For a long time, celery - also known as pale celery or celery in the bunch - led a niche existence in the German vegetable assortment. As recently as 2012, celery accounted for only 0.22% of household vegetable purchases. By 2022, the purchase volumes had more than doubled.
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Despite the challenging market environment, Edeka Nord can look back on a respectable financial year 2022. Edeka Nord's consolidated sales were around 3.73 billion euros. "The Russian invasion of Ukraine in particular affected us and the entire industry in 2022. In this challenging
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OneThird, an AI-based food tech company that combats the annual waste of one-third of all food produced, announced the deployment of its AI-powered scanning technology in Bakker Barendrecht's supply chain. The company, which is part of Greenyard, is
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Italian fruit and vegetable exports have recovered strongly in the first quarter of 2023: compared to 2022, volumes have increased by 6.5 % and values by 10.7 %. Vegetables and pulses (+20.8 %) and citrus fruits (+15.6 %) are particularly noteworthy, fresh fruit also recorded
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Consumers want to eat locally grown blueberries. Sekoya's varieties can revitalise local production and bridge the gap to out-of-season supply, says Hans Liekens, value chain and retail manager at Sekoya. read more

A recent study by the GVM Gesellschaft für Verpackungsmarktforschung and the ifeu-Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung Heidelberg gGmbH on behalf of eight industry associations shows that the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the German packaging volume will increase by 94 % by 2045.
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The European Parliament adopted by a large majority (447 votes in favour, 142 against and 31 abstentions) the report presented by Marlene Mortler (EPP, DE) on "Food security and the long-term resilience of European agriculture". In
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Fyffes is aware of its responsibility to continuously improve social and labour standards and to promote sustainable labour practices. The entire team around Genivaldo Pereira, General Manager Melon Operations, is all the more pleased that the transformation of the
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The development of new biological solutions that provide growers with an effective means of pest control, especially in citrus and persimmon, is one of the goals that the Anecoop cooperative group has set itself in close collaboration with Koppert, a leading company in
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With a consumption of over 30 kg per person in the marketing year 2021/22, tomatoes are the Germans' favourite vegetable. They also include processed products such as ketchup. At 101,800 t, the harvest volume of domestic tomatoes decreased slightly. This is a continuation of the trend since 2019. The
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Biobest's Trap-Eye™ sticky trap monitoring system, unveiled at GreenTech Amsterdam 2023, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to provide automated, accurate, fast and affordable IPM scouting, has won the Innovation Award, according to the
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The Spanish supply of sugar melons, i.e. Galia, Cantaloupe and honeydew melons, from early cultivation is high this season. Due to a lack of demand in Germany caused by the weather, the quantities piled up on the market and pushed the prices down. For weeks, sales have been
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On the occasion of the draft of a third law for the amendment of toll regulations passed by the Federal Cabinet, which among other things is associated with an approximate doubling of the HGV toll as of 1 December 2023, BGL Board Spokesman Prof. Dr. Dirk Engelhardt explains: "With the
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Although the average per capita consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables declined by 10% in 2022, Greenyard's like-for-like sales increased by 7.9% year-on-year to €4.638bn, despite the current unfavourable economic and macro-political
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In the 2022/23 season, grape exports increased by 10.18% to 71.4 million cartons compared to the previous season. This also represents an increase of 24% compared to the 2020/21 campaign, when 57.3 million cartons were shipped, reports agraria.pe with reference to Provid. read more

For the control of downy mildew on fresh herbs in greenhouses on sealed surfaces, the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has granted an emergency authorisation for the plant protection product Fonganil Gold (active ingredient: Metalaxyl-M). read more

According to Fedefruta President Jorge Valenzuela, the frosts have not only hit larger areas, but have also lasted longer. "The frosts have not only hit the central and southern areas this time. We have reports of very hard frosts for the production
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BayWa Global Produce subsidiary T&G Global is expanding its existing portfolio of premium Envy™ and JAZZ™ apples to include the new Joli™ brand variety. After ten years of development, a pilot project has now been launched in New Zealand with the first commercial plantings. From 2028
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On 12 May 2003, an unusual success story began in Venlo: Sormac was founded. What started with 16 employees and an initial turnover of around two million euros quickly developed into a worldwide triumph of highly specialised machine solutions for
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According to the National Working Committee for Almonds, Spanish production of almond kernels will reach 120,633 tonnes for the season, following a record decline last season due to poor weather conditions in the growing areas. This estimate
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