Denmark, it seems, can teach us a thing or two about the organic fresh produce business. That’s certainly a view shared by those behind Made in Nature, an EU-backed campaign to promote consumption and awareness of organic products in selected European markets. read more

One of the consequences of the UK leaving the European Union in 2020 is that it is now able to set its own tariff and phytosanitary conditions for the entry of perishable products. read more

Two South African fruit exporting companies, Vitanova International and Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing, have joined their local Kenyan partners to establish a new state-of-the-art cold storage facility. read more

Reusable packaging container (RPC) specialist Ifco has released its environmental, social and governance (ESG) report for 2023. read more

Citrus production in the Northern Hemisphere is projected to reach 28.976m tonnes in 2023/24, an increase of 12.2 per cent on last season and 1.48 per cent higher than the average for the previous four seasons. read more

Italy-based Orsero Group, one of Europe’s leading fresh produce importers and distributors, has launched a new project to promote equal opportunities and inclusivity in its own business and the wider industry. read more

A key recommendation that the freight forwarding association draws from the latest study by Global Energy Solutions (GSE) e.V. is that the mobility transition can only be mastered globally and not by Germany alone. Furthermore, there is no one fuel that can be used as an all-round solution to
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Ag-tech provider AgPick Technology has called on growers act on pieceworker non-compliance as authorities highlight issues some 18 months after the introduction of new Horticulture Award piece-rate rules. read more

Morocco seems to have set its sights on becoming Europe's new food engine. And it is doing so through investment. read more

Macfrut, the international fruit and vegetable fair scheduled from 8 to 10 May 2024, was presented on Tuesday 14 November to the authorities, associations and stakeholders of the Dominican Republic at a meeting held at the headquarters of the Ministry of Agriculture in Santo Domingo. read more

Reports from around the world currently describe a dynamic global blueberry market. The Netherlands is grappling with an ongoing shortage, particularly from Peru and South Africa, leading to persistently high prices and challenges for suppliers. In Germany, importers face a significant drop in
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In these days of mid-autumn, at the Sant'Orsola cooperative, the evaluation of the 2023 harvest and the forecasts for 2024 are overlapping. The focus is on the blueberry that the cooperative produces from the north to the south of Italy, on the farms of its 800 members. The strategies adopted
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The Secretary General for Agriculture, Fernando Miranda, presented Spain's position, as the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, on the role of New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) in achieving a more sustainable agriculture. This debate took place at the
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Farmers in Tajikistan have already gathered more than 790,000 tons of potatoes since the beginning of the current year, according to the country's Ministry of Agriculture. The potato yield per hectare is reported to be 240 centners, as per the source. read more

Trufresh has expanded its recall of all sizes of fresh cantaloupes packaged in cardboard containers labeled with the “Malichita” label, to include the following additional sales order numbers distributed between October 16, 2023 and October 23, 2023 because they have the potential to be
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Crunchy and colourful: excellent quality for Verona radicchio, which is flying in the South. The product from Verona, historically consumed in Northern Italy, is also gaining ground in the South thanks to its taste and beauty. read more

The weakening of the Kenyan shilling has led to an increase in fruit prices along the Kenya-Uganda border. The fluctuating supply of fruits from Uganda has also played a role in the rising costs. Various fruits, including watermelon, bananas, pawpaws, and pineapples, have seen price hikes. read more

The World Citrus Organisation (WCO) released its annual Northern Hemisphere Citrus Forecast for the 2023-24 season. It was released after the Global Citrus Outlook conference organized on 15 November by WCO. The forecast is based on data from Egypt, Greece, Israel, Italy, Morocco, Spain,
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Egypt has more than tripled its exports of frozen vegetables to the US, which is the largest importer of this product in the world, reports EastFruit. As a result, the country ranked eighth in the list of suppliers of this product to the US market in 2022! read more