Kashmiri apples are witnessing a huge demand spike, with rates going up by 50 percent compared to last year. However, growers claimed that the production this year has reduced by 40 percent due to problematic weather. President of the Parimpora Fruit Mandi, Bashir Ahmad Bashir, said that Grade A
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Packaging manufacturer Smurfit Kappa UK says it has solved a poorly fitting punnet problem for producer Isle of Wight Tomatoes with its new lattice box. read more

Veg Power, the not-for-profit alliance to increase the UK’s vegetable consumption, today (30 October) announced that Greenyard Frozen UK has become its latest partner organisation to support its Simply Veg campaign. read more

The finalists have been unveiled in the search for the nation’s best farm retailers.  read more

Demand for Turkish oranges is unusually high this season, according to Esra Söyleyen, managing partner at Turkish exporter Aksun, including from Spain, Europe’s largest producer. “There is a shortage,” she says. “Everybody’s asking for oranges this year.” read more

The World Citrus Organisation will host an online event for the global citrus community to present the estimates for the 2023/24 Northern Hemisphere production season on Wednesday, 15 November at 16:00-18:30 CET (UTC+1). read more

As reported by World Cargo News, the Suez Canal Authority has announced that the planned increase will apply to crude oil tankers, petroleum products carriers, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carriers, liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers, chemical carriers, and other liquid materials carriers, as
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Mission Produce has announced expansion plans for its forward distribution centre (FDC) in Dartford, England, to double ripening capacity and establish mango operations ”in response to the branch’s growing success”. read more

Ahold Delhaize has announced that it has agreed to acquire 100 per cent of Romanian grocery retailer Profi Rom Food SRL (Profi) from MidEuropa, subject to approval from the regulatory authorities. read more

“In total, 103,868 professionals from 145 countries — 8 more than last year — attended the event, 16% more than last year’s edition,” Ifema Madrid and Fepex said. Exhibitor numbers were also up 10%, with 2,000 companies from 56 countries covering an area of 64,000m2 spread over nine halls. read more

With the renovation of theipermarkets in Ciriè in the province of Turin, San Martino in Strada in the province of Lodi and Montano Lucino in the province of Como, Bennet is committed to satisfying an increasingly demanding clientele that is attentive not only to the quality and convenience of the products it
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Latvia: Coalition considering 12% VAT rate on fruit and veg read more

After Apifood, Vergers Cancel, Boyer and Le Vieux Pointet from France entering the Lovita® project, as well as Fruites Font from Spain in 2021, it is now Portugal's turn to join the club with stone fruit specialist producer-distributor Timóteo. This partnership was announced on October 5th at
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Star of the autumn season, French table grapes, whose production is mainly concentrated in southeastern France (the Vaucluse department accounts for 65% of the national production), ended up with volumes “slightly lower than initially forecast, due to the hot summer,” explains Alexandra
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In Austria, potatoes were planted on about 20,400 hectares this year. This means a loss of 15 percent of the cultivated area over the last three years. In terms of yield, there was also a loss of 10 to 15 per cent. This makes imports necessary. The starch content is satisfactory, at 20 per cent.
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Despite the encouraging signs of openness shown by the Agriculture Commission in July, the Environment Commission of the European Parliament not only approved the proposal for a regulation on the reduction of packaging waste, effectively banning the use of single-use packaging for
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More than 2,500 private individuals and farmers already deliver their nuts to the Nussland cracker in Dollbach, Lower Austria, year after year. "This year the frequency will certainly be lower," Nussland boss Julia Taubinger says regretfully about the meagre harvest in an interview with NÖN.
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Organic citrus in California might see a slightly later start to its season. For Creekside Organics, which partnered with Capay Organic in January 2021, it’s in the midst of converting more than 100 acres of land from conventional land to organic land in Porterville, California along with the
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An 86.6 million euro investment plan involving 7 Italian plants of the Group plus the headquarters, with the possibility of intercepting funds from the PNRR and other state allocations, as well as a significant use of own resources. A plan built on a number of strategic assets:
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Salvo Laudani, marketing manager of Oranfrizer Unifrutti Europe will speak today at 6pm at Palazzo delle Stelline, Corso Magenta 61 Milan, during the conference dedicated to generativity. read more