A fully equipped rooftop greenhouse was recently commissioned by the Perspekta Group team in the Kyiv area, Ukraine. It took almost two months of building, in cold winter weather while missile attacks zoomed overhead, for the project to be done. read more

Avocados From Mexico (AFM) has announced a strategic restructuring to bring all its demand-driving efforts – including shopper, trade, and foodservice marketing – under a single commercial strategy department. read more

So-called load shedding and cuts in the electricity supply across South Africa is threatening compliance with new EU false codling moth (FCM) regulations on South African oranges. read more

In a “normal” year, the past grape season in Greece would have been a great success, according to Zeus Kiwi, but normal years are starting to appear a thing of the past, and most agree that higher costs look set to stay. read more

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Kuehne and Nagel said it closed the 2022 financial year with an “exceptionally strong result”, seeing growth in net turnover and earnings. read more

Albanian agricultural exports to the European Union reached a record €473m in 2022, according to the country’s agriculture minister, Frida Krifca. This represents an increase of 15.6 per cent in volume and 18.1 per cent in value compared to 2021. read more

For banana producers and traders in the Caribbean departments of Magdalena, Cesar and La Guajira, it is imperative to continue working together with the national government to contain the spread of Fusarium R4T and the threat of cargo contamination by drug traffickers. Preliminary figures
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New data released by Hort Innovation has revealed the value of Australian horticulture grew in 2021/22 (12 months to 30 June 2022), maintaining a trend that has seen value grow A$6.15bn (US$4.14bn) in the last decade. read more

This week, Spain's agriculture minister Luis Planas stated that his country's fruit and vegetable exports to the UK have suffered “no fundamental disruption” from Brexit. Recent shortages of salad staples in British supermarkets were partly due to weather on southern Spain, he said. He
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Spanish fruits and vegetables are scarce in European supermarkets due to bad weather. While supply in most countries in central and northern Europe, such as Germany and France, has fallen by around 30%, in the UK, it has decreased so much that some companies have started rationing how much their
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According to EastFruit analysts, Uzbekistan sharply increased the imports of fresh apples in 2022. They rose by 2.5 times over the year and reached a record 26 700 tonnes. read more

Over the last twelve months, several Irish veg growers — both on a large and smaller scale — have stated that year would be their last harvest as prices paid failed to keep up with the spiraling cost of inputs. This has been a trend seen across Northern Europe. Major growing countries such
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Last week, the deputy minister of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia, Giorgi Khanishvili spoke about the government’s plans to support agriculture in 2023. Particularly about the programs of Preferential Agrocredit, Hazelnut Production Assistance, and Plant the Future, which
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In partnership with Rijk Zwaan, the Indian trading company IG International is introducing Sweet Palermo® in the Indian market. The sweet pointed peppers in four different colors are a good fit with the Indian trading company’s mission to keep inspiring consumers with colorful, healthy, and
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The last stage of the international presentations of Macfrut, the fruit and vegetable trade fair to be held at the Rimini Expo Centre (Italy) from 3 to 5 May, which has visited 20 countries around the world in Central America, has just concluded in South Africa and Zimbabwe,
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Australian family-owned fresh produce business Montague is presenting its first apple variety of the 2023 harvest: SweeTango. SweeTango is crisp and sweet with a zesty watermelon flavor and touch of citrus and spice. SweeTango displays a bright red blush over a yellow cream breaking background
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The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Agricultural Statistics Program is moving to new data sources to meet the demand for more timely agricultural statistics with greater regional detail. read more

For the vegetable producers in the Central Horticultural Association (ZVG), the current price development for fruit vegetables is a consequence of the political framework conditions in Germany, but also of the purchasing behaviour of the trade, which, as always, has focused on goods from Southern Europe and the Netherlands. read more

In 2023, Fenaco will celebrate its 30th anniversary. "The food industry is developing to new levels after the setbacks caused by the pandemic. We want to further expand supplies to the food service industry, where products from local agriculture still have considerable potential for growth,"
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