In anticipation of Kenya's avocado export season, Kakuzi PLC, a prominent agribusiness entity, has announced its initiative to offer complimentary maturity testing services to smallholder farmers. This move aligns with the Agriculture and Food Authority's (AFA) recent directive, which mandates
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Qatar's local farms are grappling with significant barriers to exporting their surplus vegetable production, primarily due to insufficient export infrastructure. Despite the Ministry Municipality's green light last year for exporting surplus local vegetables, the associated costs - encompassing
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The pear season in the southern hemisphere is set to kick off shortly with the first shipments from South Africa. "Due to the weather this season, vegetation has significantly advanced, allowing for harvesting to begin seven to ten days earlier," reports Malte Wegener from the family business of
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The upcoming Ramadan usually boosts demand for the date assortment at Tovano in the Netherlands. After all, each day of fasting is traditionally broken by splitting open a date. "But I don't bring in extra containers just for Ramadan," says Richard Strijbis read more

Last November, the SICA Saint Pol de Léon opened a new endive production site. This new production facility in Kerlouan includes refrigerated rooms for root storage, growing rooms and a packaging site, which will enable the cooperative to expand its production. read more

What are Italian farmers protesting about? It is a question that I have been asked several times in recent weeks, especially by non-professionals, but not only. First of all, I answer that they have to be patient to get a complete answer, because the sector
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Recent data shows UK wages are on the rise, potentially lifting living standards, yet the Bank of England harbors concerns. Despite steady inflation rates, there's speculation on the UK's economic recession status at last year's end. The Office for National Statistics reports a consistent 4%
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Following a slow start to the Florida strawberry season with a shorter supply, production is about to increase. “It has been cool and cloudy here which has affected the yield. We didn’t get as many berries as we should have but it’s warming now and it has been increasing,” says Justin
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Not all Turkish regions are currently in season when it comes to the strawberry export. The area of Izmit is currently preparing for the new upcoming season in April, says Amir Faltas, General Manager of Turkish strawberry exporter N.E. Farm: “We grow our strawberries in Turkey, in an area
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Potato stocks in Idaho on February 1, 2024 totaled 82.0 million cwt. Disappearance of the Idaho crop to date was 63.0 million cwt. February 1 potato stocks in Oregon totaled 15.0 million cwt. Disappearance to date was 12.5 million cwt. In Washington, February 1 potato stocks totaled 44.5 million
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The tractor protest organisations arrived at St. Peter's yesterday and the Pope, at the end of the Angelus, addressed a thought to the protesters: 'I greet the farmers and breeders in the square. read more

The establishment of the Fund for Emergencies in Agriculture (EUR 300 million), the Ismea Innovation Fund (EUR 250 million) and the Food Sovereignty Fund (EUR 100 million), as well as the renegotiation of the NRP, with an additional EUR 2.85 billion for agricultural interventions
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In a significant development, Ecuador has seen the lifting of a Russian import ban on its bananas, a move that had initially stemmed from a contentious weapons transaction with the United States favoring Ukraine. Russian authorities had attributed the ban to pest detection, impacting not only
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Spanish fruit and vegetable imports continue to grow: in November 2023 they amounted to EUR 4,060 million, or 19% more than the previous year. The 4 billion barrier, already reached a few years ago by our country, has therefore been surpassed. read more

Already operational for two months, the new Board of Directors of Coop Sole took office on 14 December, when the shareholders' meeting expressed its will, with the confirmation of Antonio Maione (president) at the top and the election of Carmine Micillo (vice-president) and 7
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Dutch Organics specialist Eosta has announced a new development in the world of Natural Branding: Inverted Natural Branding. read more

South African table grape growers are expected to finish their harvest earlier than last year, when the last grapes were packed in week 14. read more

IFOAM Organics Europe expressed its welcome for this week’s EU vote on green claims, which highlighted the limitations of the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) methodology for some product categories including organic. read more

Accordingly, requirements that, for example, only prohibit plastic packaging or require it to be reused, or exclude fibre-based composite packaging from the recyclate use quotas, would very likely violate the principle of equal treatment because there are no objective criteria for determining the recyclate use quotas.
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Russia’s Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Control Service has lifted its ban on banana exports from five Ecuadorean companies. The announcement was made by Ecuador’s Foreign Ministry on Friday. read more