On 26 January, an e-truck transported fresh fruit and vegetables from Bakker Belgium, a Greenyard company, to Delhaize for the first time. The new Volvo truck will deliver around 18,000,000 kg of fruit and vegetables to the retailer's distribution centre in Zellik every year, Greenyard says.
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The project, funded by the European Union, CSO Italy and leading Italian organic companies including Brio/Alce Nero, Almaverde Bio/Canova, Verybio, Ceradini Group, Orogel Fresco and Conserve Italia, aims to promote the European organic sector. Thereby
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The world’s largest fresh produce company Dole has handed overall responsibility for the development of its European customer base to Tobias Deil, who has taken on the role of managing director, Dole Europe GmbH. read more

HarvestEye is gearing up to launch a new version of its machine-learning root crops insights tool at Fruit Logistica in Berlin. read more

British plant and produce trade group, the Commercial Horticultural Association (CHA), will showcase its largest-ever group of UK exhibitors at the CHA pavillion during Fruit Logistica next month. read more

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and Maersk A/S, an entity of AP Moller-Maersk, have mutually agreed to terminate the 2M alliance, effective January 2025. read more

Fairtrade has launched a new risk map to identify and visualise the greatest human rights and environmental risks in the sectors where it is active. read more

What are your hopes for the year ahead, both for your company and the business as a whole? read more

Peruvian table grape association Provid has called on the government to urgently restore and maintain order as the escalating political crisis threatens to derail the export campaign. read more

IFOAM Organics Europe and the French Association of IFOAM Members are challenging the use of the “Eco-score” as an environmental label for non-organic food products as misleading to consumers, bringing legal action before the Paris Court of Justice. read more

AgriEuro is a success story. It is the story of the Settimi family who in the 1970s opened a retail shop in Spoleto for the sale of agricultural and gardening machinery. And in 2008 it became a company with online sales as well. Today it distributes, via ecommerce only, throughout the
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Over the past five to six years Moldova reduced area of apple each by a few hundred hectares each year. While in Moldova had 53 thousand hectares of apple orchard the total area went down in 2017 to 49 thousand hectares. New plantings were also made but the pace of new apple orchard development
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Tornike Mzhavanadze, an entrepreneurand now an inventor from Georgia, together with his partner Levan Shanava grows garden strawberries in the open field in the subalpine zone of Samtskhe-Javakheti region. Back in 2015, Tornike thought about growing strawberries in greenhouses on a dynamic
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EastFruit team is starting a series of market reports on frozen berries, fruits and vegetables. The first analytical report will be devoted to raspberries – the key product that gave impetus to the development of shock freezing industry in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. read more

The Consorzio Cipolla Bianca Margherita Igp is aiming for greater sustainability and product volumes thanks to digital farming tools, such as rain, humidity and soil condition detection. Production companies this year will acquire (by purchasing
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The main fresh fruit and vegetable fair in the world will once again be the platform to demonstrate Peru’s leadership in agrobiodiversity, its export capacity and the quality of its products. Thanks to the efforts of the Commission for the Promotion of Peru for Exports and Tourism
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The site for a new phytosanitary inspection centre for table grapes that will allow Chilean exporters to ship to the US under a Systems Approach has been agreed. read more

Spanish fresh fruit and vegetable exports decreased 10.5 per cent during the January-November period of 2022, totalling 10.7m tonnes, according to the latest data from the Department of Customs and Excise. read more

The Melbourne Market community has celebrated Lunar New Year in style.  read more