Gruppo Agribologna - a top player in the production and distribution of fruit and vegetables in Italy, with an estimated turnover of more than 260 million euro by 2023 and more than 250 employees - gives birth, through the sale of its business unit, to Arandis srl, an agricultural trading company for the
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French antitrust clears Intermarché's purchase of Casino stores with conditions read more

South African avocados are celebrating their second win: the country has gained market access for its avocados to Japan. read more

This year, Henk Rozema started his own fruit and vegetable trading company, Fruta Rosa International, in the Netherlands. The name is a tribute to the parent company, Fruithandel Rozema. "I learned the trade from my father, of whom I'll always be proud," says Henk. read more

The global blueberry market is characterised by what exporters and imports call persistently high prices, high demand and with some seeing lower but improving quality arriving compared to other seasons. Overall there is less fruit available from the world’s major blueberry producer, Peru, or
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At the beginning of January 2024, the Mauritanian authorities decided to triple transit fees for Moroccan fruit and vegetables, raising them from €1,600 to €4,600. A surprising decision for Moroccan exporters, unexplained by the Mauritanian side. In an attempt to understand the background of
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Three years ago, ginger farmers in northeastern South Africa and southern Mozambique simultaneously started noticing that the foliage in their ginger lands die off two months after planting, and by the time plants recover in April, three valuable growing months had been lost. read more

"Fourth consecutive year of drought / Depletion of groundwater / Critical levels of reserves in the largest dams / Worst situation of water stress in four decades..." alarming headlines are raising questions about the fate of the agricultural season in Morocco, particularly in the Souss Massa
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The Moroccan blueberry season seems to be emerging unscathed despite a number of adverse factors, according to Mehdi Benchekroun, a Moroccan exporter of general fresh produce. read more

Specialist TFC Holland's exotics category has grown strongly in recent years. This Dutch company is, thus, working on expanding its storage and ripening capacity. Last year, the wholesaler took a new location into use in the Netherlands. It includes artificial intelligence-based avocado and
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In an exciting achievement, Waikiki has been recognised with the "Flavour of the Year 2024" award in Portugal. This recognition is awarded by an objective panel of consumers and endorsed by a specialised external laboratory who have rated their satisfaction with Waikiki in a manner
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According to a report by the USDA, the United States Department of Agriculture, world table grape production is on the rise thanks to improved cultivation practices in China that have increased the quality and quantity of grapes. A key factor for
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The International Society for Infectious Diseases' program, ProMED, has reported the detection of Pepper ringspot virus (PepRSV) in both seed and commercial potato varieties across several South African provinces. read more

Tropical fruit cultivation has been growing in Spain for years, spearheaded by avocados, which in 2022 accounted for more than 19,500 hectares in the country. In recent years, in fact, official data reveal an interesting development of the acreage. Since the year 2000, when the avocado acreage
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On Tuesday, 9 January, the customary meeting of the Assomel Marketing Committee took place to review production, stocks and sales of Italian apples for the new 2023/2024 marketing season.   read more

The Egyptian carrot season has just begun, and this year the crop continues to gain in importance in terms of production and export volumes. So says Mohamed Ahmed, sales representative of the growing company Al Jabali. read more

In the region where Spain's most famous and widely planted clementine, the Clemenules, was born, there's a cooperative which is primarily focused on this variety. Cooperatives in Castellon are currently having some difficult times, with aging producers struggling to find successors in the
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According to EastFruit analysts, after the New Year holidays in Uzbekistan, apple prices resumed their growth after a long period of stability despite the traditional weakening of demand. In the first week of January 2024, wholesale apple prices jumped by an average of 20% and were 29% higher
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The Red Sea crisis is clearly not over yet, and the carriers’ networks are presently extremely volatile and prone to quick changes. From a shipper perspective, the transit times will clearly increase with the round of Africa routing. It will be a bit more than a week longer from Asia to North
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The first new Spanish Calinda strawberries recently arrived at Special Fruit. This Belgian company's Polina Valkanova says the market eagerly anticipated this new harvest. "After a difficult December with lower quality import strawberries, mainly from Egypt and Morocco, we received plenty of
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