British trade association the Cold Chain Federation (CCF) has revealed new survey results showing that 74 per cent of UK cold chain operators consider that the sector has emerged from supply chain challenges such as Covid-19 disruption and the energy crisis more resilient than it was before. read more

Valente, the specialist provider of technical solutions for vineyards and orchards, commemorated its 60th anniversary earlier this month with a special event for employees and customers at the picturesque Villa Montruglio in Barbarano Mossano, Vicenza. read more

Valente, the specialist provider of technical solutions for vineyards and orchards, commemorated its 60th anniversary earlier this month with a special event for employees and customers at the picturesque Villa Montruglio in Barbarano Mossano, Vicenza. read more

Summer Citrus from South Africa (SCSA) has entered its 25th shipping season with the first fruit arriving in the US towards the end of May. read more

In a resolution adopted yesterday at its General Assembly, the European organic movement re-affirms that organic production should remain free from GMOs including from New Genomic Techniques (NGTs). read more

With a resolution on sustainable innovation in organic farming, the BioMarkt Verbund reaffirms its commitment to GMO-free cultivation and organic plant breeding.  read more

Summer Citrus from South Africa (SCSA) entered its 25th shipping season with the support of the MSC Shirley and fruit arrived in the U.S. towards the end of May. Despite recent heavy rainfall in the Western Cape and in Citrusdal, where SCSA’s growers are primarily located, the group is
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A hesitant start to the season due to cool and cloudy spring days was followed by many sunny weeks with cool nights and only since one week with warmer nights. Thanks to innovative irrigation technology, the severe drought of the past few weeks was not a problem for strawberry growers.
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Soon after setting up the business in 2005, ATOP Foods became India's first potato chip and nankeen producer to achieve ISO 2000:2005 certification for food safety management systems. Following years of success in western India, in 2018, this business founded a new company, Bizz Corporation.
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Fruit and vegetable products are always evolving after harvest: visibly and invisibly. Invisible attributes such as shelf life, defects inside the fruit, temperature damage and ripeness parameters pose a particular challenge when assessing the items. The webinar
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The 23rd edition of Forum Retail, the largest technology networking hub for the retail community, has kicked off: the first event, the Executive Summit, was held in the past few weeks and was attended by 180 C-Levels from the retail world. Six
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Launching at Fruit Focus on July 12 (NIAB EMR, Kent), Antobot and CleanLight are partnering up to support robotics in the horticulture sector. read more

Last Thursday, on the campus of the Edmund Mach Foundation in San Michele all'Adige, the new greenhouse serving research, training and experimentation activities was inaugurated. It is a very modern structure, covering one thousand square metres, equipped with technology
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After a few days on the shelf, raspberries are likely to join millions of tonnes of produce that are wasted every year. This unnecessary loss of food can be reduced thanks to technology. Food tech driven by the purpose of combating food waste, revealed trial results showing that raspberries
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Fruit and vegetable display is often the winning weapon to attract consumers, to involve them in a colourful feast, to send a clear message of freshness and quality. Then there are those who convey this experience on social networks to complete a communication that starts from the
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Healthy food and environmental protection, the search for quality and respect for raw materials, short supply chains and price trends: consumer preferences are driven by motivations and needs that change over time, but seem to be increasingly influenced by the principles
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At the Milan Expo of 2015, the shop of the future was presented, but to date there is no evidence of what was seen then. And to say that at the production level, technological innovation in recent years has helped to improve work in the countryside in no small measure (the famous agriculture 4.0), with
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Ager Campanusis an organisation of producers particularly concerned about the future of the planet. This is why it has decided to place the values of sustainability, innovation and food education at the centre of its work, without retreating an inch on the quality it offers. Ce
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The interactive augmented reality game "Catch the pear!" is now available online. It is one of the tools part of the campaign of the EU project "Pears with love: a case study of sustainable agriculture", promoted by Apo Conerpo Sca and co-financed by the European Community.   read more

A few weeks before the EU Commission is to officially present its new draft law on the handling of genetic engineering on 5 July, a first draft has leaked out from Brussels. According to the draft, the precautionary principle that has applied in the EU for decades would be abolished and new genetic engineering
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