The potato crop is proving to be increasingly strategic for Apofruit, with a growth in liquidations and cultivated areas also in 2023. Taking stock of the situation is Massimiliano Laghi, technical and quality manager, who explains: "Despite the difficulties
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The apple season 2022/23 in Ukraine was perhaps one of the most difficult in the past decade. “Problems with usage and rising costs of plant protection products, fertilizers, and other inputs, lack of labor force, relatively low prices of apples for processing, no growth in fresh apple prices
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ALDI, part of the ALDI SÜD Group, a leading multinational in the large-scale retail trade, today, Thursday 3 August, opens its second shop in Parma, Via Cicerone 3/A. read more

Studying the future of agri-food production, offering support for the ecological transition and putting innovation 'in the field', literally: with these objectives, Sanatecht returns to the halls of BolognaFiere from 7 to 9 September for the third edition of a three-day event dedicated
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Proagrica has released an independent commissioned white paper titled ‘Digital Integration. A Fundamentally Powerful Next Step to Agriculture Supply Chain Optimization’, outlining the impact that global trends and challenges have had on the rapidly evolving agricultural landscape. read more

DP World, the Emirati global logistics group, has welcomed five new customers at its latest facility at London Gateway in the first 100 days of operation, following surging demand for warehousing space near the English capital. read more

Nearly three-quarters of consumers want to live more sustainably, according to a new report commissioned by Alibaba Group, but inconvenience and high costs were seen by shoppers as the biggest barriers. read more

DP World, the Emirati multinational logistics company, has teamed up with the Port of London Authority (PLA) to hold this year’s British Ports Association (BPA) annual conference at the Leonardo Royal Hotel London Tower Bridge on 17-19 October. read more

The next SNFL Fresh Global Summit, titled Beyond Innovation, will be held on 16 th and 17th August at the SNFL Innovation Centre in Murcia, Spain. The event continues to promote the sector so that it can grow together with an eye on the future. read more

Hort Innovation has unveiled Hort Innovation Strategy 2024-2026 a new strategic plan for the next three years shaped by priories such as high industry growth, an appetite for expanded trade and increasing sustainability. read more

Good news from Selenella - Consorzio Patata Italiana di Qualità (Italian Quality Potato Consortium), which approves the 2022 balance sheet with positive figures despite the difficulties experienced by the sector over the past year. An important figure that reveals the health of a structured and well-organised supply chain, both in
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One of the most significant problems along the fruit and vegetable supply chain concerns the ability to monitor in real time the quality development of products that have to reach the consumer. There are many steps from the field to the table, and a lack of timely and
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The Cabina di regia on the PNRR, which met on Thursday afternoon at Palazzo Chigi, approved the proposals of the Minister of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forestry, Francesco Lollobrigida, to respond to project applications that could not be financed due to a
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The Cold Chain Federation is warning that UK food retailers, hospitality businesses and consumers should expect significant disruption in the Christmas trading window because food-producing businesses in Europe that supply into the UK are “unaware of, and unprepared for, the post-Brexit
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Banca Agricola Popolare di Ragusa will manage, as an authorised credit institution, 12 million euro of investments from the Ministry of Agriculture of Food Sovereignty and Forestry, as well as subsidies amounting to approximately 7.5 million euro, destined for companies belonging to the
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With ten technically improved models of pallet trucks, pallet stackers and twin stackers, Linde Material Handling (MH) customers can now make loading and unloading processes even more productive. In all model variants, the support platform is
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This year marks the 20th anniversary of the launch of AgroFresh’s flagship ripening management solution SmartFresh, the original 1-MCP technology that puts the ripening process of fruit “on hold” to delay softening and over-ripening. read more

A year and a half after the end of the eruption of the volcano on La Palma, we take stock of the evolution of the sector in terms of production, but also of the expectations for the future and the recovery of the island's production capacity. The sector closed 2022 with 62,638 tonnes.
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Ibérica de Patatas, one of the main consumer potato marketing companies in Spain, is once again bringing new potatoes from the Madrid region to large-scale retail, a product of great quality and freshness, as it is harvested and available on the shelves the very next day. The
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Zespri has launched a new range of packagingstudied to be in line with the sustainability goals the brand wants to achieve globally by 2025. The growth of the kiwi Zespri SunGold Zespri Sungold read more