Every day he gets five or six inquiries from India about South African fruit, says Sri Krishna, founding director of Paarl-based Fruitful Global which he set up after 26 years in the trade in India and Singapore. read more

Tears of joy flowed at many of the elegantly laid tables in the Hotel Oderberger in Berlin when the winners came on stage and the great work of the award-winning markets was honoured with emotional words in presentations, through videos, moderator Markus Brock and the laudators.
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Orders for kiwifruit plants to be transplanted in the fall are coming in at La Quercia, which is currently carrying out grafts for club golden kiwifruits as well as growing "free sale" plants such as Hayward. read more

A large irrigation reservoir, built without a licence in Cómpeta in the Axarquía, broke on Sunday. This led to the loss of tens of thousands of litres of water. The incident happened at an avocado farm located in the Las Zorreras-Los Llanos area. For reasons that are unknown and are being
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Aldi SÜD's Africa cashew kernels are transported directly from the cultivation region in West Africa to the German shops. The discounter has now been awarded first place in the German Award for Sustainability Projects in the category "Product - Food". read more

Kuehne+Nagel has signed an agreement to acquire Morgan Cargo, a leading logistics company in South Africa, the UK and Kenya specialising in perishable goods logistics. Kuehne+Nagel said the company employs around 450 people.
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Lamb Weston EMEA opened its new Innovation Center in Bergen op Zoom, the Netherlands, on 8 June 2023 in the presence of employees, suppliers and the mayor of the city. This new facility enhances the company’s ability to develop and test new products and processes on a small scale, accelerating
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Apple prices have recently reached their historic high in Ukraine, according to EastFruit. read more

According to Egyptian Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation El Sayed Al Qusseir, the nation will start exporting onions and citrus to the Philippines and Uzbekistan on June 15. Egyptian agriculture exports from January to 24 August this year have amounted to around 4,491,099 tons, El
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S&F Produce Group is a fresh produce solution provider from Hong Kong. It is a family company, run by the second generation. Founded in 1979 by the Sin family, it has grown into a vertically integrated company that runs more than 300 lines of fresh produce through its import offices to
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The political elections had an impact on the course of the Turkish Lira, says Berdan Ber, of the Türkiye Exporters Assembly. Ber is on the Fresh Vegetables and Fruits Sector Board (dişil) specifically. He feels the value of the Turkish lira wasn’t correctly assessed: “Turkey is a country
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The colours and flavours of Colombia will take centre stage from 9-14 June in Poland’s largest retail chain, Biedronka. read more

The countdown is on to the 2023 International Blueberry Organization (IBO) Summit, which kicks off on July 3 in Poland and is the first to take place in Europe. read more

Global Plant Genetics (GPG), the UK-based IP company, has recently extended its representation of the raspberry varieties from James Hutton by taking on the territories of Mexico and Guatemala for the varieties Skye, Lewis and Glen Mor. Mexico is the world’s largest exporter of fresh raspberries. read more

Spain’s fruit and vegetable imports in the first quarter were up 17% year-on-year in the first quarter to around one million tons, with the volume from non-EU countries rising by 20%, according to data from the Spanish Federation of Associations of Exporting Producers of Fruits and Vegetables
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Belinda Van Schaik has won the 2023 IFPA-Produce Plus Marketer of the Year Award (MOYA), sponsored by Seeka. read more

The GEPC (European mushroom producer group) promotional campaign is starting. With a budget of €5 million - 675,000 of which to be invested in Italy - the aim is to increase consumption in those European areas where there is still scope to do so due to their inhabitants and potential. read more

China: Can Yonghui’s hot tech CEO turn the supermarket chain around? read more

While Egypt has totally closed the window for Israel’s 2023 table grape exports, producers and exporters are not worried due to strong local market demand. Israel’s 2023 harvest started early last month with the earliest greenhouse grown grapes being harvested. read more

“This is completely crazy,” explains a French organic producer. “They are killing the organic sector!” Anger is growing among organic producers. On the 6th of June, French television channel France 2 broadcast a new edition of Cash Investigation “Organic Alert” (Alerte sur le bio).
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