The Panama Canal is facing a surge in the number of ships waiting to transit, up by 13% in just 24 hours, as the waterway grapples with drastic transit cuts due to drought conditions. The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has implemented daily transit volume reductions and draft restrictions due to
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The country's largest cooperative - with 2.3 million members and more than 340 sales outlets distributed in 8 of Italy's 20 regions - in line with the 2023/2027 Strategic Plan, in fact, in 2023 alone transferred more than €300 million of
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It's already time for strawberries in Basilicata. The abnormally mild fall weather has accelerated plant growth and the ripening of the fruits, hastening harvesting operations by two weeks. read more

Hi-Las Marketing Corp., a player in the agribusiness, has unveiled its strategic initiative to bolster market penetration by charting a course towards exporting fresh fruits to key European markets, notably Belgium. While historically centered on the Asian market, the company is now
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The Valencian Farmers' Association (AVA-ASAJA) reiterates to all political representatives of the European Union (EU) with competences in agriculture, phytosanitary safety and international trade to ask the Commission to veto the entry of citrus fruits coming from
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MD also flags over Spoletodo, where the sign's first point of sale, the third in the Umbria region, was inaugurated in the presence of the Councillor for Tourism, Marketing and Economic Development Giovanni Angelini Paroli; read more

“The pear season started calmly,” begins Randy Dijksman, account manager at Combilo – a Dutch fruit and vegetable importer/exporter. That is how he summed up the top fruit market in late September. Randy attributes most of that to speculation fueled by the previous, unusual season-ending. read more

Seneca Foods Corporation today announced financial results for the second quarter and six months ended September 30, 2023. read more

The Turkish apple export seems to have slowed down slightly compared to when the season started, says Okan Imancer, co-founder and export manager for Turkish apple exporter The Fresh Apple: “After a promising start with Gala apples, the current movement for Turkish apples is quite slow for Red
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Krisztina Bodnár, a business development manager at GfK, has recently published an article about their latest study on the nutritional habits of Hungarians on the portal TradeMagazin.hu. read more

The red-skinned bananas grown in the Canary Islands have become quite popular on social networks. Despite not being as well known as other banana varieties, this red-skin variety has been with us longer than we imagined. read more

In the splendid setting of the Villa Giulia hamlet near Pachino, an interesting workshop was held last Thursday to examine three cases in which aggregation and communication have made it possible to significantly advance certain national fruit and vegetable supply chains. read more

Schwan Regiofruit stores a wide range of regional products and goods from all over the world in 1,500 square metres of refrigerated space and a further 3,000 square metres of dry space. Despite a number of challenges, including weather-related ones, the company has not experienced any
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After successfully exporting fresh citrus to China, Zimbabwean blueberry producers are now eyeing the expansive Chinese market for their berries. read more

Appreciate fruit to such an extent that it is freed from unnecessary labelling and valued in a natural way. This is the mission of the start-up Mister Natura, which proposes laser marking of fruit and also a 'sponsored' fruit project. read more

Taking a look at the meteorological aspect, we see during the first two weeks of October a continuation of unseasonable temperatures in the wake of the previous month, with sunny days that are far too warm for the period. This first phase will give way to a change
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The cassava harvest season started in Ecuador with strong demand from the US market driven by Cubans, says David Velez, sales manager of Ecuadorian exporter Roses & Fresh Fruits by Ayelen Living Memories. “The demand is regular but there is a market like the United States that has more
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During the recent visit of the Iranian President to Tajikistan, memorandums of understanding were signed in the field of transport, free economic zones, cooperation in the fight against drugs, and even an agreement on a visa-free regime between Tajikistan and Iran. This, according to experts,
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After the first few months of the vegetable season under shelter in the province of Almeria, ASAJA Almeria has made its first assessment of the state of the crop. "As ASAJA Almeria has already anticipated with the forecast for the season, the stabilisation of the pepper area has been consolidated,
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A promotional committee has been set up to have a Neapolitan fruit and vegetable excellence recognised as PGI: the asparagus. Cultivation, over the last 50 years, has become of great strategic and commercial importance for the area, hence the request to
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