Yuca or cassava supplies out of Costa Rica are seeing some challenges currently. Costa Rica is a year-round producer of the root vegetable and the crop takes approximately nine months to mature. “There’s an oxidization in this crop in the root and experts here say it’s due to a
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Just in time for Mother's Day and the barbecue season, SPAR is putting Styrian asparagus in the spotlight together with the "young WILD ("jungen WILDEN") vegetable farmers". The cooperation with the innovative farmers' group from southeastern Styria is now entering its fifth year. May is
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It’s very unclear what kind of damage the frosts have caused to the Polish blueberries, says Sandra Stefaniak-Syguła, co-owner of Polish berry trader Berrytrade: “It’s challenging for us to predict what kind of damages these frosts will cause, because we are not growers ourselves. And you
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According to Tim Boring, director of Michigan Asparagus Advisory Board, Michigan is the largest asparagus grower in the nation. Jamie Clover Adams, executive director of the same organization, stated: “When you are out shopping for asparagus, be sure to look for the ‘Product of Michigan’
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Ireland is renowned as the land of potatoes, and nowadays also, a great part of the sweet potatoes eaten in Europe have Irish roots. From their greenhouse and propagation laboratory, Beotanics creates plant material that is used in their own sweet potato propagation company in Portugal. “By
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The stone fruit harvest is gaining momentum in Murcia, where significant volumes are already expected next week. The fruit is arriving with very good quality and high sugar levels as a result of the lack of rainfall in recent months and the high temperatures, which are forcing producers in
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Dr. Gunnar Schellenberger, president of the Saxony-Anhalt Landtag, has now seen for himself what sustainable production controlled by high-tech can achieve in one of the largest greenhouse facilities in Europe. He had followed an invitation from the Wimex Group, a company that produces
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At a press conference last week, the presidents of SAB-Almendrave from Spain and the Centro Nacional de Competências dos Frutos Secos (CNCFS) unveiled a collaboration - an EU-funded project to promote more almond production from Europe, with a focus on the Iberian Peninsula. read more

The sowing campaign, which started on February 20 with the planting of the short-cycle varieties, has reached its final stretch in the later areas of Leon, Burgos, and Segovia. These varieties especially aimed at the bagging sector, with some plantings concentrated in Valladolid and part of
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Characterized by a bright red flesh and a dark green - almost black -rind, Dolce Passione watermelons are now part of a consortium. Consorzio Dolce Passione was in fact presented at Macfrut - a fully Italian project that is the result of over 7 years of research that have brought to the
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Plants provide almost every calorie of food we eat. Grains like rice, wheat and corn make civilisation possible. For millennia, farmers have bred grains, fruit and vegetable varieties to get larger harvests and plants better able to tolerate different climates. read more

The wind gusts of more than 70 km/h caused by Cold Front #52 at the end of April toppled a considerable part of the Manila mango production, scheduled for 2023, in the municipalities of Actopan and Puente Nacional, stated Guillermo Palmeros Marin, the president of Veracruz's Mango Producers
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On 16 May the first cold storage in the Matola Cargo Terminal, an investment by The TLG Group, will be opened, coming right on time for the new citrus season, as planned. read more

The Prognosfruit Conference is Europe’s annual event for the apple and pear sector, gathering growers from across Europe and beyond. Following last year’s successful return as an in-person event, Prognosfruit 2023 will take place in Trentino, Italy, from the 2nd to the 4th of August 2023. read more

On Monday, the Indian federal government imposed a ban on the import of apples where the CIF (Cost, Insurance, and Freight) import price is less than or equal to Rs 50 per kilogram. This move that may hit shipments of the fruit from Iran, UAE, Afghanistan. read more

While it’s a slower start for watermelons in Mexico due to the cool weather, supplies are increasing steadily. “We’re about 10 days behind but it’s steady and there’s great size and great quality,” says Dennis Peterson of Riverbend Fresh LLC. “On the earlier melons with the cooler
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The melon and watermelon campaign is about to start at O.P. Agricola Campidanese, i.e. the Sardinian organization that commercializes its produce under the L'Orto di Eleonora brand. FreshPlaza has talked about it with director Salvatore Lotta. read more

In two to three weeks, the season for Peruvian air-shipped mangoes of the Kent variety should be coming to an end, says Yannick Hoffmann, managing director of Fruchtimport Hoffmann GmbH at the wholesale market in Hanover. He started selling them in November. "There were slight problems in the
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This year's Belgian pear season has exceeded all expectations. "We had high hopes last season because of the small harvest, but things went wrong because of the Ukraine situation. There were significantly more pears in Europe this season, but as summer approaches, prices remain excellent. Even
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Belgium: Colruyt Ledeberg reopens on 10 May read more