The South African citrus industry has always said that its products are valued across the globe for their high quality. This is also the case in the US, where growers from the Western and Northern Cape have built a significant market during more than two decades. read more

Biobest has announced the completion of the transaction to acquire US-based biopesticide manufacturer and marketer BioWorks. read more

The John Lewis Partnership is making a £100,000 donation via charity partner FareShare to ensure thousands of nutritional meals reach people in need across the UK. read more

July sees the celebration of Melon & Watermelon Innovation Days, a conference in which the main Spanish and international seed houses with experimental centres and farms in the Region of Murcia open their doors to professionals in the agricultural sector to showcase their latest developments
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There is a paradigm shift in the management of plant health thanks to new biological solutions that offer producers an effective means of controlling pests. This is also the case for the citrus and persimmon crops that the Anecoop cooperative group specialises in producing, leading it to
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A dock worker from Portsmouth, who was involved in a plot to smuggle millions of pounds worth of cocaine into the UK in pallets of bananas was caught after police switched out the drugs for dummy packages. The suspect was on shift at Portsmouth docks in April last year when 372 pallets of
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Above-average claims but also above-average premium growth characterised the 2022 financial year of Gartenbau-Versicherung. At this year's meeting of member representatives in Kamp-Lintfort, the Board of Management again presented the most important developments on both sides of the balance
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Plum cultivation in Uzbekistan is demonstrating promising growth in exports, as evidenced by the latest statistical data. read more

Agricola Campidanese's Gavina watermelon campaign has begun (click here for more information). read more

Fruit will inevitably cost more or less, depending on the variety and where you are in the world. Still, there are of course the very exclusive fruits, that are a category on their own. You have the premium Yubari King Melon, harvested in the hills of Japan’s. Or there is the Ruby Roman Grape,
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After the end of the first half of the Moroccan watermelon season, with crops coming in from Zagora and other regions of southern Morocco, growers in Larache (north) and Gharb (west) are entering the market with imminent harvests. read more

The Organic Agriculture Committee of the Valencian Community (CAECV), the body responsible for the control, certification, representation and defence of organic products, as well as their research and promotion, presents its new promotional campaign for 2023,
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In the dynamic world of tomato production, every so often a major disruptive factor emerges that creates a demand for the industry to adapt and succeed. One such disruptive factor is the tomato rough rot virus (ToBRFV); which is spreading rapidly, affecting
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Vitaal, part of the Nationwide Fruit group, have announced that they will close their facility in Poeldijk, The Netherlands, citing increased post-Brexit protocols and increased paperwork and costs as contributing factors. read more

This is the final week of Pick n Pay’s annual June campaign that leverages mandarin popularity in aid of charity. read more

"Our latest machine to meet the needs of a customer in the Netherlands is an all-electric harvester for leafy vegetables, especially parsley, powered by solar energy," says Alberico Durso, founder of Dari Ecomeccanica, a machine builder from Eboli, in the southern Italian province of Salerno. read more

F.lli Orsero innovates the fourth range segment with an absolute novelty for the Italian market, Cocco Snack, a fresh, organic product. Rapid pasteurisation that prolongs the life of the product read more

French apricots are currently going through a difficult period, due to a number of factors that have gradually driven prices down to levels unacceptable to producers. “The situation is partly due to the general economic context and the drop in purchasing power,” explains Raphaël Martinez,
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We are in the midst of the summer campaign and, by now, all the key references of the season have made their debut; these last few months have presented us with the bill for climate change; in fact, we have witnessed catastrophic events that have brought certain sectors of the
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The morning was subdued in terms of sales, probably a drop in turnout due to the holiday effect. For watermelons, we report a slight but not significant drop in price; for melons, we report a drop in price, especially on the retato, while the smooth keeps
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