On April 18, two Dutch fruit and vegetable companies were declared bankrupt. Rodenburg Fresh Food of Rotterdam specialized in exporting the total fruit and vegetable package. Mr. M.K. de Bruijn was appointed curator. read more

More than 1m teus per year have shifted away from US West Coast ports, with Gulf of Mexico ports being the big winners, according to a report by Descartes Systems Group. read more

The Indian mango production is still quite high this season, despite the unseasonal rains in February, Kaushal Khakhar, CEO of Indian fresh produce exporter Kay Bee Exports, states. “As expected, the mango season started very strongly with large volume available and very good fruit quality.
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The armed conflict that erupted in Sudan on April 14 has brought agricultural exports to a standstill. read more

Carrier Transicold’s Global Container Refrigeration factory in Singapore, a key manufacturing site for Carrier’s refrigerated container systems globally, is embracing Industry 5.0, which refers to people working alongside robots and smart machines to deliver more customized, sustainable and
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This year’s first male flight of California red scale is noticeably later than in prior years, according to Sandipa Gautam, area citrus integrated pest management advisor for University of California Cooperative Extension. read more

Last year, the Peruvian grower Complejo Agroindustrial Beta started a European sales office on the Dutch market, called Beta Best Produce. The company has a cultivation area of ​​5,500 hectares of blueberries, grapes, asparagus, avocados, citrus and pomegranates and is among the largest
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According to sources in the sector, Solum Partners, a US fund financed by Harvard University, has reached an agreement to acquire Greentastic, a large Spanish agriculture group, from Magnum Industrial Capital Partners, in an operation that would range between 250 and 300 million euro. read more

Thanks to warmer spring temperatures, supplies of blackberries from Mexico will start increasing next month. “It’s been a fairly cool spring until now but we’re feeling like those temperatures will mean we have more fruit available,” says Gerardo López of Produce Lovers. “We’re
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With the strawberry season coming to an end, producers have reported a difficult situation marked by large losses of volume, and a considerable increase in production costs, a situation due mainly to poor weather conditions, according to professional sources. read more

At the Ruff-Häring family of gardeners in the heart of Nuremberg's garlic country, this year's radish and red radish harvest has been in full swing for several weeks. "The greenhouse radish is now replaced by the first foil house goods. We started the radish harvest with a slight delay, but
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“We are currently in a trial period. Perhaps other farms will convert to an organic production in the coming years,” explains Ralph Renciot, manager of the Bioban farm of the Lareinty group, which holds 10% of the banana production of Martinique. Pioneer of organic farming on the island
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Pear supplies out of the Pacific Northwest are slowing down as growers and shippers head into the summer fruit season. At Sage Fruit, Kaci Komstadius says it still has steady supplies of Red and Green D’Anjous to get through the spring and summer months. While the pear harvest finished in
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Importers and distributors of avocado’s in Europe need not worry about carrying the costs of rejected and damaged products anymore, Procesavo will collect and pay you for them instead. read more

Political tensions between the US and China are contributing to lower container shipments between the world’s two largest economies, on top of an already-underway reshaping of global trade, according to a major shipping industry boss. read more

The Morocco-Tunisian group RioFresh announced, through a statement by its CEO Fatma Zramdini, the development of a new agricultural production activity in Montenegro, in order to strengthen the group's operations in North Africa and to open new channels to reach clients in Europe and the United
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Berno AG in Riet near Kerzers, Switzerland has recently introduced the Frutico ERP software. "For me as the managing director, it is very good to have an overview of everything at all times thanks to Frutico. We can see where something is lost, we can see lack of capacity utilization, we have
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The marketing of Lamb Hass avocados, grown in the Region of Valencia, has just started for Grupo Alcoaxarquia, which is carrying out this out through its new subsidiary Alcoaxarquia Levante, in the Valencian municipality of Sollana. They argue that now is when the avocados are at their most
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A Welsh council has spent £6,000 on a commemorative sculpture to mark the start of the scenic Wales Coastal Path walk. It was intended to resemble an enormous, glittery pebble, welcoming hikers to the Welsh coastal path. read more

We see them every time we purchase fresh fruits and vegetables: price look up (PLU) labels. The little coin-size stickers are stuck to everything from apples, bananas, and cantaloupes to watermelons, yams, and zucchini. read more