Italy is entering the final stretch of its strawberry campaign. A year that, as in other producing areas of the Mediterranean Arc, has been marked by high temperatures. This situation has not affected the productive and commercial development of Inspire, which belongs to the varietal program of
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More than 3.6 million amphetamine tablets have been confiscated by Saudi authorities in the Riyadh region. Maj. Mohammed Al-Nujaibi, spokesman for the General Directorate for Narcotics Control, said that “the security monitoring of drug smuggling and promotion networks … has resulted in the
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The Northern Hemisphere season is about to become intensive and challenging. The Oscar® Greece kiwifruit campaign ended on a positive note with strong support for targeted country marketing actions. Primland expects to finish marketing its French kiwifruit towards the end of May with excellent
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Harrison Feng is the Director at Shandong Imperial Garden Biotechnology, a large producer of shiitake logs from China. The company has a strong and growing export division. Covid-19 hampered exports for a few years, but recently the market has stabilized and activities are returning to pre-Covid
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The Frutas y Citricos de Mula cooperative brought together a wide representation of Anecoop stone-fruit-producing partners at its headquarters on Wednesday. It is an internal meeting that the second-degree cooperative holds every year to lay the strategic foundations for the current campaign.
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The number of port strikes around the world has been growing over the past year, causing headaches for many parties. The number of protests and strikes affecting port operations quadrupled last year to 38 incidents. From trucker stoppages in South Korea to dock strikes in Britain, worker
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On 6 June 2023, under the slogan “The Changing Geopolitical Landscape and the Future for Potato Trade”, the first-time ever Polish edition of the Europatat Congress will take place. It will focus on the impact of current geopolitics for international agri-food trade and on the effect of
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The wholesale prices for yellow onions of the 2022 harvest in the markets of Chisinau increased by 0.5-1 MDL/kg in the first half of this week up to an average of 15 MDL/kg ($0.83/kg). The rise in the price of onions in the Moldovan market is a normal seasonal phenomenon in April. It is
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Schedule reliability is one of the many competitive elements in this industry, and as such, the relative performance of the shipping lines provides a view of their competitive positioning. read more

"With our twenty years of experience in the sector, we design and build greenhouses for agriculture as well as photovoltaic greenhouses. We aim at being a social driving force in a territory - that of Calabria - that is not yet ready to value its land, and therefore to benefit from its huge
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Vegan caviar. This product may raise a few eyebrows, but Kuperus Foods recently added black garlic vegan caviar to its product line. And according to this Dutch company's founder Anne Kuperus, it is gaining popularity. Caviar does not have the best reputation in terms of animal friendliness. The
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March has been a very strong month for the Polish apples, says Jan Nowakowski, manager for Polish apple distributor, Genesis Fresh: “The sales of apples in March peaked compared to February and previous months. The beginning of the month was very good and this feeling continued for the whole
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Joya Europe sees good opportunities for the Joya apple this season, as marketable volumes have doubled to 13,000 tonnes compared with last season. read more

Italian packaging specialist Carton Pack has revealed that it has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in Smilesys. read more

What are the main challenges facing vegetable growers in Belgium at the moment, and what are they coming to you for research on? read more

With Hass avocado plantings booming across the world – not least in Peru, Colombia and Kenya – you would be forgiven for thinking there wasn’t much need for another country to get in on the act. But outside the summer peak, from May to October, avocado supply to Europe is lower, and buyers
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In some ways, Belgium’s system for buying and selling fruit and vegetables seems a bit old-fashioned. But the recent scrutiny of British retailers’ fixed seasonal contracts for most fresh produce has made some consider the merits of alternative models – systems which arguably return a
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What are Uganda’s main fresh produce exports and markets in Europe? read more

Let’s be honest, Brexit has been a big headache for EU exporters of fresh produce to the UK. Yes, EU imports have so far been allowed to cross the border without sanitary or phytosanitary checks – on all but the highest-risk products. But the London School of Economics estimates that the
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Transforming a country’s food system from one geared towards domestic supply to one that embraces the outside world is no easy task. In food, Uganda has a tradition of being largely self-sufficient and, generally speaking, the East African nation produces more food than it consumes – thanks
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