GEGE Machinebouw introduced waterjet cutting lines for products, including leeks, about a decade ago. This innovation means using a moving waterjet blade to process leeks has become a common practice among leek growers. Still, there was always a bottleneck when positioning the leeks because they
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2022 was not the best year for fruit growers in Serbia due to the war in Ukraine and increased input costs, primarily transportation. Zoran Keserovic, Professor at the Agriculture Faculty in Novi Sad, said that the selling prices of raspberries were unrealistically high, regardless of the
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The British potato supplier Cockerill has recently expanded their dolly- and crate loading capacity to 240 bags per minute. The commissioning of the third Lan Handling dolly and crate loader, their handling capacity increases to this new total by using these three production lines. read more

The new snack pepper brand Tatayoyo has won the Fruit Logistica Innovation Award 2023! The Dutch vegetable breeding company Rijk Zwaan is extremely honored by this recognition of fresh produce professionals’ enthusiasm for Tatayoyo. This unique, ready-to-eat pepper with bursting flavors is one
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"Food, business, innovations and the advantages of the individual regions" - for the organisers of the Italian Fruit Village, these are the core elements for the success of their joint stand. The presentation of the Italian Food Awards certainly also contributed to the positive response.
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As part of an AgriQnet project, a broad-based project partnership has built a prototype plant protection robot (PS robot) with spotspraying technology and conducted numerous trials in recent years. The results are now available in a project report
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Mercamadrid is looking to the future with a firm commitment to innovation, the key to offering innovative and effective responses to current business challenges shared by the sector. Innovation now has its headquarters in Mercamadrid, thanks to a new space that serves as a base and meeting point for
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The winner of this year's Innovation Award is a pepper from Rijk Zwaan in the Netherlands marketed under the brand name Tatayoyo. The pepper has a distinctive and strong taste that originates from wild peppers. With its pod of medium size between a pepper and a
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A plant-based coating for fruits, which helps them retain moisture, a working automated scrubber for produce bins and a new case packer was among the solutions highlighted by JBT at Fruit Logistica 2023 in Berlin, Germany last week. read more

The Latin American Taskforce, a consortium of Latin American banana producers and exporters, met last week at the Fruit Logistica trade fair in Berlin to discuss the issue of Shared Responsibility with all stakeholders. The Due Diligence Directive of
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At Fruit Logistica L'Insalata dell'Orto brought to the attention of buyers the commitments the group is making on the sustainability front. "For the first time this year we presented ourselves in Berlin, at the key show of the year for us, together as a group
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KRONEN only lifted the curtain on the KUJ-HC 220 cube, pin and slice cutting machine at this year's FRUIT LOGISTICA. The new solution was presented to the global industry for the first time in Berlin. Vegetables, fruit and other foodstuffs can be sliced with high capacity of up to read more

Brocomole Ysi? by Bouquet, produced by Janus Fruit, a company in the Anecoop Group, was the third most voted innovation by professionals attending this week's Fruit Logistica trade fair (Berlin), a leading international event in the
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According to Foreign Affairs Minister Justin Tkatchenko, the PNG government is looking at increasing and boosting its fruit pickers quota in New Zealand from the current 100 to more than 1000. Under New Zealand's Labour Mobility Program, there are currently over 18,000 positions which PNG needs
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After a three-month test phase, MyBio, a new organic delivery service with products in Demeter, Bioland or Naturland quality, is now taking off in the greater Munich area. This gives people in the city and surrounding areas convenient access to over 5,000 organic products via online ordering.
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Rijk Zwaan’s Tatayoyo pepper has beaten off stiff competition from nine other leading fresh produce innovations to win the Fruit Logistica Innovation Award 2023. read more

The LatAm Taskforce, a consortium of banana producers and exporters of Latin America, met this week at the Fruit Logistica fair in Berlin to engage with stakeholders on the topic of shared responsibility. read more

Innovations can help to meet current challenges and make the fruit trade more efficient. One example is artificial intelligence (AI). read more

After two days of voting during FRUIT LOGISTICA, the votes have been counted and the winner has been decided: this year, the FRUIT LOGISTICA Innovation Award (FLIA) goes to Tatayoyo from Rijk Zwaan. With 26% of the votes, the pepper is the winner in the competition for the best innovation
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The monitoring of the degree of ripeness of tropical fruit is one of the key aspects in managing operations at the packing houses of importers in order to offer the market fruit at the desired quality and ripeness. read more