Organic fruit and vegetable sales may have experienced a general slowdown in the past year as a result of the so-called “cost of living crisis”, but Italy’s Almaverde Bio has shown that efforts to make organic produce stand out from the crowd can bring great rewards. read more

Former government food tzar Henry Dimbleby has welcomed Rishi Sunak’s new support package for UK growers, saying he is “trying to get the train back on track”. read more

Devastating floods in Italy’s Emila Romagna region that killed nine people, displaced thousands, and left thousands more without electricity over the past couple of days have cast a major shadow over the area’s fruit and vegetable production. read more

Frozen potato giant McCain Foods is partnering with Community Shop to open a new social supermarket store in Eastfield, North Yorkshire – the home of McCain GB since 1969. read more

The Hass Avocado Board (HAB) has created a webinar based on key takeaways from its recent participation at last month’s World Avocado Congress in New Zealand. read more

Dole saw growth in both revenue and adjusted EBITDA in the opening three months of 2023 (Q1), with executive chairman Carl McCann “pleased” with the “strong” start to the year. read more

British Berry Growers (BBG) has announced the formation of a new Research and Development (R&D) Board to advance sustainability and efficiency within the British berry industry. read more

A group of agricultural universities has today (18 May) produced a research strategy which sets out new steps the institutions are taking to join up their research and strengthen the difference they make on the ground.  read more

MPs have expressed deep concern about how isolation, poor public transport and a relative lack of digital connectivity have contributed to poor mental health outcomes for all categories of people across rural communities in England, but especially among farm workers and vets.   read more

EU agri-food exports and imports remained strong in January 2023 compared to January 2022 reaching a total of €31.8 billion. EU exports reached €18 billion, and EU imports €13.8 billion (up 10% from the previous year). This has resulted in another positive trade balance for the EU of
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Dole plc today released its financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2023. read more

There is one pea variety that is considered a true luxury for a select few, the lágrima de Costa pea from Gipuzkoa; read more

Longer days, rising temperatures, a desire to be outdoors more: welcome to the warm weather! If with the arrival of the first warm weather, we say goodbye to woollen jumpers and heavy jackets and finally make way for t-shirts and canvas shoes, even at the table habits
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In the pre-pandemic period in 2018-2019, the median time spent in port – based on data from United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) – was relatively stable around 16.5-17 hours. This then increased to 20 hours at its peak during the pandemic in the second half of 2021 and
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Earlier this week, harvest of Colombia’s new avocado crop started. “Volume of the Traviesa crop will pick up by next week and continue through August,” says Kraig Loomis with GreenFruit Avocados. “It is very exciting to see how much volume will be added this year in comparison to the
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Butler Market Gardens have been attending Hort Connections for many years and will be there again this year. The team will not have a stand this year but still intend to attend. read more

On the floods that have been hitting Emilia Romagna in the last few hours, we have collected the views of the trade associations; read more

According to Dr. Leonardo Ortega, Research Director of the National Mango Board, "the purpose of this forum is to provide growers, packers and industry members in general with information on specific topics that are selected by them,
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The Board of Directors of Orsero S.p.A. has approved the Consolidated Results as at 31 March 2023. read more

Potato plants resistant to blight are one of the game-changing breakthroughs in Europe for gene editing. The UK has already given the go-ahead for gene editing, and several other countries have adopted it or are considering the use of gene editing. They may soon be joined by the EU, with the
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