Fresh lemons are purchased by 70% of Italian families, equal to over 40 million individuals a year with an average purchase of 6 kilograms of product per family (CSO/GFK data) for an offer of around 450,000 tons in Italy, according to the PGI Syracuse Lemon Consortium. Italians prefer packaged
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Sri Lanka’s Agriculture Minister Mahinda Amaraweera announced that 19% of vegetables and 21% of fruits in the country are destroyed due to a lack of proper transportation. This amounts to 221,955 tons of vegetables and 290,151 tons of fruit that people cannot eat. The Minister expressed these
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The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has invested in leading Australian potato and onion producer Mitolo Family Farms. read more

The Philippines has sent its first shipment of fresh durian to China, three months after a protocol was agreed upon. read more

The Western Australia Apple Variety & Innovation Conference (WAAVIC) attracted a healthy contingent of growers and packers from across Australia and the world. read more

Lemon farmers of Nellore and Tirupati districts are getting worried. The farmers are alleging that the increase in exports from other parts of the country is impacting their exports. The price of one bag of lemons has reached Rs 4,000-5,000 which has reduced drastically when compared to the
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According to Iurie Fala, CEO of Moldova Fruct, the country’s fruit growers and exporters association Moldova is exporting fewer of its apples to the CIS region than it did a couple of years ago: “Moldova has a continuous trend of diversifying the apple export market, with a decreasing share
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A shortage of imports due to weather conditions and limited harvest volumes at the start of the season for German early vegetables supported prices at the time of Easter, when demand was high. However, the tide turned in mid-April. Can the stable prices still be maintained? read more

The Kenyan government has temporarily lifted the ban on export of raw macadamia nuts, which was in place since 2015, to offer the growers better prices. According to Moses Kuria, Cabinet Secretary at the Ministry of Trade and Industrialization, the ban will be lifted for one year to open up the
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Seedless fruits and vegetables in different sizes, available all year round; varieties grown with less water and land, resistant to new diseases, needing less chemicals; tastier, varied, affordable and safe, wheat for coeliacs,
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The first large batches of early potatoes of the new crop began to arrive at the wholesale markets of the capital of Uzbekistan in the past 7-10 days. As expected, the first wholesale batches of early potatoes this year became available on the markets three weeks later than last year, EastFruit
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The global trade in conventional bananas has become increasingly concentrated over the past decade. As a result, nowadays most of the bananas offered at German retailers are imported directly, which is why the general conditions for smaller fruit importers are tending to become more difficult.
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Making relatively inexpensive investments in order to rationalize natural and energy resources and grow in line with food safety principles, as well as automating facilities to make the technological and digital transition of production processes sustainable while also reducing labor
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on 4 April, the company Alzchem Trostberg GmbH obtained the temporary authorisation for phytosanitary emergencies by way of derogation, as provided for in Article 53(1) of EC Reg. 1107/2009, for the use of Sitofex® in the fight against bacterial canker of actinidia
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According to the Union of Associations of Nut Producers of Moldova, the members of the organization began to receive requests to buy walnut kernels this week. This has occasionally happened before, but Moldovan export traders did not respond to such requests, since the main market for Moldovan
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The Natural Fruit Company (TNFC), an agribusiness specialising in the production and marketing of citrus, melons and watermelons, continues its commitment to sustainable actions that implement the goals set out in its social responsibility strategy. read more

Fruit breeding has a long generation time as it takes years to develop a new table grape or cherry variety. As a result, global warming is a significant concern to factor in and one that impacts all regions in the world. “Due to the long propagation time, we need to predict 10 to 20 years in
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- I think that inspecting cherry orchards after frost surprised many of us," says Mr Grzegorz Pagacz from Biała Rządowa, near Wieluń. As our interviewee explains, he observes the greatest frost damage on the Kordia variety. read more

The 'Pelato di Napoli' still awaits IGP recognition. Two years after the publication in the Official Gazette of the production regulations for the Igp peeled tomatoes of Naples, Campania is still waiting for the final step, i.e. Community registration of the quality mark; read more

While waiting for European recognition of the Protected Geographical Indication (click here to read more), the Basilicata strawberry is making its way onto the market with themed initiatives, such as the 'Strawberry of Basilicata Party'. The event, conceived by Nicola Vallinoto and Antonio Orlando, was
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