The widely-reported shortages of salad vegetables over the past month have helped drive a jump in the overall UK inflation rate. read more

Packaging Automation owner and chairman Anthony Penn has died, the company has announced. read more

Carbon-neutral potato brand Root Zero has launched new packaging and a digital out-of-home advertising campaign supporting its listings in Waitrose stores across London. read more

While exports still fall short of the 2019/20 level of $2.75billion, this year’s shipments were by 4% on last year to $2.47billion, despite supplying less volume internationally. read more

Heavy rains in northern Peru are affecting the harvesting of crops including mangoes, table grapes, avocados and organic bananas. read more

Lidl exported 27,000 tonnes of Portuguese fruit and vegetables to 11 countries in 2022 through a joint campaign with industry association Portugal Fresh. read more

Avocados are currently the most-consumed tropical fruit in the world. One of the biggest consumers of avocados in the world is the US. Its annual per capita avocado consumption has already surpassed 4.1 kg, or three times the European consumption. read more

The Spanish avocado season is ending in the south, while it is starting in the Region of Valencia, a later area with more limited quantities. The first containers of fruit from Peru are also arriving. read more

This month, British supermarkets including Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose agreed to pay for audits on British farms to inspect the conditions of foreign seasonal workers and combat abuse. They caved to pressure from investors, worried about their exposure to potential abuses in supply chains. read more

The lemon sector in particular has managed to reduce its water footprint by 39% over the past 30 years to 271 m3/t, making the lemon the fruit with the smallest water footprint of all fruits grown in Spain. In the production of other citrus fruits, the water footprint is
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According to Moldovan statistics, in 2021, the country supplied apples to 18 countries of the world, and the list expanded to 30 last year. The heads of ministries, departments, international donor programs, and local non-governmental organizations of agricultural producers believe this is a
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In recent years, Uzbekistan has been actively developing the production of raw materials from a medicinal plant – ferula, the plantation areas of which are intensively expanding, and processing and export of finished products are being organized, EastFruit experts note. read more

After two strong months, March has been on and off when it comes to the apple trade in Poland. Mateusz Wajnert, head of sales for Polish apple exporter Galster, states that demand is looking similar to previous years: “After both a very good January and February, March seems kind of unreal. We
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BDA/Dorot Farm, the grower group of fresh, sweet carrots from Israel, is starting the new export season to Europe and North America. read more

This year's Ramadan period officially starts on March 22 and is a high-turnover season for many fruit wholesalers. "Due to the high prices of many products, this year's Ramadan period is proving rather difficult," says Göksel Keser, a buyer and seller at fruit wholesaler Yesil Ltd at the Essen
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Moleaer and Royal Brinkman are expanding their commercial relationship to deliver and support Moleaer’s nanobubble generators and solutions to high-tech greenhouse growers in Mexico. Local resources in Mexico are now available to serve horticulture and greenhouse growers to install, maintain
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An average kilogram price of over €4.50 and a price increase compared to January of 171 percent: last month, tomato prices were extreme. The European Commission's tomato dashboard shows this once again. The Netherlands stands out in the new update with by far the highest prices and most
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Blueberries are a perishable fruit, which are easily to damage during processing, and are also prone to mildew and dehydration in storage and logistics. This also brings great difficulties to the transportation, storage and sales of blueberries. The preservation of blueberries has also become a
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UK food inflation reached a new high of 18.2% this past month amid a shortage of fresh fruit and vegetables on supermarket shelves. The price of basics such as vegetables, eggs, and dairy products soared to levels not seen in 45 years, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. Food
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With organic sales of 3,278 million Swiss francs, two percent less organic food was sold in the Swiss retail trade in 2022 compared to the previous year. This decline is explained by the return of consumers to the consumption behavior they maintained before the pandemic. In a multi-year view,
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