The president of the Provincial Council of Jaén, Francisco Reyes, and the mayor of Bedmar and Garcíez, Pablo Ruiz, visited the Colmena Verde company, which is dedicated to the marketing of fruit and organic products, including white asparagus grown in this municipality. read more

About five years ago, Davie Brooks and Jon Nickerson with Greengo Seed started working on the development of iceberg lettuce that could be harvested mechanically, suitable for both processing as well as fresh markets. Their second goal was to breed for iceberg lettuce with a high Fusarium tolerance. read more

SeaPort Manatee, which marked its 50th anniversary in 2020, has been quietly setting one record after another for cargo handled. In fiscal 2022, SeaPort Manatee handled 177,108 cargo containers, nearly as many as Port Tampa Bay, which handled 178,637. SeaPort Manatee has been steadily closing
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Yesterday, the Moroccan government adopted a decree cancelling the value-added tax on agricultural inputs, searching to help lower prices of fresh produce and other agrifoods. In the African country, food inflation jumped to 20.1% in February, bringing general inflation to 10.1%, a level
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“I think passionfruit has long been a neglected product – few farmers grow it as a top priority crop and almost no-one goes to the store to buy passionfruit. We want to change that,” says Alex de Sousa of Aril Farms, a name he’d like to be associated with high-quality passionfruit. read more

The introduction to the market of plastic products signed by Termotecnica Pericoli continues at full speed. After the success achieved with theACF21p air circulation fan, their new challenge is to launch an evaporative pad made of self-extinguishing PVC. read more

Vietnam's agricultural exports to China are facing increasing difficulties due to tightening export requirements, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD). According to Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Lê Minh Hoan China is no longer an easy market due
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Supplies of strawberries from Central Mexico are coming to the end of the season. “The industry has pushed central Mexico certainly later than what would normally be the case because of the storms in California and the California crops coming on late. Central Mexico has done really really well
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Italy is entering the final stretch of its strawberry campaign. A year that, as in other producing areas of the Mediterranean Arc, has been marked by high temperatures. This situation has not affected the productive and commercial development of Inspire, which belongs to the varietal program of
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More than 3.6 million amphetamine tablets have been confiscated by Saudi authorities in the Riyadh region. Maj. Mohammed Al-Nujaibi, spokesman for the General Directorate for Narcotics Control, said that “the security monitoring of drug smuggling and promotion networks … has resulted in the
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The Northern Hemisphere season is about to become intensive and challenging. The Oscar® Greece kiwifruit campaign ended on a positive note with strong support for targeted country marketing actions. Primland expects to finish marketing its French kiwifruit towards the end of May with excellent
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Harrison Feng is the Director at Shandong Imperial Garden Biotechnology, a large producer of shiitake logs from China. The company has a strong and growing export division. Covid-19 hampered exports for a few years, but recently the market has stabilized and activities are returning to pre-Covid
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The Frutas y Citricos de Mula cooperative brought together a wide representation of Anecoop stone-fruit-producing partners at its headquarters on Wednesday. It is an internal meeting that the second-degree cooperative holds every year to lay the strategic foundations for the current campaign.
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The number of port strikes around the world has been growing over the past year, causing headaches for many parties. The number of protests and strikes affecting port operations quadrupled last year to 38 incidents. From trucker stoppages in South Korea to dock strikes in Britain, worker
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On 6 June 2023, under the slogan “The Changing Geopolitical Landscape and the Future for Potato Trade”, the first-time ever Polish edition of the Europatat Congress will take place. It will focus on the impact of current geopolitics for international agri-food trade and on the effect of
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The wholesale prices for yellow onions of the 2022 harvest in the markets of Chisinau increased by 0.5-1 MDL/kg in the first half of this week up to an average of 15 MDL/kg ($0.83/kg). The rise in the price of onions in the Moldovan market is a normal seasonal phenomenon in April. It is
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Schedule reliability is one of the many competitive elements in this industry, and as such, the relative performance of the shipping lines provides a view of their competitive positioning. read more

"With our twenty years of experience in the sector, we design and build greenhouses for agriculture as well as photovoltaic greenhouses. We aim at being a social driving force in a territory - that of Calabria - that is not yet ready to value its land, and therefore to benefit from its huge
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Vegan caviar. This product may raise a few eyebrows, but Kuperus Foods recently added black garlic vegan caviar to its product line. And according to this Dutch company's founder Anne Kuperus, it is gaining popularity. Caviar does not have the best reputation in terms of animal friendliness. The
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March has been a very strong month for the Polish apples, says Jan Nowakowski, manager for Polish apple distributor, Genesis Fresh: “The sales of apples in March peaked compared to February and previous months. The beginning of the month was very good and this feeling continued for the whole
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