Leading UK salad suppliers are gearing up for a huge uptick in leafy and prepared salad sales from May onwards, with the King’s coronation a potential high spot for demand. read more

How is the Polish fresh produce industry holding up against the many challenges we continue to see at the start of 2023? read more

J-Tech Systems has signed a partnership agreement with GreenKeeper. read more

SanLucar has revealed that it is joining forces with the Kitchen Stories cooking platform for the fourth time to launch a new promotion in German supermarkets under the slogan “Our recipe for good taste”. read more

Tesco has announced it has become the first UK retailer to go peat-free on its British-grown bedding plants. read more

Chile’s 2023 avocado crop is projected to fall 30% compared to 2022. The estimated total volume of 155,000 tons (source: Avocado Committee) is well below the 220,000 tons of the 2022 campaign, and also down 16% compared to the 186,000 tons projected in the previous estimate by the committee. read more

medFEL 2023 will be held on April 26th and 27th in Perpignan, France. This year, water, energy and food sovereignty will be at the heart of discussions. Around 230 French and foreign exhibitors, all committed to sustainable and eco-responsible initiatives, are expected at medFEL, divided up into
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Mission Produce has released its third annual sustainability report, Finest for the Future, which communicates the company’s global sustainability story during FY (fiscal year) 2022 (12 months to 31 October 2022).  read more

In a recent article in FUNGImagazine, Robert Beelman, professor emeritus of food science in the College of Agricultural Sciences at Penn State, drew comparisons between ERGO and penicillin. These are both products of fungi and have positive influence on human health but in different ways. read more

The latest CIV strawberries have been presented at the recent North America Strawberry Symposium, which took place on March 7-10, 2023, at San Louis Obispo in California. read more

To this end, Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) has filed objections with the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety against the authorisations of several plant protection products, including glyphosate. DUH announces that it will file a lawsuit if the objections are not resolved. Aim of the
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The South African fruit industry is investigating the possibility of a partial privatisation of Cape Town's harbour, with a loading zone only for fresh produce. read more

The Roman artichoke campaign is in full swing, but demand is struggling to take off despite the approaching Easter festivities. Agretti production is in full swing. Asparagus prices are rising due to a lack of product. Strawberry prices, on the other hand, are plummeting due to
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Despite a decrease in in yield recorded earlier this year, the avocado season in Morocco has recovered in fine form and ended on a positive note. Volumes almost hit an all-time record, allaying fears of the impact of the drought. But the season was also marked by difficulties, mainly in terms of
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"Last Wednesday, March 29, the market stopped marketing second-category long/black aubergines after the Extension of the Standard for this product was activated. Hortyfruta's Board of Directors has decided to deactivate the Standard Extension after verifying during its monitoring of the
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The Orri mandarin has performed rather well this season, says Planet Israel export manager, Betsalel Ohana: “We started the season in uncertainty, due to different directions of trends. Due to droughts and heatwaves around the world, we expected a lack of citrus fruits globally, while the
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Biogaronne, a group of producers specialized in the sale of organic products, has been marketing colored chard for about 2 weeks. “This is the second year that we sell organic colored chards. Last year, the quantities were not significant because we first wanted to test the market. Since the
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Vegetable breeding company Rijk Zwaan is celebrating the success of its consumer-facing ‘Love My Salad’ campaign, created to encourage British shoppers to buy and cook more vegetables. read more

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