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“We offer premium blackberries from Mexico 52 weeks per year”
2024-02-28 00:00
Blackberries are the number one item for H52, grower of different berry varieties in Mexico. The company's name stands for Harvest 52, representing a 52-week supply of berries. "During the 2023-2024 season, we will achieve year-round blackberry supply with our customers in the US and the EU,"
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Lineage expects to strengthen footprint in Germany with construction of new facility in Bremerhaven
2024-02-28 00:00
Lineage, a large provider of temperature-controlled industrial REITs and integrated solutions, announces the ongoing development of a new facility in the Fischereihafen, located in Bremerhaven, Germany. This new facility is expected to have a footprint of over 19,000 square meters – equivalent
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'The quality of our chicory has been surprisingly good so far'
2024-02-28 00:00
Reflecting on a challenging first half of the season due to below-average root yields in Switzerland, "The autumn was exceptionally wet, impacting field conditions significantly. Fortunately, we were able to harvest our roots before Christmas. Despite the moisture, the quality of both organic
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4th World Conference of the World Banana Forum
2024-02-28 00:00
Bananas are the world's most exported fresh fruit by volume (19.1 million tonnes in 2022) and have an estimated economic value of $10 billion per year, making their value chain one of the most important in the world. They are also an essential source
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Fyffes to rebrand bananas in mainland Europe
2024-02-28 00:00
Fresh produce group Fyffes has announced plans to transition its banana branding in mainland Europe from its traditional namesake to Trudi's, a new consumer brand based in Dublin. This rebranding strategy will affect the company's premium banana segment, excluding products distributed within the
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One week after the holidays, fruit prices have generally fallen due to the drop in market demand. It is worth noting the gradual increase in both the variety and volume of imported fruit, with Chilean plums and grapes as the main products.
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Price of Kent mango for export in Moro quadruples
2024-02-28 00:00
The Kent 2024 mango campaign in the Moro district of Ancash has been brought forward due to high temperatures. This phenomenon has caused a drastic reduction of 75% in the district's fields and in the entire Nepeña valley due to the lack of flowering.
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Entries open for exhibiting at Fruit Attraction 2024
2024-02-28 00:00
Fruit Attraction, a major exhibition event for the global fruit and vegetable sector, organised by Ifema Madrid and Fepex, will hold its 16th edition from 8 to 10 October 2024. Under the slogan 'Discover the essence of the sector', all companies
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Peruvian Satsuma achieves good prices in the domestic market at the beginning of the campaign
2024-02-28 00:00
Agroindustrias Casablanca, part of the La Calera group, has devoted approximately a decade to replanting more than 1,200 hectares of mandarins. This ambitious project sought to adjust planting densities to allow the complete mechanization of agricultural work, to reduce labor costs, and to
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This measure was announced during a meeting between Governor Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla and the US Ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, who was informed about the detection of 817 illegal orchards.
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North Bay Produce's Dutch sales office is entering its fourth year this year. "We now have six people working in the Netherlands and England, which we should expand further in the coming years," begins Wilco Arts. North Bay is a North American cooperative with growers in North, Central, and
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From Italy to New Zealand for the Symposium on kiwifruit
2024-02-28 00:00
A Jingold technical team attended the 11th edition International kiwifruit symposium, a global summit organized by ISHS (International Society for Horticultural Science) over the past few days (February 20-24) in Mount Maunganui, New Zealand. It was an important occasion to assess the current
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Morocco's export successes in the fruit and vegetable sector are no secret to experts in the sector. However, it is interesting to look at which markets show the most impressive dynamics in order to understand where the greatest opportunities arise.
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'New sustainable packaging for the food sector'
2024-02-28 00:00
For some time now, the topic of packaging has been stirring the food industry, and companies continue to develop increasingly 'sustainable' solutions. ASV Packaging and Hinojosa Packaging Group, for example, will be present at the CFIA trade fair in Rennes from 12 to 14 March 2024 (9-E32) to
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Consumers are increasingly aware of the importance of environmentally friendly packaging and supermarkets have decided to embrace this trend, as Adam Sikorski, sales director of the Polish packaging company SoFruPak, explains: "Looking at the
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Moldovan grape sector to benefit from FAO initiative
2024-02-28 00:00
In a significant move to bolster Moldova's table grape sector, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has earmarked a $350,000 technical assistance project under the One Country One Priority Product (OCOP) initiative. This collaboration was formalized through an
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Italy's lemon season reaches its peak, but complications persist
2024-02-28 00:00
The Limorè brand lemon campaign is in its central phase, both in the field and in the packing stations, but difficulties, as Pietro Buongiorno, president of the Consortium of Associated Lemon Producers of Rocca Imperiale, points out, are always around the corner.
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Four-month-old girl sets world record
2024-02-28 00:00
A four-month-old Indian girl named Kaivalya has broken a world record by identifying 120 different objects, including birds, vegetables and animals. Her exceptional cognitive skills earned her recognition in the Noble Book of World Records as the first four-month-old baby in the world.
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Demand shifts back to peaches in the face of nectarine oversupply
2024-02-28 00:00
In Over-Hex, near Worcester - of all the Cape regions described as climatically closest to California - almost forty different varieties of stone fruit are grown on a 215-year-old Boland farm called Oudewagendrift.
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"If the weather is good, we will start the stone fruit campaign 10 days earlier in Murcia".
2024-02-28 00:00
The 2024 stone fruit season is approaching in Murcia, where flowering is about 10 days ahead of last year's season.
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