The products nominated for the Innovation Award (Flia) at Fruit Logistica 2024, to be held in Berlin from 7 to 9 February, have been unveiled. Waste reduction, sustainability and new tastes the focus Lo Zucchiolo read more

The Australian Agritech provider AgPick Technology has launched a facial recognition app to protect growers from ID fraud. The new AgPick ID app uses advanced biometric technology to verify worker images and immediately identify them, so they can match to registration details in the AgPick data
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The Palmerston Highway connects the Atherton Tablelands to the south, but the road received significant damage due to flooding caused by ex-Tropical Cyclone Jasper. Now, with this major road out of the area closed, some Far North Queensland farmers fear they will have to leave fruit on trees if
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As the climate disruption in Panama and the spread of the Middle East conflict restricts the flow of trade on both the Pacific and Asia to Europe, services rates are expected to sharply increase on both routes. read more

If you want to evaluate the efficiency of a new technology, you need to see it in action. During the Orticoltura in Campo event (Guidizzolo - Italy, January 24-26, 2024), visitors will be able to experience on-site demonstrations while having the opportunity to attend several afternoon
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In Belgium, a self-driving logistics robot called Automaatje recently started running between the Tomeco sorting and the Coöperatie Hoogstraten warehouse. It is a fully autonomous vehicle developed by AVT Europe for the 235-meter distance between the two sites. "It took some time for the staff
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Although the outlook of the Indian grape season looked really positive, trade has been rather slow at the start, says Amit Chopde, CEO of Indian fresh produce exporter Chopde Farms and Exports: “The early grape season in India started at a slow pace, which was not expected beforehand. It
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With the Clemenules campaign practically finished, the second part of the campaign has already started in the Region of Valencia "with the harvest of the Clemenvilla, Tango (in the hybrid segment), Sando and Hernandina," says Carles Peris, secretary of La Unió. read more

Unica's new vegetable Zucchiolo, Gautier's courgette Frutastic and Koppert's organic whitefly solution Mirical are finalists in the race for the FRUIT LOGISTICA Innovation Award (FLIA). read more

After two and a half years of preliminary investigation, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty and Forestry (Masaf) has approved the IGP Bergamot of Reggio Calabria and the relative production regulations. The Reggio Calabria supply chain, which includes about 300 operators including bergamotticoltori, rejoices,
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Fruit exporters are struggling to get their cargo through the port of Cape Town as staffing problems, failing equipment and the notorious summer South Easter Wind cause delays. read more

Danish shipping giant Maersk warned customers on Friday to prepare for significant disruption after announcing it will divert all vessels from Red Sea routes around Africa’s Cape of Good Hope for the foreseeable future. read more

Specifically, the DUH had requested to be summoned to a lawsuit filed by the insecticide manufacturer SBM Developpement SAS (case reference: 10 OB 125/23 (1 A 247/22)). The company sells the insecticide Sherpa Duo, among other things, and is suing because of an application restriction against the
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The year 2023 saw a race involving mainline operators’ market positions, according to Alphaliner. Mediterranean Shipping Company overtook Maersk as the world’s largest container carrier in January 2022 and the gap between the two has widened by 1.12 million TEU over the past year. read more

Dubai has announced a ban on single-use plastic bags. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, issued the resolution on December 31, 2023. The ban applies to single-use and recycled products, including plastic and non-plastic items, regardless of their material
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Vincenzo Sabato, an Italian strawberry grower who is well aware of the effects of soil salinity, decided to turn to Pan Agri, a company with more than 40 years of experience in irrigation and fertigation and the creator of the Irrifarm system. read more

"From a production point of view, the requirements have changed completely. We are fortunate that we have a large fleet of machines, because this year certain packaging machines - workhorses in terms of the quantities produced in previous years - have not sold. I am referring in particular
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The organic mushroom farm Reiser, located in Rohrau, Lower Austria, is pioneering new methods in the production of high-quality mushroom substrate for organic mushroom cultivation. Just in time for the new year, the new substrate hall with a total capacity of 1,200m2 was put into operation.
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The second shipping disruption in the Red Sea, in early January, has put Egyptian fresh produce exporters in a difficult situation, unable to export to key markets in Asia. Mina Eissa, an Egyptian exporter of a wide range of fresh produce, reports on the situation. read more