Morocco has been increasing its asparagus exports over the past five years, and their volumes have more than doubled, as reported by EastFruit. For three marketing years in a row, Morocco was shipping asparagus only to Spain. However, since the MY 2021/22, Moroccan exporters have expanded their
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Yesterday morning, the first press conference was held regarding the EU project 'Pears with love: a case study of sustainable agriculture', the three-year programme of Apo Conerpo, co-financed by the European Union under EU Regulation No. 1144/2014. The programme is aimed at
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"Just when the industry was looking to recover from the pandemic, we’ve been plunged into an even greater state of crisis triggered by a number of factors. Increased production costs linked to soaring energy tariffs and the rate of inflation peaking at 11.5% last October – a figure that is
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In recent years, shelf-life extension technologies have grown vigorously as many companies saw an opportunity to tap into the hot topic of reducing food waste. “The produce industry is increasingly focused on food waste, and we saw an uptick in a genuine interest in post-harvest shelf-life
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This year’s supermarket shortages of wholehead (not prepared or processed) produce, particularly fresh salad items, highlighted the fact that the UK is no longer the destination of choice that it was 25 years ago. read more

From 1 July, Tomabel strawberries from Belgian cooperative REO Veiling, are set to be offered in new strawberry punnets that meet the latest sustainability requirements. read more

Root crop disease and defect monitoring system TuberSense – under development by agri-tech business B-hive Innovations - has entered its next project phase to revolutionise how technology can anticipate issues in tubers before the crop loses its quality and value. read more

“The future will be shaped, in large part, by how we produce, process, and consume food,” said Dr Juan Carlos Motamayor, general director of Neom Food, adding: “The future of food is the future of mankind.” Neom Food has adopted a pioneering approach to designing a fully sustainable and
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Through an Agriculture Victoria Food to Market programme, Citrus Australia has conducted a first-of-its-kind study to characterise Australian oranges at both a country and regional level, using laboratory testing of trace elements and isotope ratios. read more

For the fresh produce industry, quality control has always been a thorny issue. The industry now faces additional challenges in balancing commercial pressures, consumer expectations, and increasingly urgent sustainability concerns. And traditional, manual methods can only offer diminishing returns. read more

The Warehouse has announced it will be expanding its fresh fruit and vegetable trial to a further five stores and three new regions across New Zealand. read more

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Declining transport volumes and rising costs are putting forwarders and logistics companies under increasing pressure. After two economically good years, the profit expectations of the forwarding companies have fallen significantly this year in view of growing process, personnel and financing costs.
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Lidl Italia, a large-scale retail chain with 730 shops nationwide, marks an important milestone on its path of continuous innovation and digitisation of its business. The company, in fact, has begun the progressiveimplementation in all its supermarkets of
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Sources say the Mediterranean Shipping Company is up for another round of newbuilding orders. The company has reportedly asked several South Korean and Chinese shipyards for price quotes for 8,000 TEU ships to be dual-fuelled with methanol or LNG. The number of vessels the Swiss-Italian carrier
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Burro is an autonomous mobility company that provides solutions for the agriculture industry. It has announced a new partnership with Salinas-based Pacific Ag Rentals (PAR), a provider of agricultural tractor and equipment rentals in the US The partnership will add autonomous Burro robots to
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In the panorama of oblong tomatoes for green and red harvest, Kws Vegetables' Navigante F1 plays a leading role thanks to its special features: as the growers also testify, it is an early fruit with excellent production capacity throughout the cycle. read more

Australia’s potato and onion category player Mitolo Family Farms has partnered with Coles as well as global innovators in sustainable packaging solutions Detpak to create what is believed to be Australia’s first kerbside recyclable paper bag for fresh potatoes. read more

The Board of Directors of Kühne+Nagel International AG will appoint Michael Aldwell to the Executive Board with effect from 1 October 2023. Aldwell will assume responsibility for the Sea Freight division and succeed Horst Joachim (Otto) Schacht, according to the
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In Viterbo, producers are preparing for the planning of the next brassica campaign. An extremely reliable partner is Syngenta Vegetable Seeds, one of the world's leading players in the segment, which has always supported Italian farms by offering innovative varieties
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