A potato mission in Kendrapara, India has let farmers down due to low prices. A lack of storage facilities has forced farmers to sell their harvest  for next to nothing.  read more

Ecuador’s banana sector started the year well, with a 7.89% increase, to export 2.59 million more boxes in January 2023 (35.01 million boxes) compared to the January 2022 (32.42 million boxes). However, the dollar value and sales in key markets decreased at the same time. At the international
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"Cima di Rapa is a classic autumn and winter product. We import the cabbage mainly from Puglia," Raffaele Scirillo of Irpinia Frucht GmbH tells us. The company has been located at Fruchthof Berlin since 1993 and is focused on importing Italian food products. "Apart from that, we also offer the
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Three districts along Maharashtra’s Konkan coast are known for the Alphonso mango; the Sindhudurg, Ratnagiri and Raigad districts. Unfortunately, they have already started reporting fruit drop. Mangoes are a four-month-duration crop, from the time of flowering to harvesting of the mature
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In week 5, the three-week average wholesale prices of bananas from Latin America stood at €115/100 kgs. read more

In the wake of the tomatoes and cauliflower, the soft fruit supply is now also lagging far behind. "Supply is very low, and demand is very high," observes Maxim De Roeck of Fruitful- Berries from Venlo. "The Chilean blueberry season is mostly over. We will receive the last blueberries from Chile
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The Hexkoel cold storage facility for table grapes, in South Africa’s Hex River Valley, is continuing with business as usual with new record intakes for the season, despite national rolling electrical blackouts lasting up to eight hours per day. read more

Due to a series of difficulties in cultivation and organization, the Spanish fruit and vegetable season is far from being stable at the moment. Similarly, no consistent line can be drawn for the iceberg lettuce under the Ilfres brand and the citrus under the Juicì brand in Italy. However,
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Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque has stated that Bangladesh will export mangoes to Japan soon: “Japan is interested to import mangoes from Bangladesh. The work is in progress to fulfill Japan’s prerequisites. The both countries are working jointly in this regard.” read more

Israeli box carrier ZIM and Hai An Transport and Stevedoring Joint-stock Company (HATS) have launched Lotus Link, a new joint venture to operate domestic and regional shipping services in Vietnam. read more

British men don’t eat as many vegetables as women; this is quite well-known. A new survey now claims vegetables are snubbed by them because they feel they don’t fill them up. Nearly half of men questioned about why they don’t eat enough vegetables said it was because vegetables aren’t
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Kenya is at the start of its avocado peak season. The peak season for Hass fruits is about to commence in the first week of March, with big volumes infiltrating the market from mid-March. read more

The demand for onions from the European market is significantly increasing, and it is mainly directed to Egypt, says Fatimah Elzhraa of the Egyptian producer Al Solimania. read more

Frustratingly, Polish apple exporters still haven’t been offered a solution to the Egyptian banks stopping the financial transactions. Mohamed Marawan, owner of Polish apple exporter Sarafruit, does emphasize that it can still get sorted, but who knows when that will be. read more

Toronto-based digital innovation lab TribalScale has partnered with McCain Foods Limited, the world's largest manufacturer of frozen potato products, as part of SCALE AI's latest investment round, on its McCain Driving Impact (MDI x AI) project. The large-scale digital transformation leverages
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“When I started in 2005, as soon as Royal Gala was harvested, by week 6 or week 7, you’d start loading for the UK. Over the intervening years the UK started ordering on average ten weeks later but this year, for the first time in many years, I’m seeing that requests from the UK for
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Ethiopia earned US$413.82 million from horticulture exports in the first seven months of the current Ethiopian Fiscal Year, which started on July 8. The revenue amount was collected from the export of flowers, fruits and vegetables, Mekonen Solomon, horticulture export account coordinator at the
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Vegetable supply is not only limited in Spain and Morocco; Italy also shares in the malaise. "Especially in Sicily and Puglia, it is problematic," says Frits de Mooij of Vita Verde from Maasdijk. "Due to a storm last week, many greenhouses in Sicily were blown away and flooded with rainwater. We
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Vitropic, a CIRAD subsidiary and European laboratory of in vitro culture specialized in tropical plant propagation, has joined forces with La Compagnie Fruitière, the main fruit producer in Africa, in order to create the first industrial in vitro culture platform in West Africa. Based in
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The supply of vegetables remains limited in Europe due to the impact that low temperatures have had in Spain, the main supplier in the autumn and winter months. Although daytime temperatures have risen, the cloudy weather does not suggest that the situation will change until late spring or even
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