Summer fruits -such as watermelon- are starting to take center stage as temperatures rise. The market is currently facing low product availability, which, together with high production costs, has triggered sales prices. read more

Norwegian police officials have made the largest-ever cocaine seizure in the nation when they discovered 800 kilograms of the drug in boxes of fruit in Oslo. According to Norwegian news agency NTB, the drugs were found this week following a tipoff from German police. Police didn’t disclose the
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For Dutch onions, the 2022-2023 export season will undoubtedly be remembered as a historic one, says the Holland Onion Association. It will not reach a record, volume-wise, but in terms of value, Dutch onion export sales could well, for the first time ever, top €500 million. read more

Strawberry supplies are really right at the moment. read more

Organic potatoes are having a tough time. How to give that some perspective, though? Jan-Eric Geersing of Geersing Potato Specialist highlights the various possibilities, with their main variety, the phytophthora-resistant Cammeo, as a solution. read more

Announced a few months ago, the packaging activity of Pouliquen's organic traditional shallots was officially launched at the beginning of March.   read more

Protests and demonstrations against the pension reform proposed by President Emmanuel Macron, which provides for an increase in the retirement age from 62 to 64 years, are still rampant in France. The French are experiencing difficult weeks, with major disturbances, clashes and violence in
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The international avocado industry has converged on Auckland, New Zealand for the 10th World Avocado Congress. read more

The rumour that Denny Mushrooms, South Africa’s largest mushroom producer, is closing its doors, is not true. The mushroom grower, South Africa’s largest with farms in various provinces, is still supplying retail but it has reportedly decided not to rebuild its facility in KwaZulu-Natal
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After more than 40 years in business, Patricia and Roland Gugger have decided to hand over their wholesale vegetable business called Gugger-Guillod SA. Eight vegetable producers from the region are jointly taking over the management of the Sugiez-based company. These are Adam Gemüse from
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Regionality seems to be gaining importance again - after all, it is considered a marker for a reliable supply of seasonally available products. Fittingly, the fruit salad producer mirontell launched its latest regional fruit salad mix "Werderfrüchtchen" in cooperation with Werder Frucht on
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Several hundred farmers in the rural areas of Kalimpong district of West Bengal need to protect their crops from peacocks. In several parts of Kalimpong, where rice, chilies, vegetables, millet, flowers and fruits grow in abundance, peacocks - the national bird - have come to be a headache for
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Sterling has gained 2.3pc against the dollar this year, ahead of all others in the so-called G10 group of major economies. This means that the pound has surged to become the best performing currency among developed economies this year. The Bank of England is expected to carry on raising interest
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The vegetable campaign is in full swing, productions are regular and demand is peaking. Yet not everything is going as it should be, as the segment has to deal with problems that used to be unimaginable up until a few years ago. FreshPlaza has talked about it with Vittorio Gona from Alba Bio. read more

This month FreshPlaza will focus on all things South African. read more

"The late spring is strongly fueling Brussels sprout demand. It even snowed in Scandinavia. That always benefits sales,"  says Dutch company Fresh2You's Menno Molenaar.  read more

Patatas Meléndez, a Spanish company from Valladolid with a turnover of 110 million Euro in 2022, has just written a new page in the history of the fresh potato sector with the inauguration of its new automated factory, in which it has invested more than 36 million Euro, and whose advances are
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“The last stretch of this citrus fruit campaign, which has been affected by various problems (fewer volumes, weather anomalies, drop in consumption) will be characterized by considerable prices due to the reduced availability of fruit. The pigmented variety campaign ended with demand exceeding
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Blueberry supplies out of Mexico are very tight currently. “In December and January, the market was really low so a lot of the people who grow them got discouraged and didn’t want to invest the money in their crop and they pruned their fields,” says Fernando M Garcia of Berry Sunny
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In April FreshPlaza will be focussing on organics. Are you involved in the organic sector? We would love to hear from you. read more