"This year there were no significant failures regarding stone fruit, so we expect a relatively normal harvest. It is also a good year for the peels, as the fruits tend to be smaller. More rain is needed for the fruits to grow larger," the Llombart company informs us. "We have started the season
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"The overseas citrus season is, once again, off to an interesting start," says Exsa Europe's Eddy Kreukniet. "Especially noticeable is that citrus across the board is coming to market as much as two weeks earlier. That makes it as if much larger volumes are being shipped, but considering that
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The blueberry coloured Macfrut blue, the fruit and vegetable fair that filled the halls of the Rimini Expo Centre with visitors for three days. The second day of International Blueberry Days (Thursday 4 May) saw the Global Players, represented by the companies
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Week 16, average wholesale prices of bananas produced within Europe stood at €105/100 kgs in Spain. Prices in the Portugal came in at €200 per 100 kgs, while the French paid €135/100 kgs. read more

From today to 11 May, the Agribologna Group is attending TuttoFood, with CONOR and Fresco Senso. CONOR, for over 50 years a reference point for the distribution of fresh fruit and vegetables, for the catering, large-scale retail trade and import-export channels, comes to TuttoFood and the meeting with buyers
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"This season, we're continuing longer, until mid/end May, with good quality Brazilian and Honduran melons and watermelons. In May, supply from Spain and Italy will also slowly begin arriving, with expected limited quantities and high prices," begins Frank Ocampo (Melon and Watermelon Global
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Based on its preliminary unaudited annual results for the financial year 2022/23, Greenyard has decided to resume its dividend policy. The Board of Directors of Greenyard will therefore propose to the Annual General Meeting on 15 September 2023 to pay a dividend of €0.10 per
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There will be strong markets for potatoes in the next few years. That’s what Tony Wisdom Founder and CEO of Skagit Valley Farm and Valley Pride Sales thinks as he looks ahead to the 2023 potato season and beyond. This is especially so given the higher pricing currently seen on
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Greenyard has decided to reinstate a dividend policy with a dividend of € 0.10 per share proposed for the full financial year, which ended in March 2023. This is based on its preliminary, unaudited full-year results for the financial year 2022/2023. The board of directors of Greenyard will
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This year's "May Day" holiday has significantly boosted fruit sales. After the holiday, the traffic in the fruit market decreased this week, and the overall sales have been relatively slow, and the prices of some fruits have been lowered. Some merchants said that Mother's Day will have a certain
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Currently, the company Bayer. Pilze & Waldfrüchte Uwe Niklas Ltd is in the middle of the morel season, Lisa Niklas tells us. "The quality is very good, and there are good volumes available. We offer the morels in different sizes: For example, there are select small morels, medium-fall or
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Red Globe, the mainstay table grape cultivar of Peru has finally had to pass the ‘mantle’ of most produced grape to the white seedless Sweet Globe. According to Benjamín Cilloniz, General Manager of Exportadora Safco Peru S.A, in the past 2022-2023 season: “I have been analysing the
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EastFruit expert Bakhtiyor Abduvokhidov visited the wholesale and retail market in the north of Tajikistan and shared an interesting video in which he shows the assortment, quality, unusual packaging and very low prices of fruits and vegetables. The information is valid for of May 3, 2023
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When Denmark joined the European Union in 1973, Nordic Greens - called Alfred Pedersen then - promptly planted tomatoes in its greenhouses. That was the country's first commercial tomato crop. "The company, founded in 1948, focused on growing cucumbers, but my father, for whom the company was
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Rabobank recently published their World Avocado Trade Map, charting global avocado production, consumption and trade. According to the bank, avocado trade will continue to grow in the next few years, but the market will be more competitive, forcing operators to be more efficient and increasingly
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From the halls of Macfrut, VOG is already looking ahead to the 2023/2024 apple season. On the occasion of the Rimini appointment, the Consortium outlined its next strategies, based on the four elements of the Home of apples structure: origin, expertise, sustainability, products and brands; read more

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Whether meat tomato, Roma tomato, panicle tomato, cherry tomato, cocktail tomato or vine tomato - with a per capita consumption of 7.3 kg*, the usually bright red nightshade is the declared favourite vegetable of the Germans. Whether fresh, cooked, preserved or as ketchup, whether in salads, pasta sauces or on top of
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