Following intervention from the US authorities the US West Coast Port union strike was dissipated somewhat. This is despite a cargo hold-up worth US$5.2 billion. read more

Nearly two decades ago, the Sevillian company culminated with a real and differentiating alternative in the stone fruit segment through the incorporation of its Pluot® and Metis® interspecifics, plums hybridised with apricot, which resulted in a real and

real alternative for the stone fruit segment.
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The destruction of the Kakhovska Dam in Ukraine will have a major impact on the Ukranian fruit and vegetable cultivation, says Volodymyr Gurzhiy of Ukrainian apple exporter USPA: “Big volumes of fruits and vegetables, approximately 30 per cent of the entire production, are grown in the south
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Puglia's green florid fig campaign kicks off. Italian apricot production gets underway. There is a high trend for melons, especially row melons, while demand for watermelons is slow to start. Production of Italian cherries is very low. Trentino mountain strawberries
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The 20th anniversary of the "Echt kuh-l!" school competition organised by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) was all about school break catering. Under the motto "Food makes school! Organic, diverse and healthy", children and young people were able to learn about the interrelationships between
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Supplies of peaches out of South Carolina are extremely limited thanks to a freeze the region saw in March. “Not all growers are picking and packing and those who are, are not doing it every day,” says Michael Blume of Keystone Fruit Marketing Inc. read more

Summer temperatures have finally arrived and the demand for thirst-quenching products has also gone into fourth gear. At the Rimini Food Centre, for example, sales - and demand - for watermelons and melons, summer fruits par excellence, exploded. read more

It seems that the Russian Federation expects that an agreement for establishing a free trade zone between Iran and the Eurasian Economic Union will be signed before the end of the year. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Overchuk said recently: "Now, indeed, the EEU has come very close to
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Fruit trading companies in Germany are also abused as "unwanted servants" in drug smuggling from South America to Europe. This was the conclusion drawn by investigators from the Federal Criminal Police Office and the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office at the annual conference of the German Fruit Trade Association
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As Brussels seeks strengthened economic ties with Africa, in the face of competition from China, Kenya, and the European Union have signed a trade deal to that effect. Kenyan President William Ruto presided over a ceremony in Nairobi on Monday to mark the formal conclusion of negotiations for
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The vegetable grower BEHR from Seevetal presented its microwave vegetable BEHR'S Dampfgenuss at the Symposium Feines Essen + Trinken symposium on 15 and 16 June in Munich. In addition to lectures on the topic of nutrition and its development in the future, new products were presented at various stands.
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During the open day in the field organised by the SOILLESS research project (SOstenibilità ambientale, Innovazioni di processo e di prodotto per la competitività deLLE coltivazioni Senza Suolo in Puglia, click here to read more), the experimental trial that
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It is half past one in the morning and the shop assistants at a supermarket in Caravaggio, in the province of Bergamo, expect anything but to seeVittorio Sgarbi come in to buy a mango. read more

After the latest in a series of winter storms that have swept through South Africa's Western Cape, growers of citrus and other fruits are facing a difficult period of recovery. Over the past ten days, the entire citrus crop in Oliphant's River has been
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The Castilla-La Mancha cooperative tried to estimate the 2023 apricot harvest in the region and, in consultation with other structures in the area, it emerged that production will fall by 65% compared to the previous year. The spokesman for the stone fruit sector, José Carlos Blázquez,
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Bangladesh's export earnings from mango have jumped this year as local growers are supplying an improved quality of the popular fruit through both private and public initiatives. About 1,757 tons of mango were exported by air in 2022, while 600 tons of the fruit have been shipped so far this
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EastFruit analysts are closely monitoring the situation in Serbia, where heavy rains have led to floods. The natural disaster is observed in a large number of regions of the country, including the region of compact cultivation and processing of raspberries. It could have a very serious impact on
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After consulting with the cooperatives in the sector, Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias Castilla-La Mancha has estimated that the production of apricots in the region in 2023 would decrease by 65% over the previous year. read more

The Murcian Institute for Agrarian and Environmental Research and Development (Imida), has developed a range of premium stonefruit varieties that are able to withstand the effects of climate change. read more

Potato supplier Branston has renewed its front-of-shirt sponsorship of Lincoln City Football Club for a second successive season.  read more