The Bonduelle Group's revenue stands for FY 2022-2023 at € 2,406.2 million, a change from the previous financial year of +9.2% based on reported figures and +5.0% on like for like basis*. Currency variations had a positive impact of +4.2% on the group growth, with the US dollar and Russian
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William H. Kopke Jr., Inc., a vertically integrated fruit and produce company, announces the arrival of its summer citrus from South Africa, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Colombia and Argentina. This premium citrus fruit including mandarins, navel oranges, minneolas, cara caras, grapefruits and lemons,
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The Dutch vegetable breeder and seed supplier Rijk Zwaan, as part of its ‘Freshly Forward, from Foundation to Future’ theme is the company's road map for tackling today’s challenges. This is done together with retail and producer partners in Asian countries of Malaysia and Vietnam. read more

Last week, in a sunny break to a wet Cape winter, the Southern African fresh produce industry enjoyed a rare moment to meet colleagues from across the region, although producers were fewer in number than previous years and, as noted by an audience member, most shipping lines not in attendance. read more

Facilitating the export of apples of Moldovan origin to the Indian market, including the approval of phytosanitary requirements to complete the import approval procedure for this product per Indian law, was one of the main topics discussed by the Director General of the National Food Safety
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EastFruit wrote earlier that the average wholesale prices for raspberries in the Georgian market this season had remained the same, despite higher prices at the beginning of the season. Now they are 9 lari per kg ($3.43). While some farmers fear potential marketing problems if supply increases
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Kenya Plant Inspectorate Health Services managing director, Theophilus Mutui, said the country has gotten an additional approval to export temperature treated mango fruits to the European Union. He said the notification for the approval to use vapour heat treatment for fresh mango fruit from
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This year, the proudly South African ClemenGold premium mandarin brand celebrates its 20th anniversary. From humble beginnings in Letsitele, Limpopo where the first trees were planted, to sitting proudly on the shelves of Woolworths, citrus lovers in over 45 countries can now purchase the fruit
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Weather conditions in Spain have led to an early start of the tomato harvest in Extremadura, a key tomato-producing region responsible for up to 90% of Spain's processing tomato production. High temperatures and rains in May and June, followed by heatwaves in July, have meant an adjustment in
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From July 31, 2023, Great Britain canceled all customs duties and tariff quotas for seven agricultural products from Moldova. These benefits will be valid for the next 12 months. This was reported to NewsMaker.md by the British Embassy in the Republic of Moldova. read more

Israeli company BloomX has invented mobile units that bio-mimic the job of the bee. According to Emily Speiser, VP of marketing for BloomX, honeybees, which have become the default bee for pollination in commercial agriculture aren’t as efficient as wild bees in pollinating specific fruits and
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A delegation from South Australia, led by the Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development and several staff members accompanied by representatives of the South Australian agricultural industry and the Australian ambassador to the Netherlands, visited the De Ruiter Experience Center.
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Egypt continues to build up its position in the orange market in Brazil despite the Brazilian orange production being almost five times as high as the Egyptian one, as reported by EastFruit. Egyptian oranges arrived in the Brazilian market just in 2020, but then the volumes climbed drastically. read more

In Tanzania, demand for avocados from Burundi is on the rise despite their high prices. Consumers simply prefer them to local-produced ones due to their size, taste and softness. A survey at Buguruni and Mabibo, the largest avocados wholesale and retail selling points, showed that the price for
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The Gemüsering Group is one of the largest fruit and vegetable companies in Germany, which also includes companies such as Kärcher and Andretta, which together with the Gemüsering itself are located at the Stuttgart wholesale market. Freshplaza.de spoke to sales manager Markus Keller on site.
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In the first three months since the beginning of the melon export season from Uzbekistan, the volume of shipments of this product to foreign markets was 22% less than the record figure for the same period last year, EastFruit analysts say. read more

From July 31, 2023, Great Britain canceled all customs duties and tariff quotas for seven agricultural products from Moldova. These benefits will be valid for the next 12 months. This was reported to NewsMaker.md by the British Embassy in the Republic of Moldova. read more

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Very low prices for blueberries, expected by Ukrainian berry growers this season, have been avoided. Prices remained close to the previous year’s level, and exports of Ukrainian blueberries have grown significantly. Taras Bashtannik, head of the Ukrainian Fruit and Vegetable Association
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Here is another Italian record that is known to few, outside the trade: it concerns the production of fennel, of which our country is the leader in the European Union with about 370 thousand tonnes per year, obtained from 17 thousand hectares distributed in various parts of the country. Of the
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