial UK softfruit producers – has strongly criticised comments on supermarket pay to farmers made by the British Retail Consortium to the BBC Countryfile programme yesterday (10 December). read more

Table grape industry organisations from Chile and Peru will meet for the first time at the 2024 Global Grape Convention to collaboratively seek solutions to the problems of the grape sector as well as provide market information. read more

The 2023 harvest in the Italian, French and Spanish orchards is complete. Despite a particularly warm start to autumn and some heavy rainfall, the Pink Lady® apples harvested are of optimum quality: beautiful colouring, high sugar content and good
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The special sugar was only discovered at the University of Tübingen in 2019. The active ingredient 7dSh (7-deoxy-sedoheptulose) is a natural alternative to glyphosate. "The sugar is of biological origin, biodegradable in nature and, according to previous tests, toxicologically harmless," explains Celine
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The Green Media House (GMH) and the Association of German Mushroom and Cultivated Mushroom Growers (Bund Deutscher Champignon- und Kulturpilzanbauer e.V.) report that cultivated mushroom growers are making great efforts to make the harvesting of their mushrooms more efficient. Anyone who talks to them hears about one- and two-layer systems, about tipping systems that minimise
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