New research on Ghanaian and Colombian banana workers in UK retail supply chains has shown that the Fairtrade Premium plays an important role in achieving living wages. read more

Belgian cooperative BelOrta this week announced the sale of the first strawberries of the season to kick off the new season. read more

Government officials in France have issued a recall on a consignment of Maltaise oranges sent from Tunisia to retailers across the country, after inspectors said they had found traces of Chlorpyrifos, a pesticide banned in the EU. read more

Can you tell us a bit about the Namibian table grape business, and the benefits of production in the country? read more

Leading environmental compliance data specialists Ecoveritas hailed 2023’s Packaging Innovations event in Birmingham a significant demonstration of the sector’s willingness to embrace upcoming Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) legislation. read more

Ecuador’s banana exports rose by almost 8% year-on-year in January to 35.01 million boxes. According to AEBE data, the main markets were the European Union (30.16%), Russia (24.27%) and the Middle East (13.07%), which received a combined 23.63 million boxes. read more

Fairtrade and the International Trade Centre (ITC) have announced an expanded partnership aimed at helping farmers and agricultural workers to diversify and access new markets, achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and strive towards Agenda 2030. read more

A heavily set crop will impact fruit sizing for Californian Valencias this season, according to the California Department of Food and Agriculture. read more

“The official data of the environmental balance of paper production, by considering the entire tree-farm cycle for its production, that is, from when the trees are planted, has shown a positive trend. It means that in the entire paper production cycle, the amount of CO2 absorbed by forests and
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Supplies of melons from Mexico and Central America continue to be slim. “There’s a bit more available than what had been out there on the market but it’s still a tight market. It’s across the board on all varieties and it’s been like this this whole winter season, starting in
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Our automated management system can be installed in only a few minutes by simply drilling two holes in the nutrient solution tank to upgrade the greenhouse to become automated and interconnected. Our system stands out for its simplicity, efficiency, and low costs compared to any other technology
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According to Dole spokespeople, the company may not be able to fully recover costs related to a ransomware attack that temporarily disrupted its North American operations in February. The Dublin-based fresh produce giant said the attack had a limited overall impact on the company, but was
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Recently, the Bremen wholesale market acquired a new tenant called Levante Organic Farming Ltd. The company can draw on a colorful range of products from 20 hectares of Spanish open ground cultivation and mainly acts as an agency for the parent company of the same name based in La Huerta de
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As reported by the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Statistical Office, in 2022 a total of 28 farms in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern cultivated bush berries on an area of 201.5 ha. This represents a decrease of 24.8 % compared to the previous year. The total harvest quantity of shrubberries was 169.4 t
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Orange juice price remained at an elevated level as demand for the commodity continues to outpace supplies. It was trading at $2.37 on Wednesday, a few points below the year-to-date high of $2.449. It has been one of the top-performing commodities, having jumped by 172% from its lowest point in
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The volume of exports of white cabbage from Uzbekistan in January-February 2023 decreased sharply and was the lowest in the same period of the last four years. Such a sharp drop in exports was caused by two main factors – the loss of most of the crop due to January frosts and weak demand
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The 2022-2023 Florida all orange forecast released by the USDA Agricultural Statistics Board is 16.1 million boxes, increased 100,000 boxes from the February forecast. If realized, this will be 61 percent less than last season’s final production. The forecast consists of 6.10 million boxes of
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Irrigation is critical for the development of horticultural production. Despite rich Georgia’s water resources, with 14 000 m3 of surface water per capita compared to the European average of 9 300 m3 [1], available water resources are unevenly distributed in Georgia and mainly accumulated
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According to the specialists of the Association of Producers and Exporters of Grapes of Moldova, “the state of the plantations of table grapes at the end of winter is encouraging.” Vines are well grown, and the wood mass is high. In contrast to the beginning of spring 2022, the phytosanitary
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It's quite a different situation for Long English cucumbers this year. "Last year was a tough year for the cucumber crop. Not in terms of quality, but we just had a flooded market," says Jeff Richardson of Great Lakes Greenhouses Inc. The reason? The brown rugose fruit virus which affects
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