The southern resort island of Jeju is set to export its famous winter specialty, "Gyul" tangerines, to New Zealand for the first time. read more

Ahold Delhaize announces leadership transitions at Delhaize Serbia read more

With the harvest of the red-skinned and red-fleshed Rouge variety, the Kissabel® marketing season in Europe is now in full swing. In October in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, the harvest of the revolutionary range of apples with coloured flesh was completed in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany and Switzerland. read more

Quality, seasonality and promotability. It is on these three drivers that Bennet (VéGé) develops its offer in fruit and vegetables, a department to which it dedicates ample space along the purchasing path. Strategically, the area is usually located in the fresh area, in a central position for the
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There is a lower availability of walnuts from Portugal. Tiago Mendes Pinto, commercial director of Portuguese walnut exporter Nogam, states that’s it’s not quite the season they had expected: “For the walnut season, we’re having a bad year in terms of the production. Volumes were
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In the past two weeks, South Africa’s Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD) published two Government Gazettes outlining the procedure for exports from the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) and Mozambique to the EU and the UK, respectively, to take advantage
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Italy is pushing phytosanitary agreements for fruit exports, especially to the Far East. A seminar was held in Tokyo, at the Italian Embassy, aimed at boosting the opening of the Japanese market to Italian kiwi fruit. Fruitimprese, Salvi-Unacoa took part,
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Peru has enacted a new law focused on promoting the industrialization of potatoes to create an environment conducive to investment and stimulate agro-industrial developments. As the leading potato producer in Latin America, with a production volume of 6 million metric tons in 2022, Peru aims to
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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

Giving value to wooden fruit and vegetable packaging. The RiPack consortium, officially launched on 27 October in Campania, Italy, brings together a number of packaging manufacturers located throughout the country. It is thanks to their capillary spread if
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The ongoing drought and much slower shipping transit times through the Panama Canal, as the country faces the driest rainy season and October in 73 years, is being closely watched with 82% of the over 354.6 million boxes of bananas exported yearly from Ecuador passing through this interoceanic
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The resistance and identity of Palestine - and of all those who support its cause - are symbolised by the watermelon. read more

While it is clear that privatisation is the only solution to the challenges in the Cape Town port, Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing has welcomed steps taken by the Western Cape Government to mitigate risks for the current fruit harvesting season. read more

The final act of the Pink Lady's 'Adopt a Tree' project, which gives consumers the opportunity to follow the life cycle of apples, right up to the harvesting of the fruit, through the adoption of a Pink Lady apple tree in a dozen or so
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The Selex Group, a major player in the large-scale retail sector, and Savi, a marketing technology company active in the management of services related to the use of discount vouchers, are celebrating the third anniversary of their partnership, which has enabled them to make available over
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Iván Marambio, the president of Frutas de Chile (former Asoex), said that the fruit sector is evaluating the situation in the fields after the spring rains that are affecting various areas of the country. "As far as our sector is concerned, it's never good to have rains in harvest times -as is
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People usually peel mandarins and eat their sections. In the last few hours, however, almost everyone on X is hallucinating with a video that has gone viral and that shows a trick to eat it in a simpler way. read more

Ventura County, located in the southern part of California, is arguably the most beautiful place on earth to grow lemons. While the county is known for gorgeous beaches and beautiful mountain ranges, it is also a key agricultural area with the production value of lemons amounting to $253.7
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In the Sele Plain, the critical phases of the strawberry growing cycle begin at this time; soil fatigue and adverse environmental conditions create a challenge of maintaining the soil-plant balance. For Biolchim, this balance is essential for
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It is the apple that inaugurated the extra sweet segment and today can count on sustained growth worldwide thanks to its customised strengths. We are talking about envy™, and telling us about it were the representatives of the two consortia that produce it in Italy, Vog and Vip. In
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