Kenya's agricultural produce quality assurance agency has opened talks with five countries, including the US and South Korea, over markets for Kenyan avocados to absorb an expected glut in coming months. The Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service aims to ensure the fruits planted under the
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Demand for grapes is high this year. "In fact, all year long. There was tremendous demand for Indian grapes, though those prices could've been a bit higher. The Egyptian season is also going unprecedentedly well. All the containers coming in are often already divided up," says Luciën de Wit of
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The timing of the date season in India is a large advantage in the global market, Kaushal Khakhar, CEO of Indian fresh produce exporter Kay Bee Exports, states: “In India, the date season starts from mid-June and lasts until the end of July. During this particular timeframe, the other
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What can we expect this summer 2023? IFN goes in search of weather trends in order to understand what kind of climate we will have to live with in the coming months, a climate that will inevitably influence harvests, fruit and vegetable production and consumption in our
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How is it that in one of the richest countries in the world more and more people do not have enough money for adequate nutrition? What is "adequate" and how is food poverty defined? What are the health and social consequences of food poverty?
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According to Fresh Fruit, Peru has exported 49,592 tons of citrus so far this year, recording a 19% year-on-year decrease in exports. Two weeks ago, the country exported its biggest volume but last week but exported 7,258 tons, i.e. 3% less than in the same week of 2022. read more

On June 1, 2023, Primever Holland opened in Poeldijk, the Netherlands. It has cross-docking facilities for fruit and vegetable transport to France and its distribution from there to the Netherlands. "Proud. That one word summarizes it," says Henk van Berkel. read more

Ukrainian growers have started their sour cherry season last week. However, first large shipments of Ukrainian sour cherries appeared in the market only this week, as reported by EastFruit. The current sour cherry season kicked off in Ukraine several weeks later than last year, but with higher
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While it was already possible for consumers to find Delicatesse potatoes around Easter thanks to the greenhouse crops, HDC Lamotte began harvesting its field Delicatesse potatoes at the end of May. “We had a late start because of the drought and the lack of high temperatures, but we are still
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Exactly 50 years ago, a new way of ethylene ripening was introduced through a system that continuously releases small amounts of ethylene during a 24-hour application period. “Our Easy-Ripe and Ethy-Gen II Concentrate are a safer and more effective way to apply ethylene compared to systems
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Retailer Waitrose has been plagued with availability issues since an IT problem affected stock replenishment. Now, a couple of Waitrose customers have taken to social media to express their disappointment at empty shelves within some stores. The retailer has claimed the issue has been fixed, but
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Recognition of the conditions of force majeure and exceptional circumstances that have affected the territories of Emilia-Romagna affected by floods and landslides since 1 May. Hence, a series of derogations to the deadlines for the presentation of Pac applications, to respect
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The executive director of the Institute for the Protection of Consumer Rights (Proconsumidor), Eddy Alcántara, has been speaking about the reasons for the shortages of some products in the Dominican Republic, depending on the year’s season, as is the case with bananas. He stated: “Every
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Irish potato farmers are warning that supermarket shelves will go bare if they don't increase the prices. Of course, as inflation continues to take hold across the country, many are happy to see that the potato and other Irish-grown vegetables have escaped the rising costs. This is despite the
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On 15 June 2023, the Shareholders' Meeting of ESD ITALIA was held for the approval of the 2022 budget and the renewal of the Board of Directors. The Members of ESD Italia, founded in 2001, have already confirmed their commitment to cooperate by renewing their mandates until the end of 2022.
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The Spanish federation of wooden packaging and its components, FEDEMCO, and the Andalusian strawberry interprofessional association, Interfresa, have signed a new collaboration agreement. The agreement stems from the need to work together to comply with new regulations.
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Rovigo is the Italian champion, sponsored by citrus producer Agricola Lusia, for the 14th time: the ‘Bersaglieri’ beat Petrarca Padova 16-9 in the final of the ‘Top 10’ which took place in Parma, putting their signature on the 92nd edition of the men’s 15s rugby tournament. "It is a
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Predicting agricultural yields is one of the big problems for farms, especially with the unstable climate it becomes problematic to develop programmes. But the solution may come from precision agriculture using state-of-the-art tools such as satellites and
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EastFruit analysts are closely monitoring the situation in Serbia, where heavy rains have led to floods. A natural disaster is observed in a large number of regions of the country, including the region of compact cultivation and processing of raspberries. It could have a very serious impact on
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Summer is finally starting and consumption of typical summer fruit should explode... so at least it has been the case for melons and watermelons which, thanks to the first warm weather, have had a sprint in sales (for more on this click here). Unfortunately for peaches and nectarines the situation is
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