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"In the last ten days, the price of garlic has increased by 150 dollars per tonne".
2024-03-01 00:00
In recent days, affected by heavy snowfall, the price of high-quality garlic has increased by approximately USD 150 per tonne for 10 consecutive days. Wang, sales director of Jining Shangzhuo Food Co., Ltd., shares with FreshPlaza the current situation of the garlic market.
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The Albani PO, a company whose turnover has been increasing by 25% each year for the past four years, is among the most fastest growing producers and traders in south-east Sicily. Thanks to the over 80 partners covering 200 hectares in total, the volumes produced are significant and cover the
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South Mill Champs and Grupo APAL form strategic joint venture to expand mushroom production in Mexico
2024-03-01 00:00
South Mill Champs, a leading North American grower and supplier of fresh mushrooms and functional mushroom foods, announced that it has entered into a cross-border partnership with Grupo APAL to form a 50/50 Mexican joint venture, Royal Champs S. de R.L. de C.V.
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"The influx of volumes has led to a decline in demand in the citrus export market".
2024-03-01 00:00
The citrus export season in China reached its peak just before the Chinese New Year holidays in early February, coinciding with a significant drop in prices. Since mid-February, citrus fruit prices have experienced a significant drop in prices.
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"Whether we are talking about Spanish round, pear or cherry tomatoes, the problems are the same".
2024-03-01 00:00
Right now there is not a very buoyant market either for Spanish vegetables, both greenhouse and open field, or for Spanish citrus. "Yesterday we had a good day of sales but today things are rather calmer. February had a quiet start
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'Revenue and profitability in line with annual targets'
2024-03-01 00:00
The Bonduelle Group's revenue for the 1st half of fiscal year 2023-2024 amounted 1,213.1 million euros compared with 1,243.4 million euros for the 1st half of previous fiscal year, up +4.5% on a like-for-like basis and down -2.4% on reported figures.
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Interest in cauliflower is stagnating in some German markets
2024-03-01 00:00
On the German markets, deliveries of French and Italian cauliflower formed the basis of the range. Spanish deliveries completed the picture, while Belgian ones appeared in smaller quantities only in Cologne. Spanish products were absent in Hamburg.
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Number of UK carrot growers drops due to tight margins
2024-03-01 00:00
The British Carrot Growers Association (BCGA) is confronting challenges as squeezed profits lead to a reduction in carrot cultivation. To combat this, BCGA is initiating a campaign to protect carrot growers' future, highlighted by the National Carrot Awareness Day scheduled for October 3, 2024.
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"The Japanese market now accounts for 100% of our kiwi exports".
2024-03-01 00:00
The Georgian company Nergeta started growing kiwifruit near the country's Black Sea coast in 2011. Within two years, it established a 20-hectare orchard and also built its own cold store and packing plant. His first trial shipments were sold in a chain
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"As in an entropic system, bureaucracy in Italy will never decrease, on the contrary, it will increase because it employs a host of bureaucrats. It is useless to have illusions. What to do then? We must learn to 'ride it out', to take advantage of it, by informing ourselves and taking timely advantage of every opportunity
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New management, more transparency, better cooperation, and ongoing improvements have helped to turn around the backlog at the Cape Town port (CTP) for fruit exports.
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Impact of weather and economic challenges evident in T&G results
2024-02-29 17:00
According to T&G Global chair Benedikt Mangold, the loss incurred by the company in the year to 31 December 2023, largely a result of last February’s Cyclone Gabrielle, would have no bearing on T&G’s strategy going forward.
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Prices for red, seedless grapes fall
2024-02-29 13:00
Due to sometimes very long transit times, there are always urgent lots that need to be marketed quickly. Relief sales are also the order of the day. Following the declining prices for light-coloured seedless varieties over the past ten days, the prices for
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Environmental Action Germany: "Federal government's decision torpedoes species protection and sustainable agriculture"
2024-02-29 13:00
Sascha Müller-Kraenner, Federal Managing Director of Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH), comments: "Under pressure from the agricultural lobby, the German government is sacrificing one of the most important minimum ecological requirements provided for in EU agricultural funding. The regulation that four per cent of agricultural
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Could lightning revolutionise fertiliser production?
2024-02-29 11:00
Technology that harnesses lightning’s nitrogen-fixing properties could revolutionise fertiliser production and supply, cut carbon emissions and support soil health, researchers claim.
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Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Fewer farms grew slightly more bush berries than in the previous year
2024-02-29 11:00
That is three fewer farms than in 2022, but 1.6% more acreage for bush berries than in the previous year. According to the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Statistical Office, a total of 165.5 tonnes of bush berries were harvested in 2023. The harvest volume was therefore 2.3% below the previous year's result
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QS self-monitoring checklist now in the app store
2024-02-29 11:00
An integrated news portal supplements the checklist function and informs users promptly about relevant news relating to the QS scheme.
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BGA: Supply chain directive rightly without majority
2024-02-29 11:00
The EU should no longer pursue the directive in this form, according to Dr Dirk Jandura, President of the German Wholesale, Foreign Trade and Services Association (BGA).
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Israel heads for record avocado harvest
2024-02-29 10:00
This was reported by reefertrends, citing data from the Ministry of Agriculture. The previous record was therefore around 210,000 tonnes in 2022. Moshe Brookenthal, head of the fruit sector at the Crop Production and Marketing Office, stated that "despite the
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NFU says horticulture needs Buyers Code of Practice
2024-02-29 10:00
The NFU has called on the government to introduce a Horticultural Buyers Code of Practice.
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