Total revenue increased 1%, or $18.9m, to $1.989bn compared to the first quarter of 2022. According to the company, this was mainly due to a strong performance in the Fresh Fruit and Diversified EMEA segments. Sales in Fresh Fruit increased by 6.5% or
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The season for cherries in the Northern Hemisphere is off to a positive start, depending on the country, whilst in other markets it has just come to a close. In the Netherlands, the cherry season kicked off with high-quality Spanish cherries, while the supply and demand remain balanced. The
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These days, the red, juicy fruits from Lower Saxony are increasingly on sale. Most of the produce currently still comes from protected cultivation. According to information from the Lower Saxony Chamber of Agriculture (LWK), excellent qualities from greenhouses and
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Morocco's agricultural export season is nearing its end, closing in July with the watermelon and grape calendars, and the last volumes of vegetables nearly sold out. It has been a memorably complicated season, but for Mustapha Mohattan, commercial director of the exporter Fructimoor, "the
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The debate on pesticides published in our newspaper in recent days (click here to read more) has stimulated various comments from experts in the field. Yesterday we reported on Professor Stefano Maini's intervention (click here ), today we leave room for Professor
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In the Netherlands, the late spring affected BerryBrothers' soft fruit production. "Last year, we started harvesting greenhouse redcurrants as early as the beginning of May. Now, we won't start until early next week, so two weeks later," begins Nijs van Zuilen. "The farm workers were especially
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This summer, there will be a lack of apricots, cherry plums, and early sweet cherries. The harvest of plums, cherries, and late sweet cherries is also uncertain as it depends on the weather in the second half of May. read more

"On April 21, our first batch of lychees arrived in the Netherlands by air. Up to now, we have exported 4 batches of lychees to Europe this year. Since early May, lychees exported to Australia, the United States, Canada, Panama and other places have been shipped one after another," said Mr. Lin
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Soon, you’ll be able to get a box of freshly picked, sweet strawberries from the grocery store or local farm stand. But it’s disappointing when you get them home and find that the ones at the bottom have started to rot. To increase the berries’ shelf life, researchers
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As California stone fruit season begins, growers and shippers know the pressure will be on the state’s supplies of fruit. “Demand is pretty strong, especially with everything being late. Retailers are trying to fill their shelves with product,” says Mauricio Jimenez-Castro,
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The Italian roasted melon, with its characteristic round-oval shape, has always been among the most sought-after by consumers: BASF Vegetable Seeds presents Magverik F1, the Nunhems-branded cantaloupe with medium size and long shelf life in post-harvest. A variety that responds in a way
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There are still vegetables that are planted and harvested by hand and grown on small plots of rarely more than a hectare. An example is the Margherita White Onion with Protected Geographical Indication, grown in the southern Italian region of Apulia. The onion is protected by a consortium and
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Flooded crops are experiencing what is known as root asphyxia, the phenomenon whereby water from rain or irrigation stops at the surface of the soil, almost completely occupying the empty spaces in the soil
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Montosa (Málaga), a company specialising in avocado and convenience products, will participate in the "World of Private Label" PLMA 2023 trade fair, which will take place in Amsterdam on 23-24 May, according to the company. There, it will present the new design of its Native® brand, which features
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The intense plan of promotional-communication and marketing activities that Wonderful® has activated as 'Official Pistachio of the Giro d'Italia 2023' has been in full swing for days now. read more

Emilia-Romagna is slowly trying to recover from the long trail of damage caused by the floods. We would like to show our closeness to all those families who have suffered losses, to the evacuees, to the workers engaged in saving lives and to all those volunteers who represent the
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When possible, Danes prefer local, sustainably produced food. Add Copenhagen's luxury restaurants to that, and you have the ideal breeding ground for a company like Funga Farm: a small-scale urban farm that grows organic, fresh, high-quality specialty mushrooms and supplies them exclusively to
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The availability of Spanish watermelons is now at full capacity. Plenty of produce is available for export from the early growing regions. With increasing presence in the trade, demand for the summer fruit is picking up. read more

Eskom hopes to meet the massive generation capacity shortfall expected for electricity demand this winter. Executive Bheki Nxumalo stated that despite all their efforts to ensure additional generation is supplied to the grid, the country would be entering this winter 3,000 megawatts less than
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Catalonia continues to be severely affected by drought. One of the consequences of the water shortage was the closure at the end of April of the Urgell Canal (Lleida), which only supplies water for the population and emergency irrigation for fruit trees. A cultivated area is affected
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