Peru was the world’s top blueberry exporter for the fourth straight year, with shipments totalling US$1.36 billion in 2022. Peru held off competition from the US, Spain, Canada and Morocco, according to the Global Business and Economics Research Center of the Exporters Association CIEN-ADEX. read more

Freshfel Europe’s Consumption Monitor shows that there is still a long way to go to reach the minimum recommendation of 400 g/day of fresh fruit and vegetables. The latest edition of the organisation’s Consumption Monitor indicates that the average fruit and vegetable consumption in the EU
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The lifting of Covid restrictions in China, an improved logistics outlook and a good quality crop helped Chilean cherry exports reach a record 415,315 tonnes in 2022/23, a volume growth of 16.55 per cent on the previous season. read more

The lifting of Covid restrictions in China, an improved logistics outlook and a good quality crop helped Chilean cherry exports reach a record 415,315 tonnes in 2022/23, a volume growth of 16.55 per cent on the previous season. read more

Three cutting-edge projects will receive a share of £9.13 million in government funding to carry out research and development on proposals to boost agricultural productivity, sustainability and climate resilience, Defra has announced. read more

Greece’s main fresh fruit and vegetables trade fair, Freskon, returns to the Thessaloniki International Exhibition Centre on 23-25 April, with exhibitors from 15 countries – Greece, Uganda, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Egypt, Cyprus, Moldova, Poland, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Romania, Bosnia and
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The wild custard apple is one of a number of “forgotten food crops” identified as being potentially instrumental in adapting future food systems to climate change. read more

According to the report by the UK not-for-profit cooperative, farms in Spain are routinely breaking eight out of nine basic workers’ rights, with abuses including refusal of legal wages, forced labour, sexual assault and intimidation. The report names Aldi, Asda, Co-op, Lidl, Marks &
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Fruit buyers from JD Fresh, the online fresh food division of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com, have travelled to Thailand to meet with local growers.  read more

Rajat IG Biotech and Dr YS Parmar University have joined hands to launch a collaborative project aimed at producing and marketing clean planting material for the Indian fresh produce industry.  read more

Internal Trade Department under Thailand’s Commerce Ministry has teamed up with retailers to boost fruit sales and support the country’s growers. read more

The South African citrus industry is hoping for a more positive season this year after last year was a ‘disaster’ according to Justin Chadwick CEO of Citrus Growers' Association of Southern Africa. read more

Current prices for table beets in Ukraine are much lower than last year and keep falling further, EastFruit project analysts inform. Such a sharp decline in prices was a huge blow to Ukrainian farmers, who already suffered record losses due to hostilities in the main regions for growing borscht
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Labour MPs are imagining ways to tackle UK food shortages by making supermarkets pay farmers a fair price. In essence, Shadow Environment Secretary Jim McMahon says supermarkets make enough to soak up cost of supporting farmers. An incoming Labour administration would expect big grocery chains
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There are those who use under-foliage irrigation to create a micro-climate and those who prefer over-foliage anti-frost systems, pellet or wood burners, or even burners towed by tractors. Producers try to find many ways to protect their crops, FreshPlaza has witnessed it in Emilis Romagna on
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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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In Malta, potato crops suffered considerably from bad weather in early February. "While we were in Berlin, there were severe floods and storms. The streets and fields were flooded. I've not seen it that bad in all the time we've been importing new potatoes from Malta, and we’ve been doing so
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Seedless watermelons, melons and premium range tomatoes are the target of variety research by the Ragusa-based company MedHermes, developed through the Best Melon and Tomato Cult projects. read more

Saudi Arabia seems to be a new export market for apples from Bosnia and Herzegovina. This might make the Middle Eastern nation cover the losses incurred by the measures taken against Russia. In the first two months of this year, there were no exports of apples from Bosnia and Herzegovina to the
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A few days ago in the province of Saluzzo (Cuneo) the Fruit Food District was born, bringing together 45 municipalities. read more