In order to prevent water shortages connected to global warming, Turkey’s General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works (DSİ) is installing prepaid electronic meters, updating the piped systems in various agricultural enterprises. read more

The drought situation, high temperatures and the decrease in the local production of vegetables have made it necessary to increase the import of fresh foodstuffs from Morocco to Malaga by ship, East Fruit reports referring to Surinenglish.com. read more

Helice RZ F1(click to learn more), after a testing period in the main Italian pepper-growing areas, gave optimal results, especially in the regions of Campania, Sicily, Piedmont and Veneto. The variety proved to be suitable for the
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Prices rose by an average of 10%, purchases fell by 8%. This, in short, is the snapshot of the first half of 2023 on fresh fruit and vegetables taken by the Cso Italy Market Observatory on the basis of data from the GfK Italia panel. From January to June 2023, the following were purchased
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Despite the restrictive turn of the central banks' monetary policies and the moderate wage dynamics, inflation in Italy remains high (+5.3% on September 2022according to preliminary ISTAT estimates, slightly down on a monthly basis) and there are signs of difficulties in the
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Very positive numbers for the recently concluded 15th edition of Fruit Attraction: an increase of 16% of professionals and 10% of both exhibitors and exhibition area. Logistics area increased by 31%. read more

Tianyun International Holdings Limited, together with its subsidiaries, an important seller and manufacturer of processed fruit products in the People's Republic of China, has announced that the Group entered a strategic co-operation agreement with Tuah Tacunan Sdn Bhd, a tropical fruit producer
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When fall arrives, the mushroom season usually gets going. "But we can't complain about the past few weeks. Sales went quite well, and the supply and demand of white and chestnut mushrooms were well-matched. It went as it should," says Arno van den Oord of the Dutch mushroom and bean sprout
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This is the first time that Syngenta has held a pepper conference at such an early date in the El Ejido area. And it has done so to show the potential of its two new products from the beginning of the crop. They are called Norris and Arconte and they are two early cycle red California peppers. read more

World Food Day was commemorated with a new sense of urgency in South Africa, spurred by research commissioned by the Shoprite retail group that suggests that 49% of South Africans will go hungry at night in two years' time. read more

According to initial forecasts, about 330 million strawberry plants will be planted throughout October, an average of about 9 million seedlings per day. These will be the plants yielding the fruit that will be supplied in the coming months in the European market. read more

A perfect storm has been gathering over UK road transport prices for the past few months. The returning HGV levy, clean air charges, rising fuel prices and higher business costs have all contributed. read more

"Consumer demand for mushrooms is slowly reaching normal levels again. The post-pandemic market has been somewhat disappointing. Organic mushrooms fared slightly worse, but there, too, demand is picking up," Warmolt Boer, member of LTO Netherlands' Mushroom group, begins, reflecting on the
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Green bell peppers are seeing a perfect storm in supply, and that's creating strong markets. read more

In recent weeks, during a survey in an Alì shop, a blackboard placed at the entrance caught our attention: 'From today you can find us on Tik Tok with the profile @ali.supermercati' it said. The call to action was very veiled, not to say absent, but
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A banana, a watermelon, a chilli and a prawn taking the shape of the iconic web smile. Food products, fruit and vegetables in primis, are the protagonists of the new communication campaign created by Amazon Fresh for the UK. read more

Farms are breathing, and from the Agea come simplifications of the procedures needed to speed up payments. From 16 October, the new system of advances in agriculture was activated, with the possibility of disbursing 2.4 billion until 30 November, which will involve 722 thousand
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This season of honey pomelo started in early August, and exports to the European market are expected to end before the end of October. Exports to other markets are expected to continue until the end of January. This season's pomelos are larger in size, and there are fewer medium- and small-sized
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As Peru’s blueberry industry, with its significantly lower blueberry volumes due to the weather effects, will not recover lost production sufficiently, the higher prices will likely remain for the rest of the season. “A trend is also emerging of producers with newer proprietary varieties who
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"With just over 15 days to go until the start of the Anti-Inflation Quarterly, we can be satisfied for several reasons, which indicate that we are on the right track in the fight against high living costs,
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