California onion supplies look to be on the shorter side right now. “I think a lot of the overwinter varieties available at this time of year, you either couldn’t get them planted or they were damaged. There just doesn’t seem to be as much supply as there has been in years past,” says
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Life on Earth depends on photosynthetic organisms, which use sunlight to fix carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into plant biomass, releasing oxygen. read more

Container terminals across India's Gujarat coast have resumed operations at full scale after Cyclone Biparjoy forced a total shipping halt over the past week. read more

Alessandro d'Este returns to the presidency of GS1 Italy, the association of consumer goods companies, of which d'Este was appointed president back in 2019, when he took over the baton fromAlberto Frausin.GS1 Italy brings together 40,000 consumer goods companies that share systems,
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Before putting the label 'Vicentín' or '18 Quilates' on a piel de sapo melon, Peris values numerous aspects that point directly to the quality of each piece. So many, in fact, that less than 20% of his entire demanding melon crop achieves these distinctions. read more

Favorable spring weather during California’s prune bloom period could bode well for the state’s crop. The California Prune Board is optimistic that the season will size up well for growers who are paid a premium on fruit size, and on tonnage. The industry expects 75,000 short tons of fruit
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This series gives the average wholesale prices of bananas by country of origin. The prices are national averages of the most usual prices charged for bananas at wholesale markets in Birmingham and London. This publication is updated weekly. read more

Horteck is a company that has been dedicated to the production and marketing of fertilisers and fertilisers for agriculture for more than 25 years. read more

Stora Enso opened a new corrugated packaging production factory at De Lier, the Netherlands. The site is part of the recently acquired De Jong Packaging Group, now Business Unit Western Europe, in the Packaging Solutions division. The major expansion has been designed with a strong focus on
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Supplies of California strawberries are coming on strong from the Watsonville/Salinas region. “We’re ramping up to peak production, which is forecasted to arrive in early-to-mid July,” says Nick Chappell, Director of Sales for California Giant Berry Farms. “Our overall supplies of
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Following intervention from the US authorities the US West Coast Port union strike was dissipated somewhat. This is despite a cargo hold-up worth US$5.2 billion. read more

Nearly two decades ago, the Sevillian company culminated with a real and differentiating alternative in the stone fruit segment through the incorporation of its Pluot® and Metis® interspecifics, plums hybridised with apricot, which resulted in a real and

real alternative for the stone fruit segment.
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The destruction of the Kakhovska Dam in Ukraine will have a major impact on the Ukranian fruit and vegetable cultivation, says Volodymyr Gurzhiy of Ukrainian apple exporter USPA: “Big volumes of fruits and vegetables, approximately 30 per cent of the entire production, are grown in the south
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Puglia's green florid fig campaign kicks off. Italian apricot production gets underway. There is a high trend for melons, especially row melons, while demand for watermelons is slow to start. Production of Italian cherries is very low. Trentino mountain strawberries
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The 20th anniversary of the "Echt kuh-l!" school competition organised by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) was all about school break catering. Under the motto "Food makes school! Organic, diverse and healthy", children and young people were able to learn about the interrelationships between
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Supplies of peaches out of South Carolina are extremely limited thanks to a freeze the region saw in March. “Not all growers are picking and packing and those who are, are not doing it every day,” says Michael Blume of Keystone Fruit Marketing Inc. read more

Summer temperatures have finally arrived and the demand for thirst-quenching products has also gone into fourth gear. At the Rimini Food Centre, for example, sales - and demand - for watermelons and melons, summer fruits par excellence, exploded. read more

It seems that the Russian Federation expects that an agreement for establishing a free trade zone between Iran and the Eurasian Economic Union will be signed before the end of the year. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Overchuk said recently: "Now, indeed, the EEU has come very close to
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Fruit trading companies in Germany are also abused as "unwanted servants" in drug smuggling from South America to Europe. This was the conclusion drawn by investigators from the Federal Criminal Police Office and the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office at the annual conference of the German Fruit Trade Association
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As Brussels seeks strengthened economic ties with Africa, in the face of competition from China, Kenya, and the European Union have signed a trade deal to that effect. Kenyan President William Ruto presided over a ceremony in Nairobi on Monday to mark the formal conclusion of negotiations for
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