The South African citrus sector has been told it can expect a smooth transfer from the Northern to the Southern Hemisphere supply season. read more

Sun World International executive vice president and chief science officer Jennifer Petersen has announced the appointment of Paola Barba as the company’s new table grape breeder. read more

Yuca or cassava supplies out of Costa Rica are seeing some challenges currently. Costa Rica is a year-round producer of the root vegetable and the crop takes approximately nine months to mature. “There’s an oxidization in this crop in the root and experts here say it’s due to a
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Just in time for Mother's Day and the barbecue season, SPAR is putting Styrian asparagus in the spotlight together with the "young WILD ("jungen WILDEN") vegetable farmers". The cooperation with the innovative farmers' group from southeastern Styria is now entering its fifth year. May is
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It’s very unclear what kind of damage the frosts have caused to the Polish blueberries, says Sandra Stefaniak-Syguła, co-owner of Polish berry trader Berrytrade: “It’s challenging for us to predict what kind of damages these frosts will cause, because we are not growers ourselves. And you
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Courgettes from the Spanish and Moroccan growing regions have been pushing onto the German market for weeks. The growing conditions in the exporting countries are good, the weather with summer temperatures allow the fruits to grow and ripen quickly. The trade reacts
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According to Tim Boring, director of Michigan Asparagus Advisory Board, Michigan is the largest asparagus grower in the nation. Jamie Clover Adams, executive director of the same organization, stated: “When you are out shopping for asparagus, be sure to look for the ‘Product of Michigan’
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This appears in the quarterly publication of final sanctions in administrative or judicial proceedings by the Food Information and Control Agency (AICA), an autonomous body attached to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAPA). read more

Ireland is renowned as the land of potatoes, and nowadays also, a great part of the sweet potatoes eaten in Europe have Irish roots. From their greenhouse and propagation laboratory, Beotanics creates plant material that is used in their own sweet potato propagation company in Portugal. “By
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The stone fruit harvest is gaining momentum in Murcia, where significant volumes are already expected next week. The fruit is arriving with very good quality and high sugar levels as a result of the lack of rainfall in recent months and the high temperatures, which are forcing producers in
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April brought with it more rain than expected, with thunderstorms and heavy rainfall starting in the second week of the month. Towards the end of the month, on the morning of the 25th, a heavy hailstorm compromised much of the crops already in the field,
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Dr. Gunnar Schellenberger, president of the Saxony-Anhalt Landtag, has now seen for himself what sustainable production controlled by high-tech can achieve in one of the largest greenhouse facilities in Europe. He had followed an invitation from the Wimex Group, a company that produces
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Sicily's production of harvested melons is now in full swing. The situation is still critical for tomatoes, with high prices for cherry tomatoes in particular. Strawberry prices are also on the rise, with demand on the rise due to the high temperatures; asparagus prices are stationary. read more

At a press conference last week, the presidents of SAB-Almendrave from Spain and the Centro Nacional de Competências dos Frutos Secos (CNCFS) unveiled a collaboration - an EU-funded project to promote more almond production from Europe, with a focus on the Iberian Peninsula. read more

The sowing campaign, which started on February 20 with the planting of the short-cycle varieties, has reached its final stretch in the later areas of Leon, Burgos, and Segovia. These varieties especially aimed at the bagging sector, with some plantings concentrated in Valladolid and part of
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The ELWOBOT, an autonomously driving fruit and wine-growing robot with a modular energy supply and electric drive, is now entering the test phase after less than three years of planning and construction. This was announced by the Saxon State Office for the Environment, Agriculture and Geology (LfULG). read more

According to EastFruit analysts, the situation on the strawberry market in Eastern Europe is non-standard in 2023. Cold and mostly cloudy weather in Ukraine leads to a delay in the ripening of berries, which affects prices. read more

Characterized by a bright red flesh and a dark green - almost black -rind, Dolce Passione watermelons are now part of a consortium. Consorzio Dolce Passione was in fact presented at Macfrut - a fully Italian project that is the result of over 7 years of research that have brought to the
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Plants provide almost every calorie of food we eat. Grains like rice, wheat and corn make civilisation possible. For millennia, farmers have bred grains, fruit and vegetable varieties to get larger harvests and plants better able to tolerate different climates. read more

The wind gusts of more than 70 km/h caused by Cold Front #52 at the end of April toppled a considerable part of the Manila mango production, scheduled for 2023, in the municipalities of Actopan and Puente Nacional, stated Guillermo Palmeros Marin, the president of Veracruz's Mango Producers
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