Grocery price inflation has fallen slightly, but is still at one of the highest levels seen in the past 15 years. read more

The online ticketshop is now open for Asia Fruit Logistica. Asia’s premier fresh fruit and vegetable trade show is back in Hong Kong on 6-8 September 2023, bringing together the global fresh produce business and showcasing the comprehensive value chain. read more

The Spanish interprofessional association of fruits and vegetables (HORTIESPAÑA) held its VII Ordinary General Assembly last week in which it was unanimously decided to elect Juan Tomás Cano Aguilera as the new president of the organisation. Francisco Góngora Cañizares, who has been the
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Imported fruit passing through Pingxiang’s Youyi Port was up 246% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2023, reaching 643,400 tons. Youyi Port Customs has supervised the import of 61,000 tons of durians (+633.6%), which accounts for 96% of Guangxi’s total and 66.3% of China’s overall
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Around 20m cartons of cherries could be packed in the US Pacific Northwest this season. read more

Dutch Greenhouse Delta (DGD) has hailed the benefits of its successful HortiRoad2India trade mission. read more

The recent New Zealand budget has delivered new funding to help the country’s horticulture sector harness the power of technology. read more

New Zealand kiwifruit specialist Zespri, Chilean fruit exporter Garces Fruit, and US-based berry marketer Driscoll’s have each formed a strategic partnership with retail chain Freshippo, which operates more than 300 stores across 27 cities in mainland China. read more

Sustainability is gaining in importance for 43% of people in Austria, and has remained the same for 45% - with hardly any differences between the generations. At the same time, the willingness to pay more money for an ecological-social product has increased by eleven percent.
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What if Disney princesses came to promote fruit and vegetables? read more

Bad weather is affecting crops in Lazio these days and future harvests are at risk; read more

The apple harvest is now complete in New Zealand. The Nelson region had a great harvest and was back to full production across the board. The Hawkes Bay region was hit hard by the cyclone back in March right at the start of harvest, but the resilient growers worked hard to pick the best quality
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Dear Editor, reading the article in your paper about the relationship between producers and large-scale organised distribution (to read the full article click here) has 'intoxicated my day' as we say down home. As you well know, we farmers have a particular sensitivity
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Analysts at EastFruit think that the potato price rise is unlikely in Georgia in the near future. May is a transitionary period when the Georgian market switches from last year’s potatoes to the potatoes from the new harvest. Sometimes, when the previous harvest, which mainly takes place in
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In the largest domestic open-air cultivation area for fresh vegetables - and thus close and ultra-fresh for trade and consumers - literally thousands of heads are now rolling every day: lettuce, oakleaf, lollo rosso and bionda, iceberg, romaine, batavia, crispana or snack salads show
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Global PMIs show that growth momentum continued to improve throughout the first quarter of 2023. This growth is being driven by services as China continues post-pandemic reopening and energy prices stay low. read more

Automation can help get more out of less, making it intrinsically sustainable. Automation and strategically planned intralogistics can enable businesses in diverse industries to become more eco-friendly. Global intralogistics specialist, Cimcorp has customers in two core sectors – grocery
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Will our sector be able to stem the invasion of new vegetable-based service products that the market proposes in the large-scale distribution channels (not forgetting Ho.re.ca.) within the other fresh departments? read more

Solidarity initiatives in favour of the flood victims by trade associations, retailers continue to grow. Here are some of them. read more

About 300,000 tons are loaded annually at the Munich wholesale market. Despite various challenges, import volumes fluctuated only marginally. "After we had to put up with some crises in recent years, the situation is now stabilizing again," says Kira Weißbach, manager at Markthallen München.
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