Around 18 million cartons are expected for export in 2023. That would be an increase of almost 2 million cartons or 10 % more than last year, reports South Africa correspondent Fred Meintjes. The harvest is not only bigger, but the marketing prospects are also much better than last year.
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Agriculture is not spared from rising prices for production inputs such as energy, diesel, fertiliser, fodder, but also machinery and capital goods. In the past year, these have increased by around 10 %. This corresponds to additional expenditure for farming families in the
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As BASF Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors Dr Martin Brudermüller and Chief Financial Officer Dr Hans-Ulrich Engel explained when presenting the figures for the financial year 2022, BASF increased its sales by 11.1% to €87.3 billion. Higher prices in almost all areas were the main reason for the sales growth.
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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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Above all, the prolonged summer drought, but also various problems with sales, influenced vegetable cultivation in 2022. According to the Baden-Württemberg Statistical Office, around 266,500 t of vegetables were harvested in 2022 on an outdoor area of 11,300 ha. While the
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Fruit growers are allowed to use the plant protection product Surround (active ingredient: aluminium silicate) to control the pear leaf sucker on pears with immediate effect. This is provided for in an emergency authorisation issued by the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL). read more

Greenhouses need to reduce their freshwater demand and carbon footprint. By growing microalgae in the runoff water of greenhouses, the total fresh water consumption can be reduced and the water becomes cleaner. In addition, the microalgae become valuable products
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This means that all fruit and vegetable growers in the UK are now certified to rigorous environmental standards that aim to continuously improve the whole farm in areas such as climate resilience, biodiversity, soil health, greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation, shares
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15 training courses for farmers and farm managers have just been completed throughout the state. Eleven training courses for "sprayer drivers" are currently in progress. The four regional services of the Plant Protection Service (PSD) of theLand Office for Agriculture, Food Safety and
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In 2021, one fifth of the self-sufficiency level for fruit was covered by domestic production. The share of vegetables was almost twice as high. read more

In January 2023, the sales level is only marginally one percent higher than in the same month of the previous year, which means that the segment is performing significantly below the growth of the overall market. read more

Several plant protection products containing the active ingredient zinc phosphide as bait are approved for the control of field mice, ground voles and bank voles for various crops. Depending on how they are applied and in order to ensure safe use of the also for non-target vertebrates (e.g. birds)
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The Spanish stone fruit sector was also represented at FRUIT LOGISTICA 2023. This time, the participation was significantly different from the previous one, when frosts caused a considerable drop in production. The focus this time was on the new campaign. The producers showed themselves
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In 2022, the area under cultivation for outdoor vegetables in Brandenburg was around 6,500 ha. According to the Berlin-Brandenburg Statistics Office, this was 160 ha less than in the previous year. At 90,700 t, the total harvest was 2% below the six-year average (2016 to 2021) and 11% lower than in the previous year.
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Your tasks: Commercial, technical and organisational responsibility for operations management incl. resource planning, implementation of production plans and operational processesOptimisation of financial performance through adequate resource and cost managementMaintenance and
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According to the company, this latest investment round is a testament to the start-up's success, its potential for further growth and its $1.2bn valuation. Investors include Bessemer Venture Partners, G Squared, Coatue Management, Insight Partners and others.
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In Germany, too, the supply of lettuce is currently scarce. The currently milder weather conditions in Spain cannot make up for the missing quantities of the past weeks. In the second half of the past week of week 7, the wholesale market sales prices increased.
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To better position fruit from Europe as more sustainable than imports from Asia or South America is the aim of the three campaigns GET A FRUIT, REFRESH YOUR LIFE and GREEN LIFE, which are funded by the European Union. Depending on the season, different types of fruit and
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The strongly fluctuating weather conditions in the past few weeks in both the Spanish and Italian growing regions have inhibited growth in the courgette crops. As a result, the supply volumes on the German wholesale markets were correspondingly tight. Also the now
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Not only FRUIT LOGISTICA 2023 as a whole - with a significant increase in visitor numbers and exhibitor space - left the previous year's smaller 'April intermezzo' due to the pandemic far behind. Hall 20, the tradition-steeped 'Germany Hall', was also
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