Officials of the Panama Canal Authority warned yesterday that water-conserving measures will be in place for at least the next 10 months. Faced with an unprecedented drought this year, combined with the onset of the El Niño weather phenomenon, administrators at the Panama Canal have cut the
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Because of climate change, extreme weather events are likely to escalate in the future, with a high frequency of spring frost events as well. These are increasingly dangerous, because they occur after fall and spring months characterized by temperatures above the seasonal average which reawaken
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A cold air mass from the Atlantic is bringing changes to the weather and putting an end to the latest heat wave, and to temperatures that have inevitably resulted in significant stress for fruit crops, including the later peach varieties from the Spanish region of Aragon. read more

Fruit and vegetables have always been used by all the media as a symbol of price increases and speculation, while only for some time now has climate change repeatedly decimated their supply, pushing up prices and, on the other hand, quality
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In order to respond to the extraordinary demand for food products that will take place during these few days, the more than 300 FMCG logistics platforms of the companies of ASEDAS, the Spanish Association of Distributors, Self-Service Stores and Supermarkets, will be
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“Broccoli sprouts have been showing an increase as there has been a lot of publicity around the benefits of the sulforaphane enzyme it contains. People literally started buying it up in supermarkets, adding it to smoothies and dishes. Now we’re seeing a big trend for healthy foods that are
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Lack of products due to bad weather in the countries of the region has resulted in higher prices this year for Albanian agricultural products, but exporters are facing high losses from the exchange rate. read more

Brand, sustainability and an increase in the importance of organic products represent the strategic triad on which the Coop Sole di Parete(Caserta) company has based its entire production and sales policy over the last five years. If these growth factors have already been rewarding
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The old low-rise wooden sheds that started the history of intensive horticultural greenhouse cultivation in the southern coastal area of Sicily, the so-called fascia trasformata (transformed landscape), are now only a distant memory. Today, the Simonelli company, founded nearly 50 years ago,
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Port of Melbourne reported total container throughput, full and empty, in July 2023 were down against July 2022. read more

Companies participating in Fruit Attraction 2023 interested in participating may do so until 4 September, as long as they are products, technological solutions or services for the fruit and vegetable industry whose commercialisation will begin after 1 September.
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Many people have experienced an itching sensation in their mouth when eating pineapple; in fact, many wonder if they could be suffering from an allergy. The answer, in the vast majority of cases, is no. read more

The establishment of a National Potato Innovation Centre (NPIC) at The James Hutton Institute in Scotland was announced earlier this year. The NPIC will involve the whole industry working together to deliver new improvements to potato production. read more

The Algarve is responsible for 90% of Portugal’s orange production; orange trees need a lot of water (much more than avocados, for example) and with the drought, this has almost been impossible. Whatever trees have produced this year is generally smaller, less in number – and certainly
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Seasonal changes have led to a shift in the commodities of interest for this report. Blueberries have replaced asparagus as the supplies from the various growing areas shipping blueberries peak, while supplies of asparagus are traditionally light in late summer. This list will be revisited
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While the peach and nectarine campaigns are heading towards their end in the Spanish region of Extremadura, the plum season is now underway with fewer kilos than initially expected, said Antonio Pereira, of Sol Badajoz. "We thought the volumes were going to be lower only for the May and June
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In the southern Italian region of Apulia, the harvest of the early pomegranates Shany and Emek will take place in the first week of September. Davide De Lisi, cultivation manager of Masseria Fruttirossi, an Italian pomegranate grower with over 300 hectares of its own crops, shares with us
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Sapodilla, also known as La-Moot in Thailand, wood potato, chiku, acha, or sapote, is an exotic fruit that tastes like a combination of ice cream, caramel, fudge, and condensed milk. In Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, this fruit is considered exotic and primarily grown by small
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Recently, organic adjika produced by the Ukrainian craft company “Stodola” appeared on the shelves of American retail for the first time. The founder of the “Stodola” brand, Yan Ostrovsky, shared in an interview with SEEDS the information about the challenging journey
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Things are getting tougher for South African table grape growers in their choice of new varieties. read more