Syngenta Vegetable Seeds has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Feltrin Sementes, a Brazilian vegetable seed company serving smallholder growers and home gardeners in over 40 countries. read more

SanLucar has introduced papayas grown in the Canary Islands to its expanding range of fresh produce. Consumers in Germany and Austria can now buy tree-ripened Sweet Sense papayas, characterised by their natural sweetness, juicy and firm orange flesh and distinctive aromatic flavour,
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A series of pumpkin, courgette and winter squash variety trials will be held this summer, the Outdoor Cucurbit Growers Group (OCGG) has confirmed.  read more

The Australian table grape season has concluded on a positive note with domestic and export sales for 2023 making a marked recovery on the previous two years. read more

Leading Australian fresh produce company Costa Group has received a buyout proposal from private equity firm Paine Schwartz Partners (PSP). read more

Training fruit pickers using virtual reality equipment, employing robots to move fruit containers and wearing exoskeletons to support physical labour are all possibilities being considered by Australian berry growers as part of new research trying to boost labour efficiency. read more

The UK’s leading citrus brand Jaffa has become the ’official fruit partner’ of professional rugby union club the Leicester Tigers from the 2023 onwards. read more

Aurea Imaging, a Netherlands-based crop intelligence provider for fruit growers, last week (29 June) announced the launch of TMS TreeScout – the world’s first fully integrated tractor-mounted sensor (TMS) for precision orchard management. read more

The UK’s leading citrus brand Jaffa has become the ’official fruit partner’ of professional rugby union club the Leicester Tigers from the 2023 onwards. read more

Lineage Logistics has teamed up with a group of waste prevention non-profits, food companies, public institutions and other logistics providers to launch a hackathon to help tackle food waste and reduce the environmental footprint of the food supply chain in Europe. read more

The International Bremia Evaluation Board for the EU (IBEB-EU) has announced three new Bremia races, Bl:38EU, Bl:39EU, and Bl:40EU, and said that tests by Enza Zaden have found a significant portion of its lettuce portfolio showed high or intermediate resistance to these races. read more

Small and medium-sized farming businesses will soon be able to apply for a share of £5 million in grant funding to scale up innovation in the agriculture sector to increase sustainable food production, drive progress to net zero, improve farm resilience and support nature recovery. read more

Freshippo’s expansion across China has continued with 12 new stores opened across China while its budget brand, Freshippo Outlets, has added five stores. read more

Warwickshire-based electrical weed control (eWeeding) pioneer RootWave is set to launch its first commercial eWeeder for the horticulture sector via private investment complemented by crowdfunding. read more

The arrival of the Picota season is one of the highlights of the annual fresh produce calendar in the UK, the biggest market for the famous hand-picked stalkless cherry from Spain’s Jerte Valley. read more

Eden Research plc, a company focused on sustainable biopesticides, today (3 July) announced that it has applied for the authorisation of Ecovelex – a treatment that will protect seeds from being eaten or damaged by birds – in the UK. read more

Professor Alexandra Johnstone, a leading nutrition researcher from Scotland’s Rowett Institute, has warned of the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on the obesity epidemic, reports The Press & Journal. read more

Aldi is renaming its Super 6 fruit and vegetable promotion as Super 7, with a proportion of profits from the seventh item in the range being donated to its charity partner, Teenage Cancer Trust. read more

Israeli agritech company BiomicAgritech was nominated for this year’s GreenTech Concept Award for its unique top-down growing method for trellised greenhouse vegetables. read more

Tesco has slashed the price of more than 500 household essentials to help customers lower the price of their weekly shop. read more