Frédéric Jautrou is one of the 15 asparagus growers who came together to create the registered trademark “Asperges du Pays de Richelieu”, an initiative that has helped promote the spring vegetable in the region. read more

A study, led by the first winner of the inaugural Carol Ellison Science Award 2021, has determined the optimum height for a drone to fly and target desert locusts with biopesticides in order for it be most effective as a tool to fight the devastating crop pest. read more

AgroFresh Solutions, Inc., a supplier of near-and post-harvest produce freshness solutions, announced four key appointments to its senior leadership team. These new leaders will strengthen its leadership and enhance its capabilities in global operations, manufacturing, information technology
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Banana cultivation in India has come a long way in the past few decades, says Ajay Chopra, founder of Indian fresh produce brand Wonderberry: “The Indian banana cultivation has seen a fair bit of evolution over the past two decades. For example, the change from flat irrigation technology to
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The Dutch O+G umbrella organisation GroentenFruit Huis welcomes in principle the plans of the food association CBL to achieve a uniform sustainability standard with a sound economic model together with Dutch farmers and gardeners. "The actors
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Container shipping companies' profit margins hit a two-year low in the fourth quarter of 2022, as rates and demand plunged. According to Alphaliner's latest report, margins fell from nearly 52% in the third quarter to 33% in the fourth. read more

Around 230 participants met at the invitation of the Deutsches Verpackungsinstitut e. V. (dvi) at the 18th German Packaging Congress in Berlin on 30 and 31 March 2023. In presentations, dialogue formats and workshops, the "summit meeting of the industry" with representatives from business and industry addressed
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Just about every sector uses pallets, which, over the years, have also survived every kind of innovation. Whether wood or plastic, a warehouse is incomplete without these goods carriers. At Kloek Pallets in the Netherlands, they know the importance of pallets, which is why founder Wout Kloek
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The Italian agri-food world enthusiastically welcomes the start of the examination of the draft law for the field experimentation of Assisted Evolution Techniques (ATE). Great opportunities lie ahead for agriculture in terms of both sustainability and competitiveness
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Ecuadorean banana supplier Reybanpac has picked up an award from business magazine Ekos as one of the Best Companies with Triple Impact: economic, social and environmental. read more

Lineage Logistics, the global temperature-controlled solutions provider, has opened a new Southern Europe headquarters in Madrid as part of its continued investment in the region. read more

The Latin American Banana Sustainability Taskforce, a consortium of banana producers and exporters of Latin America, has strongly criticised German retailer Lidl for selling a kilo of Rainforest Alliance-certified bananas below €1, arguing that such a low price damages efforts to make the
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The time is right for the global avocado industry to reclaim the narrative around the fruit’s sustainability. read more

The Green Line launches a large assortment of summer novelties under the DimmidiSì brand name in the name of naturalness, taste and health innovation. The Fresh Dishes line focuses on the positive rice trend The new Pink Tonic read more

Chilean freight rates to the Middle East have dropped to a level roughly equivalent to South Africa’s freight rates to that region, while on the route to India, last year’s extreme difference between freight rates for Chile and for South Africa has flattened out. read more

With immediate effect, the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has ordered the suspension of several previously granted emergency authorisations for three plant protection products containing the active ingredient metalaxyl-M. read more

Associate Professor Andrew Geering of the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI) said monitoring avocado sunspot disease is important to protect lucrative overseas markets. Bees are expected to help with this, according to a recent study by the
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Sea-Intelligence has published issue 139 of the Global Liner Performance (GLP) report, with schedule reliability figures up to and including February 2023. As the report itself is quite comprehensive and covers schedule reliability across 34 different trade lanes and 60+ carriers, this
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The demand for mushrooms keeps climbing thanks to their health benefits, says Mitofresh CEO Valon Bahtiri. To cope with the high demand, this Dutch wholesale and import/export company started growing its own mushrooms. The operational expansion led to space running out at Mitrofresh's office,
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AgroFresh Solutions, Inc. a global leader in post-harvest solutions for extending the freshness of fresh produce, with a mission to reduce food loss and waste, has announced four key appointments to its management team. These new leaders will strengthen the
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