Regions

In the third decade of June 2023, the first offers of the popular Rizamat and Kishmish Kora (Black Kishmish) grape varieties of the new crop appeared on the domestic market of Uzbekistan, at about the same time as last year, with a difference of up to one week. Accordingly, these grape varieties
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Italy is one of the biggest players in the global fruit and vegetable market. In 2022, the volume of just external trade in fruits and vegetables (fresh, dried, and frozen) in Italy totaled $11.6 bln (exports of $5.9 bln and imports of $5.7 bln). read more

VOG apples are becoming increasingly international: this year Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras have joined the more than seventy-five export destinations of the Consortium, which produces 500,000 tonnes of apples a year in South Tyrol-Südtirol.
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According to the observations of specialists from the Association of Grape Producers and Exporters of the Republic of Moldova, by mid-July, the state of most table grape plantations in the country can be assessed as good or very good. If the weather in the second half of summer and during the
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"The deadlines demanded by the European Climate Commissioner and the European Green Deal,Frans Timmermans,on the reduction of plant protection products are unreasonable". This is how the Minister of Agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida spoke in a video link during the national assembly
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Climate change is disrupting the countryside, where there has been a 10% cut in wheat production while the honey harvest has fallen by 70% compared to last year, but orchards are also in trouble, with cherries down 60% due to the flooding in Romagna, the
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The Citrus Growers’ Association of South Africa (CGA) has asked the country’s National Disaster Management Centre to act with urgency and declare the recent floods in the Western Cape a provincial disaster. read more

The UK and Turkey have today (18 July) announced plans to begin talks on an updated free trade agreement (FTA). read more

Cosco Shipping is to launch a new weekly service connecting Northern Europe and the Mediterranean with the East Coast of South America. From September, ESE2 will including the fastest transit time of only 12 days between Algeciras, Spain and Santos, Brazil. read more

South Africa’s Transnet National Ports Authority has selected International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI) as its equity partner in the Durban Container Terminal (DCT) Pier 2. read more

New Zealand apple grower-packer-marketer Golden Bay Fruit (GBF) is fine-tuning its marketing for Cherish apples to highlight the key attributes driving growing demand for the variety across Asia. read more

The 'Enograi' enterprise, specializing in fruit cultivation, suffered significant losses due to the occupation of the Kherson region. Preliminary calculations indicate damages caused by the Russians exceed 100 million hryvnias (approximately 2,4 million euros). read more

Container terminals in Hong Kong and Guangdong province and Hainan Island in China have suspended operations as Typhoon Talim made landfall on the morning of 17 July. read more

Polish farmers fear a repeat of the situation with grain when uncontrolled imports affect the market and cause a significant price drop. This time we are talking about frozen strawberries and raspberries. read more

Amazon seeks Dutch distribution center read more

Peaches and Apricots of France and FNPFruits have contacted the Union of Fruit and Vegetable Wholesalers (UNGCFL) to “organize an urgent meeting and find solutions.” read more

Syngenta Vegetable Seeds has long focused its EAME research and development activities on the iceberg salad segment, a stable and consolidated market for Italy and also particularly interesting for its dual consumption destination: I and IV Gamma. By
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Inflation in Bulgaria decreased to 8.7 percent in June, compared to a year earlier; a deflation of minus 0.4 percent was reported. This means that prices decreased compared to the month of May. This is the second time this has happened since the beginning of this year. read more

Fewer vegetables are being grown in Estonia because farms lack workers. This has led to higher quantities of vegetables now being imported from abroad than before. In 2019, Estonian farmers prepared 2,035 hectares of land on which to grow vegetables. This year, however, they have already halved
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The apricot campaign gets into full swing, with the arrival of new varieties such as Goccia d'oro. Apricot quality is increasing with the start of sales of the Pellecchiella and Faralia cultivars. Production is growing in the open area for watermelons. Sustained demand but availability
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