Bananas are still among the most popular fruits worldwide. As Ursula Schockemöhle, product manager in the horticulture division of Agrarmarkt Informations-Gesellschaft stated, the banana in 2022 in Germany was even able to hold its own against the previous leader: "Basically, the boom in demand
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Wholesale prices for inshell walnuts in Moldova started decreasing at the beginning of February. Based upon data by the EastFruit monitoring, they fell in price by an average of 7% – up to 28 MDL/kg ($1.48/kg) by the beginning of the second week of the month. This is the level of the average
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The Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Ministry has warned Malaysian traders to comply with the Price Control and Anti-Profiteering Act 2011 (PCAPA). A spokesperson for the Profiteering Control Unit and Industry Compliance Division commented on a statement by the Consumers Association of Penang
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Bank of England policymaker Catherine Mann has issued her opinions on the Brexit debate, blaming UK’s departure from the European Union for adding to inflation. Mann is a US economist who sits on the rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee. She said there were signs that the cost-of-living
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Sealand Europe, a subsidiary of Maersk, is pleased to announce a multi-year agreement with Magrabi Agriculture to provide the fresh produce company with complex Cold Chain Management as part of an integrated end-to-end supply chain solution. Magrabi Agriculture is one of Egypt’s largest fruit
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Selling prices for onions in Ukraine set another record last week, breaking the mark of 30 UAH/kg ($0.82/kg), EastFruit project analysts report. Undoubtedly, the increase in the segment will continue, as there is a rush demand for onions, and many Ukrainian farms have almost run out of stocks. read more

The pace at which producers are requesting protection for berry varieties, and the number of entities applying for these rights, are an indicator of the interest in genetics as an engine of the sector and the volume of investment that is made in this area. read more

A shipment of a hybrid variety of sugar apples grown by Taitung farmers is to be shipped to Brunei today, as local growers eye new markets following a Chinese import suspension, the Taitung County Agriculture Department said yesterday. The shipment of the locally grown fruit would be delivered
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BDA/Dorot Farm, an exporter of fresh and sweet carrots from Israel, is launching a new line of product for the new season at the Fruit Logistica in Berlin on February 8, 2023. read more

The Philippines are the second largest papaya exporter in ASEAN after Malaysia, but it might lose its papaya exports market to Malaysia if the country fails to join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which will abolish the 24 percent tariff on the exports of this tropical fruit. read more

This February, there has been a reduction in the vegetables prices in the Chennai market. The reason for the downtrend in the veggie prices now is due to the adequate supply from the neighboring states and from Tamil Nadu as crop cultivation began after NE monsoon. From the last week onwards,
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Portugal is preparing to set up a logistical hub for importing fresh fruit from Brazil, showing producers “geographical and operational conditions” to replace ports in northern Europe. The Port of Sines will create a logistical hub for the entry of Brazilian fruits into the Iberian and
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Mango growers in Malda district are expecting a bumper yield later this year as the trees have started flowering about two weeks in advance with colder days prevailing in the region for a shorter period this winter. According to experts, if the weather remains favorable for the next two months,
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Direct importer of fresh fruit and vegetables Port International and the Hungarian cucumber producer Zeiler Hungária are linked by a long-standing partnership. What makes the production facility so special and distinguishes the cooperation is discussed by the two managing directors, André
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After a remarkable fundraising of 1.4 million euros [1.5 million USD] in 2019, Mycophyto has recently closed a new round of financing of 4.155 million euros [4.5 million USD]. Founded in 2017 by Christine Poncet and Justine Lipuma, the startup company develops natural biological solutions
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A tropical adventure with flavor, that's what the pepper brand Tatayoyo is all about. Rijk Zwaan is very proud that this snack pepper has been nominated for the Fruit Logistica Innovation Award 2023. They asked their chain partners and colleagues: What makes Tatayoyo so unique? And how is this
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Things do not seem to be going right in the Dutch onion market, and last week, growers were getting €0.70. "Everyone thought things would change after the Berlin trade fair," says Jan Franje of Franje Onions. "But sales have been all over the place since early Monday morning. The news about
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Mohamed Al-Zayat, the Official Spokesperson for Libya’s Food and Drug Control Centre (FDCC), has stated that onions unfit for human consumption had entered Libya from Egypt. According to Al-Zayat, the FDCC had organized a campaign, launched in the past few days, targeting the largest vegetable
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Agtonomy, an ag tech software company with a focus on developing climate-smart solutions for specialty crop farmers, announces its new TeleFarmer™ Solution. TeleFarmer empowers farmers to remotely execute labor-intensive field tasks such as weeding, spraying, mowing and transporting. The
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UK: Tesco boss Jason Tarry could replace Potts as Morrisons CEO read more