The Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food (Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung, BLE), as the enforcement authority of the ban on unfair trade practices, conducted a total of six proceedings in 2022. In over 50 cases, the BLE assisted companies within the agricultural and food supply chain in enforcing the
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The Danish Maersk Group has announced the launch of the new Captain Peter Integrated package. This enables data integration with an application programming interface (API). According to Maersk, this allows customers to integrate the raw data log with the temperature values into their
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The Compostable Products Association (Verbund kompostierbare Produkte e.V.) regrets the decision of the Federal Council to pass the Disposable Plastics Fund Act (EWKFondsG) without exempting fruit and vegetable bags (shirt bags) made of certified compostable material from the levy. read more

Price increases in the wake of inflation are noticeable everywhere. Accordingly, many Germans are adjusting their spending behaviour, and not least when it comes to food: Almost 80 % of Germans have consciously changed their shopping behaviour with regard to food. This is shown by a
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Due to a massive reduction in stocks, German apple stocks are now at last year's level. Understandably, producers are pushing for higher prices to compensate for rising costs. Is a turnaround possible? read more

Flooding in the eastern states in late 2022 and two major hail events in the Goulburn Valley will impact this year's apple and pear crop in the domestic market, according to APAL's announcement. read more

Anecoop presented its accounts for the 2021/22 campaign to more than 250 people at its general meeting in Valencia in week 11. According to the report, turnover reached 823.6 million euros, 4.2% more than in the 2020/21 financial year, while the consolidated turnover of all the companies in the group was
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In Chile, devastating fires repeatedly occur in the individual regions, claiming human lives and destroying large areas of forest and agricultural land. In the Ñuble region, which was particularly hard hit recently, 466 fires were recorded (as of 14 March), destroying 52,120.11 ha. read more

At the end of February, the first production farms in the Lower Rhine region and near Cologne began harvesting the fruit vegetables in protected cultivation. The first tender stalks of the variety
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Chicory is usually a predictable product that is hardly subject to price fluctuations. This year, however, there has been a striking development. For months now, wholesale prices have been going up and down. read more

For family reasons, Caroline Wilkens, Member of the Management Board of Edeka Südwest, will take a shorter term in the future and therefore leave the company at the end of this month after more than 30 years of service for the Edeka Group, according to a statement. read more

The cooperation between the Bundesverband Güterkraftverkehr Logistik und Entsorgung (BGL) e.V. (Federal Association of Road Haulage, Logistics and Waste Disposal) and the FreightTech company TIMOCOM, which always has the interests of small and medium-sized road haulage companies in mind, is being expanded to include the chapter Real Time Transport Visibility. The
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Sales of early table potatoes from imports tend to decrease in Germany during the first half of each year. In the first quarter, origins such as Israel or Egypt have virtually no market significance any more. From April onwards, they are used in the asparagus potato niche,
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The German Horticultural Association (Zentralverband Gartenbau e.V. - ZVG) welcomes the National Water Strategy adopted by the Federal Cabinet as an important basis for the further necessary dialogue with all relevant land users. read more

At the same time as the meteorological start of spring, the harvest of the first spring onions is currently underway in the Palatinate. Since the beginning of March - and thus about a week earlier than the average of previous years - according to Gemüsegarten Pfalz, in the largest outdoor cultivation area for fresh vegetables in
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21,609,113 kg were exported in the first two months of 2023. This is an increase of 44.3 % compared to the 14,974,810 kg of the same period last year, reports agraria.pe with reference to the president of the consultancy Inform@cción, Fernando Cillóniz Benavides. read more

In addition to dairy farming, greenhouse farming is also mainly responsible for agricultural greenhouse gas emissions in Dutch agriculture. This has now been pointed out by the CBS (National Statistics Institute). It praised the fact that domestic agriculture has
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Green advertising claims on food have considerable greenwashing potential. This is the conclusion of a study by the research agency "Zühlsdorf + Partner" and the University of Göttingen commissioned by the vzbv's food clarity project. According to the study, sustainability
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How to increase the sustainability of food supply while minimising losses of fresh food along the supply chain is the topic of the research project "Fresh Food Data Management by Farm2Fork in the Edge" (FRED). It is funded by the Federal Ministry for
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Although many parents see their children's future threatened by the climate crisis, only a quarter (25 %) attach high importance to sustainable nutrition. This is the result of a recent survey for Westphalia-Lippe conducted by the IGES Institute on behalf of the AOK.
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