The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has issued an emergency authorisation for the plant protection product CURATIO (active ingredient: lime sulphur broth). read more

The upward trend in the already record-high prices for onions continues in the Ukrainian market, due to the reduction in onion stocks in local farms and the consistently high demand, analysts of the EastFruit project inform. read more

Australian macadamia growers are urging shoppers to pop macadamias in their trolleys ahead of a predicted record crop. It’s predicted 60,000 tons of nut-in-shell will be harvested in this year’s season. This comes after farmgate prices tumbled from a record $6.20 per kilogram in 2020 to
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Nut processors require different sorting solutions to perform various tasks as they shell, peel, and process their products. At first, sorting machines take care of fairly basic tasks. As nuts move up the production line, sorters become more sophisticated and specialized. The almond process is a
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Vegetable breeding company Rijk Zwaan and an Italian seed company have settled in respect of a long-running litigation before the Court of Modena, Italy. This Italian company had been accused of reproducing and marketing seeds of Rijk Zwaan lettuce varieties, which are protected by plant
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"The crises of recent years has also affected the citrus sector. More and more frequently we are seeing that very good fruits do not find a market, due to foreign competition, to the point that sometimes the harvest doesn't even take place. In the last glimpse of the Apulian clementine
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Italian company L'Agri Valle Bronda offers many different products and services to growers in Northern Italy, including crop protection. read more

"In general, the production of bell peppers, not only of the Lamuyo, but also of other kinds, is much more limited at the moment due to the weather conditions. Although this is not the only reason," said Isaac Garcia, of the company Veganature from Almeria, Spain, which is specialized in red
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The intensive production and auxiliary industry trade fair in Almeria, Infoagro Exhibition, which will hold its fourth edition from 10 to 12 May at the Palacio de Congresos in Aguadulce (Almeria), continues to add initiatives to ensure that its exhibiting companies have within their reach the
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According to Diego Aliaga, head of the Agroforestry Innovation Center at the Universidad Científica del Sur (UCS), research on micro-tomatoes is progressing positively. "Trials were carried out with four varieties, and theSolanum pimpinellifolium variety was chosen. It was used to start the
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According to the Moldova Sustainable Development Fund, in the area of centralized irrigation systems in the Dniester and Prut river basins managed by Water Users Associations about 7 000 ha were irrigated in 2022, of which about half were vegetables and perennial fruit crops. In 2020, which was
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The watermelon season in the northern hemisphere has started. Fresh & Cash Ltd in Wuppertal is now loading the first batches from Mauritania. "We now get one truck a week and start the new season several weeks earlier compared to last year. Normally, the season doesn't really get going until
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This range includes products such as Rental Bioforce, with a special formulation based on humic acids from leonardite and marine algae enriched with selected strains of Trichoderma harzianum and Bacillus, as well as other solutions such as Ammonite and Trilobite.Benefits and differentiation in
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A record Macfrut is expected (3-5 May at Rimini Expo Centre): +25% of exhibition areas and +50% of international companies compared to last year's edition. The numbers are expected to exceed the 2019 edition, 20 international presentations Renzo Piraccini read more

As EastFruit has reported multiple times, global demand for hazelnut had been suffering from the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. EastFruit analysts highlight that export volumes from Georgia have increased and surprisingly the prices have also moved up. Meanwhile,
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It is called Plaizir the new smooth melon launched last year by Hm.Clause, ready for a season of consolidation in the large-scale retail trade. A late variety that manages to extend the calendar to the whole month of September and beyond, guaranteeing a high standard of quality, as Alessandro
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According to the Thuringian State Office for Statistics, Thuringia's farms growing vegetables harvested a total of 13,590 tons of open ground vegetables from 683 hectares last year. Compared to the previous year, this was 2,900 tons or 18 percent less vegetables. The total area under cultivation
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The Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) is organising a congress on hazelnut cultivation in Germany on 10 and 11 May. The aim of this conference is to collect and pool the knowledge and experience already available. The conference is aimed at
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Wholesale prices for walnut kernels in the Moldovan market increased in the last week of February for the first time in 2023. The level of the average and maximum prices increased slightly by about 6% – up to 75-80 MDL/kg ($ 3.99-4.06/kg), EastFruit specialists report. read more

In the first episode of the video series on data-driven cucumber cultivation, Marcel Huibers (agronomist) and cucumber specialist Kees van Vliet invite you to the BASF Vegetable Seeds greenhouse in 's-Gravenzande. They will talk about the most important lessons learned in 2022, about the experiences they
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