Medjool date brand Natural Delights® returns to CPMA this year with award-winning products and a successful Canadian marketing program in tow. read more

A leading Australian sustainable packaging solutions company, Propak Industries, has made an improvement to its Macro Wrap product to be able to tightly secure a pallet of fresh produce with as little as 82 grams of plastic. read more

Dr Justy Range loves the elegance of South Africa’s municipal markets, often called unique for the way it calls into existence a sphere of trading seemingly governed by an ‘invisible hand’. read more

The Nordheim-based planning office p2raumdesign has now developed a front panel especially for the fresh produce sales counters used by numerous direct marketers throughout Germany, which can be lowered into the counter body as required. From a counter in full service with sales personnel in
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On 24 March 2023, the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) ordered the suspension of several emergency authorisations for the plant protection products WAKIL XL, MAXIM XL and Apron XL, which contain the active substance metalaxyl-M, with immediate effect. Affected by the
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Will the first Moldovan strawberries ripen by the Easter holidays? There were doubts about this due to two cold waves in late March – early April. However, according to the Pomușoarele Moldovei Association of Berry Producers, some producers of early greenhouse strawberries have decided to
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A varied and balanced diet is the basis for a long and healthy life: the body's well-being is also built at the table by paying attention to the choice of food. Every season has its fruits and colours and, as Melanie Marcus - Culinary
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The popular Hass avocado variety is in season from May to January, and outside of these months Shepard avocados are on the shelves from mid-February to mid-April. But many consumers say the Shepard is not up to snuff for the iconic smashed avo breakfast. Avocados Australia chief executive John
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We predicted it (click here to read more) and the bad weather arrived as early as yesterday afternoon. Too bad that the long-awaited thunderstorms to replenish the ailing reservoirs soon turned into hail; read more

The president of the Provincial Council of Jaén, Francisco Reyes, and the mayor of Bedmar and Garcíez, Pablo Ruiz, visited the Colmena Verde company, which is dedicated to the marketing of fruit and organic products, including white asparagus grown in this municipality. read more

About five years ago, Davie Brooks and Jon Nickerson with Greengo Seed started working on the development of iceberg lettuce that could be harvested mechanically, suitable for both processing as well as fresh markets. Their second goal was to breed for iceberg lettuce with a high Fusarium tolerance. read more

SeaPort Manatee, which marked its 50th anniversary in 2020, has been quietly setting one record after another for cargo handled. In fiscal 2022, SeaPort Manatee handled 177,108 cargo containers, nearly as many as Port Tampa Bay, which handled 178,637. SeaPort Manatee has been steadily closing
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Yesterday, the Moroccan government adopted a decree cancelling the value-added tax on agricultural inputs, searching to help lower prices of fresh produce and other agrifoods. In the African country, food inflation jumped to 20.1% in February, bringing general inflation to 10.1%, a level
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“I think passionfruit has long been a neglected product – few farmers grow it as a top priority crop and almost no-one goes to the store to buy passionfruit. We want to change that,” says Alex de Sousa of Aril Farms, a name he’d like to be associated with high-quality passionfruit. read more

Satisfying consumers with an extraordinary taste experience until June? Yes You Kanzi®! It is a dynamic public, always looking for an injection of energy, that of the apple marketed by the VOG and VIP Consortia, which in this second part of the season have put
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The introduction to the market of plastic products signed by Termotecnica Pericoli continues at full speed. After the success achieved with theACF21p air circulation fan, their new challenge is to launch an evaporative pad made of self-extinguishing PVC. read more

The Coop Alleanza 3.0 expansion contract was signed at the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies. This is a very important agreement involving a total investment of more than EUR 40 million and which will allow a radical upgrade of the
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Researchers at Tel Aviv University have for the first time recorded and analysed sounds emitted by plants. The click-like sounds, reminiscent of the popping of popcorn, are emitted at a volume that resembles human speech, but at
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Vietnam's agricultural exports to China are facing increasing difficulties due to tightening export requirements, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD). According to Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Lê Minh Hoan China is no longer an easy market due
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Supplies of strawberries from Central Mexico are coming to the end of the season. “The industry has pushed central Mexico certainly later than what would normally be the case because of the storms in California and the California crops coming on late. Central Mexico has done really really well
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