Leading Australian fresh producer grower-packer-marketer Costa Group has announced that Harry Debney will continue in his role as interim chief executive officer (CEO) until 31 December 2023.  read more

Kiwifruit marketer Zespri has told New Zealand media outlet Stuff that it will shortly begin pre-commercial trials of a new red kiwifruit cultivar in the country. read more

Exports of kiwifruit, apples and onions from New Zealand to the EU are expected to benefit immediately from a new free-trade agreement signed on 9 July. read more

The South African citrus industry has always said that its products are valued across the globe for their high quality. This is also the case in the US, where growers from the Western and Northern Cape have built a significant market during more than two decades. read more

The John Lewis Partnership is making a £100,000 donation via charity partner FareShare to ensure thousands of nutritional meals reach people in need across the UK. read more

A dock worker from Portsmouth, who was involved in a plot to smuggle millions of pounds worth of cocaine into the UK in pallets of bananas was caught after police switched out the drugs for dummy packages. The suspect was on shift at Portsmouth docks in April last year when 372 pallets of
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Plum cultivation in Uzbekistan is demonstrating promising growth in exports, as evidenced by the latest statistical data. read more

Fruit will inevitably cost more or less, depending on the variety and where you are in the world. Still, there are of course the very exclusive fruits, that are a category on their own. You have the premium Yubari King Melon, harvested in the hills of Japan’s. Or there is the Ruby Roman Grape,
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After the end of the first half of the Moroccan watermelon season, with crops coming in from Zagora and other regions of southern Morocco, growers in Larache (north) and Gharb (west) are entering the market with imminent harvests. read more

Vitaal, part of the Nationwide Fruit group, have announced that they will close their facility in Poeldijk, The Netherlands, citing increased post-Brexit protocols and increased paperwork and costs as contributing factors. read more

This is the final week of Pick n Pay’s annual June campaign that leverages mandarin popularity in aid of charity. read more

"Our latest machine to meet the needs of a customer in the Netherlands is an all-electric harvester for leafy vegetables, especially parsley, powered by solar energy," says Alberico Durso, founder of Dari Ecomeccanica, a machine builder from Eboli, in the southern Italian province of Salerno. read more

French apricots are currently going through a difficult period, due to a number of factors that have gradually driven prices down to levels unacceptable to producers. “The situation is partly due to the general economic context and the drop in purchasing power,” explains Raphaël Martinez,
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After rain, hail and windstorms that lasted until June, now summer arrives and does so with equal violence. In fact, the African anticyclone Cerberus will descend on the Peninsula with unprecedented force and with temperatures that will even touch 42°C. The areas most affected by the
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A South Australian juice company has been fined $120,000 after an employee was scalped in a workplace incident. The incident occurred when the woman was instructed to clear a blockage from a conveyor belt. Alexandra Trandafil, an 18-year-old working at a Nippy's Waikerie Producers Pty Ltd
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Ocado launches first robotic warehouse in Asia with Aeon read more

Tom Antens returned to Hazera on July 1, 2023, as Head of the Commercial Department. “Even though Hazera is a strong brand in many markets, there’s still a lot of room to grow and new markets to explore. I see a lot of potential”, said Tom. read more

While geneticist Nazzareno Strampelli, the father of modern cereal cultivation, is currently being celebrated with an exhibition at the Ministry of Agriculture and the issuing of a special stamp, Europe and Italy are still behind when it comes to the implementation of the most advanced genetic
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The Moroccan Dumara watermelon season is in full swing at Ibrahim Nieuwegein, a fruit and vegetable/meat wholesaler in the Netherlands. "We carry these under our own brand Lamyae. They're bright red and have excellent brix levels. Customers genuinely keep returning for this brand," Mohammed Arab
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Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon recently visited the Sughd region, where he inaugurated a new water supply facility in the village of Khurramdara and visited a potato farm called "Nur." read more