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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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A total of 31 Flemish exporters of fruit, vegetables, potatoes and fruit trees took part in this year's FRUIT LOGISTICA in Berlin, impressively showcasing the global orientation of the Flemish agricultural sector. The stand, now firmly established in Hall 27
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Pear Bureau Northwest CEO to step down
2024-02-29 06:00
Pear Bureau Northwest has announced its president and chief executive Kevin Moffitt will be stepping down after 35 years with the organisation.
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Pound experiences unprecedented stability in the UK
2024-02-29 00:00
The FX market is currently experiencing a period of remarkable calmness, with the Pound displaying an unexpected level of stability. According to Joseph Capurso, Head of International and Sustainable Economics at Commonwealth Bank, "Implied volatility is particularly low in GBP, at close to the
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A new 24-acre greenhouse facility is being completed in Delta, British Columbia for Windset Farms®, a vertically integrated producer and marketer of greenhouse-grown produce, selling and marketing over 2,500 acres of greenhouse vegetable production.
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Georgian company Nergeta started to grow kiwifruit near the country's Black Sea coast in 2011. Over two years Nergeta established a 20ha orchard and also built their own cold-store and packhouse. Its first trial export shipments were sold in a German retail chain but the company soon found its
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Fruit Attraction is ready to take off as the application period to participate in its sixteenth edition opens. Organised by Ifema Madrid and Fepex, this leading trade fair for the fruit and vegetable sector will take place from 8 to 10 October under the slogan "Discover the essence of the sector".
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