With more than 300 references, mainly in bulk, fruit and vegetables are at the centre of the offer of the new urban Freshaperto format in Milan of Banco Fresco, the chain specialising in fresh and ultra-fresh food that is continuing its expansion project in northern Italy, in
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In the last decade, Morocco and Turkey have increased their tomato exports by 61.74% and 7.69%. Meanwhile, Spanish and Dutch tomato exports have fallen by 40.55% and by 17.29%, respectively. In the Americas, Mexico, the country that exports the most tomatoes worldwide, (though it almost
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Fourth-range players reorganise in the face of some difficulties in this market: the processing phase of Cultiva Op's products will be taken over by Sab at its facilities in Telgate (Bg). The high cost of energy has an impact read more

Gunnar Seitz will be the new sales manager at Fyffes International, one of Europe's largest importers of tropical fruits, the company said. He will start his work at Fyffes on 15 August 2023. read more

inaho Europe B.V. introduces the latest version of their autonomous tomato harvesting robot, eight times faster than the previous ver. read more

As new season fruit begins arriving in-market, New Zealand apple brand, Rockit Global has championed the first memorandum of understanding (MOU) in its category, signing a 12-month deal with Lulu Hypermarkets across the Middle East. read more

Customs officers in Saudi Arabia’s city of Al Hadithah have seized a large consignment of Captagon pills, also known as ‘jihadi drugs’. Saudi zakat, tax and customs officials reported that more than 450,000 Captagon tablets were being brought into the country via vegetable trucks. read more

The Conad Adriatico Annual General Meeting was held a few days ago to present the positive results of the last year to its members. In fact, the Cooperative closed 2022 with a turnover of 2,001 million euro, an increase of 8.19% compared to 2021, and a
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At a temporary storage warehouse in the Pskov region, a state inspector of the North-Western Interregional Directorate of Rosselkhoznadzor, during quarantine phytosanitary control, found berries with signs of infection with strawberry anthracnose. The 11.5 tons of strawberries were transported
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Fleuron d'Anjou has celebrated the end of its asparagus campaign. After a rather “timid” start due to cold weather in April, the 2023 season has turned out to be very positive. “There are still some green products left, but we finished the white asparagus last week. We have achieved our
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At almost 1,700m above sea level, Nooyenskopje in Magoebaskloof, Limpopo, has had an exceptional kiwi crop, running across all colours. read more

Grahame Osler, a manager at the asparagus company Denbi, which supplies large retailers, explains that they imported less asparagus from source markets outside of Africa this year compared to previous years. "We were hoping that a new asparagus project in Namibia would kick in sooner, but it did
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According to EastFruit analysts, after a bad year for sweet cherries in 2022, Uzbek farmers again note problems with the harvest of this most important stonefruit for the country. read more

In March this year the Australian and Indian governments issued a joint statement welcoming the finalisation of market access for Hass avocados. read more

Last Friday, as part of the Protagonists of Italian Fruit and Vegetables event at Villa Necchi in Milan, the Danila Bragantini Prize was awarded, the Oscar for innovation in fruit and vegetables promoted for the fifth consecutive year by the National Association of Women in Fruit and Vegetables and
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On Thursday, dozens of farmers traveled to Merida where they symbolically dumped 500 kilos of cherries at the gates of the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development, Population, and Territory to protest the losses caused by the storms registered at the beginning of the harvest and claim direct
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"There is a very high demand for carrots, although we do not yet have German goods available. Currently, we receive carrots from Italy," informs Lance Sidio, who has been working at the fair-certified and public welfare-balanced Naturkost Elkerhausen GmbH since 2005. read more

Fruit Attraction, which will be holding its 15th edition from the 3rd to the 5th of October, is organising a new edition of the Innovation Hub Awards. These awards for innovation and entrepreneurship in the fruit and vegetable sector are aimed at those exhibiting and co-exhibiting companies that
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The Minister of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia, Otar Shamugia, has visited local blueberry farmers in the village of Narazeni of Zugdidi. He inspected the blueberry harvesting process and commended the state program for blueberry gardening, stating: “In Samegrelo,
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6,952 containers or 149,468 t of Hass avocados were exported from the Andean country by week 21. This is an increase of 15 % compared to the same period last year, reports agraria.pe with reference to ProHass President Juan Carlos Paredes Rosales. read more