Jean-Claude Van Damme, a celebrated action movie star, candidly recounted to the Mirror an intense encounter with a producer during the making of 1991's "Double Impact." Frustrated with the producer's attempt to cut the film's budget due to financial losses elsewhere, read more

At the end of November, at two Carrefour hypermarkets in the province of Milan, the season of Spettacoli alla Frutta 2023 came to an end. After having touched the squares of Italy, this year it landed in the fruit and vegetable departments of modern distribution outlets. In the video
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It can be overlooked how important garlic is as an ingredient for dishes all over the world, Agata Czyzewska-Ziarnik, purchase specialist of Polish garlic trader Falcon, says: “Garlic is not a product of basic necessity, but only at first glance. We are often unaware that food products such as
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Barbera launches in Italy the offer of a double reference: the Group's Bionde and Rosse oranges are offered with a separation between table oranges, with medium-large gauges and ideal for eating in wedges, and juice oranges, with small gauges and perfect for juicing. read more

Bananas from Belize saw an increase in 14% this week, while those imported from Ecuador were down by 5%. Bananas from Guatemala also saw decrease of 3%. read more

The table oranges are the Gustose Barbera, the juicing oranges the Succose Barbera. The Group based in Adrano, in the province of Catania, is launching in Italy the offer of a double reference: the Bionde and Rosse oranges are proposed with a separation between the table oranges, with calibre
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We've been hearing a lot lately about artificial intelligence. The ability of computers to mimic human thought and decision-making, to automate tasks that traditionally required human intelligence, has stirred up all sorts of sensational news stories. In confirmation of this technology's
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In the first ten months of this year, Kazakhstan imported 51,095.4 tons of aromatic citrus fruits, valued at USD 34,579,800, as revealed by statistics shared by the Committee of State Revenues of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Notably, there has been a growth in citrus
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As a fifth-generation grower, Marion Regan of Hugh Lowe Farms believes and has always believed, that there's nothing not to like about strawberries. "But there's too much pressure through the supply chain, causing an imbalance, squeezing the grower, but also the consumer. We want the chain to
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Idol Valores, the parent company of the agricultural firm Fruca Marketing, has just redistributed its assets. The company, which had almost 145 million Euro of capital stock, has distributed more than 90 million Euro between three other newly created companies: La Forja Futuro SL, Malagón
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A new page under the banner of internal growth and the development of an increasingly solid corporate culture for Romagnoli F.lli Spa, a historic Bolognese company specialising in potatoes and one of the most important players on the national fruit and vegetable scene. The company presented
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The next stage of development is an important topic in the field of machine and system technology. "We would like to present our latest innovation to the industry at Fruit Logistica in Berlin. We have developed our 14-lane weighing machine AVN 112-CW14FF with weighing containers and cross
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The Spanish greenhouse vegetable season is in full swing. Paul van Groningen, who started this year with his wife Maria Elena in Spain as an independent commercial agent, visited several growers in the El Ejido and Motril region last week. "But if we have to give a proper estimate of pricing, no
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An early end to the Spanish and Italian grape seasons made room sooner for overseas grapes on the market this year. "Particularly Brazilian and Peruvian grapes came this way much earlier. That switch usually often happens in week 48/49. It was three to four weeks earlier this year, depending on
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As expected, Peru sent fewer mangoes from its northern Piura region to Europe. Henk van der Meij of Hars & Hagebauer knows this first hand. He visited the Peruvian growing areas last week. "There are long rows of empty trees, particularly in Piura. Some farms have as much as 70 to 80% less
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It is estimated that we had approximately 89,000 acres planted in Canada intended for the fresh sector, generating approximately 29.6 million potatoes available for fresh sales. read more

Almost one third of the 'Made in Italy' on the table is produced in the fields and in the stables by foreign hands, with 362,000 workers from all over the world regularly employed in agriculture, providing as much as 32% of the total number of working days needed in the sector in 2022.
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The current week in Ukraine has witnessed a rise in prices for white cabbage, but this upward price trend is specific to the high-quality production segment. Producers managed to increase the price for this product due to a noticeable reduction in the supply of white cabbage from small farms,
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A labour hire company has been fined more than $600,000 over the underpayment and mistreatment of workers.AL Star Express was found to have knowingly and repeatedly breached the Labour Hire Licensing Act by supplying workers to horticulture businesses around Melbourne, without holding a labour
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In the new instalment of the series 'Discovering the supply chains with La Grande Bellezza Italiana' we talk about the Pera Mantovana Igp, which recently joined the stable of products of the network of companies that, for five years now, have come together to research and
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