Colombia has become the second Latin American country to launch a Plastics Pact to tackle the environmental impacts of plastics and support international work developing a circular economy for plastics. read more

With an investment of 250 million dollars, American company Lamb Weston is building a giant potato processing plant. The new factory is under construction in the Industrial Park of Mar del Plata; work started a year ago and is proceeding according to plan. read more

Morocco is imposing quotas on tomato exports in an effort to boost local supplies and lower prices ahead of the fasting month of Ramadan. Rising input prices, pest attacks, and repeated droughts have combined to hamper production at the world’s fourth-largest tomato shipper. However, the
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According to the Ministry of Agriculture's latest State of the Crops report, in week 7 (February 13 to 19), producers in the pepper greenhouses of Western Almeria continued to uproot the earliest varieties. They were also harvesting the peppers that were planted later and that are coming to the
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Retail and wholesale markets in Sweden, are seeing elevated fruit and vegetable prices, mainly due to shortages from their main supplying countries, Spain and Italy. According to an update from Tradegardshalle Stockholm and Ewerman AB, two large importers and distributors in Sweden, cauliflower
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Recently, Latvian potatoes experienced one of the steepest price jumps in the past 10 years, reaching an average increase of 50%. Growers are now preparing for the new season in the hope that weather conditions will be favorable enough to finally produce good results after two years of poor
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The Philippines will start shipping durian to China next month. An initial volume of 7,500 tons of durians is ready to be sent to China in March, the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) said in a statement, citing the Department of Agriculture – Bureau of Plant Industry. The initial
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The ToBRFV virus (Tomato Brown Rugose Virus) is one of the main challenges that the tomato growing sector has been facing in recent years. Since its appearance in 2015, Semillas Fitó has been working to offer solutions to the sector with virus-resistant varieties.
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At least 150 banana growers whose plantations were infected with Fusarium wilt or Panama disease shifted to corn farming in Davao del Norte province. This meant they became the first beneficiaries of Governor Edwin Jubahib’s KAAGAPAY Corn Program that provides farmers with free corn seeds and
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The Ukrainian Association 'Berry Production of Ukraine' took part in the international exhibition Fruit Logistica 2023. Because a sufficient number of exhibitors was not collected, the National Stand of Ukraine was organized with the support of the ITS project and the Swedish government, and in
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There will have been a lot of puzzled and also worried faces in the UK in the past few days and there still are, because Tesco, Asda, Aldi and Morrisons have limited the sales quantities of peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes and co. per person. Customers are only allowed to buy three or two pieces per product.
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California annually produces the majority of the peaches in the US. In 2017, the Golden State produced 56 percent of the county’s fresh peach crop and more than 96 percent of processed peaches. South Carolina, Georgia and New Jersey are also significant producers. read more

Lettuce supplies could be in for another supply interruption. “We have another cooling trend and another weather system coming through that’s supposed to affect supplies out of Mexico and into the desert area which may cause that interruption,” says Paul Vogel of QSI Produce. read more

Port of Tauranga achieved an 11 percent increase in group net profit for the first six months of the 2023 financial year, despite a fall in total cargo volumes. Group net profit to December was $62.7 mln. Operating revenue was up 13.9 per cent on the previous period to $211.9 mln. New
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A new large-scale factory with over 22,000 sqm of production and storage space for reusable systems and sustainable pallets is being built at the Hannover-West Autobahn interchange (A2/A352). Intech Worldwide GmbH has been successfully producing in Hanover-Marienwerder since 2008, but due to an
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In January, Brazilian banana exports dropped compared to the same month last year. According to Secex, the volume shipped was 7,280 tons, down 12%. Revenue dropped 9%, amounting to just US$ 2.98 million (FOB). read more

Vegacañada, the Agroponiente Group's tomato specialist, continues to be the great option for tomato growers in the Vega de Almeria and has now been offering solutions, advice, services and support to growers for more than twenty years. read more

Operation managers and technical teams visiting Clarifruit’s booth at Fruit Logistica in Berlin (2023) experienced a live demo of the automatic defect detection technology. The world’s first AI-powered quality control (QC) software has been showcasing the speed and precision of defect
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The arrival of consignments of oranges from Egypt to some Spanish warehouses, especially in Valencia, has raised concern in the Valencian Farmers' Association (AVA-ASAJA) due to the lack of reciprocity with which these imports are entering and the threat that, because of
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The global pineapple market shows a varied picture, with cold and rainy spells affecting the cultivation in some countries like Costa Rica, South Africa, and Spain. The demand for pineapples in the Netherlands remains low, despite limited supply in the market. According to a Dutch importer,
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