In New Zealand, the apple harvest got off to a slow start this season, but is now in full swing with the Royal Galas. The last two campaigns have been very wet and last year, right at the beginning of the harvest, growers were hit by a cyclone. This year
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Blueberry cultivation in Poland covers more than 12,000 hectares, with an annual increase in the cultivation area. The country's blueberry production reached 55,000 tonnes in 2022, with projections for 2023 of 67,500 tonnes, and represents the only segment of
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Colombia is seeing increased demand for Hass avocados, with a 25% increase in production volume forecast for the rest of the year, led by the US and Europe, with demand also increasing in Asia. Juan Camilo of Avocados Planet says: "With a record high of
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Zespri has launched an innovative packaging solution, the Fruit Pillbox, designed to promote daily fruit consumption in Singapore. This innovative packaging, inspired by a pillbox, features seven compartments for each day of the week, each of which contains a
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The new carrot campaign in Sicily has just begun, with few production volumes in truth. The greatest requests come from northern Europe and focus on organic baby carrots, with particular attention to the biodynamic, Demeter-certified carrot. But what is the
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The strait of Bab El Mandab - which in Arabic means 'gate of pain' - continues to hold its name, given the crisis context in the Red Sea. "The season would have been very satisfactory if we had not been taken by surprise by this problem," says Ibrahim Gadallah, a
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In the early hours of this Tuesday morning, a group of farmers have been involved in incidents on the A-6 motorway, near Paradores de Castrogonzalo (Zamora), which have resulted in several Guardia Civil officers being injured and arrests among the demonstrators. According to sources of the investigation
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For more than two weeks, green asparagus from Spain has been struggling to find a place on French supermarket shelves. According to several French operators who market asparagus in France, sales of Spanish green asparagus have been 'very difficult'.
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