Lower European and pear stocks and a good quality crop augur well for the start of the new Argentine topfruit campaign. The South American country will be looking to recover some of it lost market share after seeing a significant drop in exports to key European markets last year. read more

The price of fresh produce is being locked in and reduced by governments and retailers across Asia ahead of Lunar New Year in response to cost of living pressures.  read more

Murray River Seed Co (MRSC) has officially announced a new strategic partnership that will see E.E. Muir & Sons become a shareholder. read more

On January 20, 2024, a cargo ship full of Chilean cherries in cold storage arrived at Shanghai Pudong International Containers Dock after a journey of over 20,000 miles on the sea, bringing to Chinese consumers cherries, a fruit that represents good luck. read more

Zespri has announced that its CEO Dan Mathieson is to leave the kiwifruit leader and take up a new position as president of the Americas for global berry company Driscoll’s. read more

Food-waste-fighting brand Earth & Wheat has revealed that sales of its Christmas Feast Rescued Box grew by a whopping 124 per cent year on year. read more

AI agritech company Neolithics has announced the launch of Neolithics Light, an automated, portable produce inspection system. read more

One of Spain’s leading soft fruit companies is making a play for the autumn blueberry window to offer European customers a fresher and more sustainable alternative to berries imported from the Southern Hemisphere. read more

Kent fruit grower Bardsley England is in the process of being wound down by parent company Camellia Plc after suffering “unsustainable losses”. read more

According to the forecast, the country's banana exports will fall by around 3% to 2.206 million tonnes. This would make the country the third largest banana exporter in the world, falling behind Guatemala, which will record higher exports of 2.45 million tonnes in 2023. Ecuador also remained the
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M&S is the latest retailer to announce a round of price cuts on grocery lines. read more

British Berry Growers chairman Nick Marston has described The Groceries Supply Code of Practice (GSCOP) as “not fit for purpose” ahead of a debate in Parliament this afternoon (22 January) to determine its future. read more

When writing about logistics problems and their potential resolution, the metaphor that writers usually reach for is the light at the end of the tunnel. But if fruit exporters in the Western Cape do currently see any such thing during these dark days for South African ports – by no means
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UK discounters Aldi and Lidl have once again outperformed the ‘traditional big four’ supermarkets in getting behind British apples this season. read more

It’s been more than seven years since Yello, a new yellow-skinned apple bred in Japan and grown in the Südtirol region of Italy, was officially unveiled at Interpoma in Bolzano. Since that initial launch, the variety has apparently built up a committed customer base as its production volumes
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Alongside other products, fresh fruit and vegetables naturally play an important role in these results. Important markets now include Saudi Arabia, to which over 66,000 tonnes of apples were exported, India, where 51,000 tonnes of apples from Italy ended up, and the Arab
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According to the Port of Antwerp-Bruges, this is an important step towards the digitalisation of container handling and transport. The next step will follow soon; in the coming weeks, other users will also gradually switch to CPu. By the end of January, the
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In 2023, the newly launched microwave potatoes were an important milestone for the company. The company is now testing how far the elimination of plastic could go: "The bag already only contains a minimal amount of plastic anyway. We are currently testing whether we can
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Mexico’s papaya production has almost doubled in the past decade. According to figures from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, production grew 48.3 per cent, from 765,000 tonnes in 2013 to 1.135m tonnes in 2023 as a result of increased acreage and higher productivity. read more

Collaboration between different sector organisations is increasingly important to achieving shared targets for the timber industry, according to John Dye, president of the UK’s Timber Packaging and Pallet Confederation (Timcon). read more