The Moroccan watermelon season is halfway through, with harvest volumes from southern Morocco now sold out, and pending harvests from the west and north of the country. Mehdi Benchekroun, CEO of DMB & Co, reviews the first half of the season. read more

In July and August FreshPlaza will be focussing on the stone and soft fruit sectors. Are you a grower, importer or supplier of these fruits? If so we would love to hear from you. read more

Following the acquisition in 2018 of the stone fruit and apple varietal improvement program from Agro Sélections Fruits (ASF), as well as the Primor program in 2020, Frutaria Innovation is launching some new low chilling varieties that will allow it to extend the start of its production schedule. read more

Colored cauliflower can completely brighten store shelves, yet you won't easily find these eye-catching products in Dutch supermarkets. "We offer most of the purple, orange, and green locally grown cauliflowers via exporters to southern European retail," says Etienne Ruigewaard of the Dutch
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Dole Food Company is introducing a new, juicier and more aromatic and golden pineapple, in response to consumer demand for a sweeter pineapple-eating experience read more

Aurea Imaging, a crop intelligence provider for fruit growers, has announced the launch of TMS TreeScout®, the world's first fully integrated tractor-mounted sensor for precision orchard management. Powered by AI and 3D computer vision, TMS (Tractor Mounted Sensor) TreeScout helps farmers with
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Sea-Intelligence has published issue 142 of the Global Liner Performance (GLP) report, with schedule reliability figures up to and including May 2023. As the report itself is quite comprehensive and covers schedule reliability across 34 different trade lanes and 60+ carriers, this press release
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Zimbabwe's high-tech agricultural research hub Kutsaga has distributed over 3 million potato plantlets using the new tissue culture technology. The distribution is meant to ensure self-sufficiency in the national potato and horticulture micro-propagation for the Presidential Rural Horticultural
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The 2023 edition of the Annual Potato Yearbook is now available. It highlights progress on NPC’s national legislative, regulatory, and marketing priorities. The Yearbook also features updated US and global potato production and consumption stats, grower and industry contact information,
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This year, the volume of food products supplied to the Siberian Federal District has increased by 20%. Most fruits are imported from foreign countries. By the beginning of June, over 900 tons of watermelons, 320 tons of pineapples, and over 1,300 tons of sweet cherries were imported into the
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On the 28th of June, the French Council of State repealed the provision banning the marketing of organic summer vegetables grown in heated greenhouses between December 21st and April 30th, on the grounds that it legally placed French producers in a situation of competitive distortion in relation
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Belgian potato, vegetable, and fruit traders and representatives from the processing sector gathered on Tuesday, 27 June, for Fresh Trade Belgium, Belgapom, and Vegebe's annual FVPhouse event. After the general meeting, sustainable food and the agriculture and horticulture of the future were the
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It is not customary to talk about this, but Polish fruit growers, on the one hand, demand a ban raspberry imports from Ukraine, but at the same time, they do not want Ukraine to ban imports of other Polish fruits or food products. read more

It is difficult on the potato market, with sky-high prices and a shortage of good-quality produce. "Imported potatoes are very pricey, and the new crop is extremely problematic. It goes back to the summer of 2022," begins Jurgen Duthoo of Warnez Potatoes in Belgium. read more

Avocado farmers from the Gatundu North Constituency, Kiambu Country, are suffering huge losses after thieves started illegally harvesting their fruits. Reportedly, the thieves are invading the farms in the dead of the night, harvesting the fruits for sale to middlemen who buy them at throw-away
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According to the 2022 Food Consumption Report in Spain prepared by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food, Spanish households' consumption of fresh fruits fell by 12.2% over the previous year, vegetable consumption decreased by 13.4%, and potato consumption by 9.7%. Consumption also
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Last week, from June 16 to June 22, 2023, the import of quarantine products to Kyrgyzstan amounted to 17,719 tons, which is 3% higher than the week earlier. This information was published by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Kyrgyz Republic. read more

In a batch of 21 tons of apricots imported into the Sverdlovsk region, a plum fruit eater larva was discovered. Quarantine service experts reported the low quality of fresh fruit on their official website. read more

New, densely cultivated, farming methods for hazelnut and walnut trees are beginning to gain popularity in Spain, which is a country that has always been considered a point of reference in Europe when it comes to implementing innovative trends in the cultivation of fruit, citrus and olive trees.
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Yesterday, the Dutch Staay Food Group got its first shipment of grapes - the Black Magic variety - from Puglia in southern Italy. Buyer Sander Rutten visited those grape growers last week. Four growers cultivate grapes for the Staay house brand NERO Premium. They are all modern family businesses
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