We predicted it (click here to read more) and the bad weather arrived as early as yesterday afternoon. Too bad that the long-awaited thunderstorms to replenish the ailing reservoirs soon turned into hail; read more

The president of the Provincial Council of Jaén, Francisco Reyes, and the mayor of Bedmar and Garcíez, Pablo Ruiz, visited the Colmena Verde company, which is dedicated to the marketing of fruit and organic products, including white asparagus grown in this municipality. read more

About five years ago, Davie Brooks and Jon Nickerson with Greengo Seed started working on the development of iceberg lettuce that could be harvested mechanically, suitable for both processing as well as fresh markets. Their second goal was to breed for iceberg lettuce with a high Fusarium tolerance. read more

Yesterday, the Moroccan government adopted a decree cancelling the value-added tax on agricultural inputs, searching to help lower prices of fresh produce and other agrifoods. In the African country, food inflation jumped to 20.1% in February, bringing general inflation to 10.1%, a level
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“I think passionfruit has long been a neglected product – few farmers grow it as a top priority crop and almost no-one goes to the store to buy passionfruit. We want to change that,” says Alex de Sousa of Aril Farms, a name he’d like to be associated with high-quality passionfruit. read more

Vietnam's agricultural exports to China are facing increasing difficulties due to tightening export requirements, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD). According to Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Lê Minh Hoan China is no longer an easy market due
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Supplies of strawberries from Central Mexico are coming to the end of the season. “The industry has pushed central Mexico certainly later than what would normally be the case because of the storms in California and the California crops coming on late. Central Mexico has done really really well
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Italy is entering the final stretch of its strawberry campaign. A year that, as in other producing areas of the Mediterranean Arc, has been marked by high temperatures. This situation has not affected the productive and commercial development of Inspire, which belongs to the varietal program of
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The Northern Hemisphere season is about to become intensive and challenging. The Oscar® Greece kiwifruit campaign ended on a positive note with strong support for targeted country marketing actions. Primland expects to finish marketing its French kiwifruit towards the end of May with excellent
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Harrison Feng is the Director at Shandong Imperial Garden Biotechnology, a large producer of shiitake logs from China. The company has a strong and growing export division. Covid-19 hampered exports for a few years, but recently the market has stabilized and activities are returning to pre-Covid
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The number of port strikes around the world has been growing over the past year, causing headaches for many parties. The number of protests and strikes affecting port operations quadrupled last year to 38 incidents. From trucker stoppages in South Korea to dock strikes in Britain, worker
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The wholesale prices for yellow onions of the 2022 harvest in the markets of Chisinau increased by 0.5-1 MDL/kg in the first half of this week up to an average of 15 MDL/kg ($0.83/kg). The rise in the price of onions in the Moldovan market is a normal seasonal phenomenon in April. It is
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"With our twenty years of experience in the sector, we design and build greenhouses for agriculture as well as photovoltaic greenhouses. We aim at being a social driving force in a territory - that of Calabria - that is not yet ready to value its land, and therefore to benefit from its huge
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March has been a very strong month for the Polish apples, says Jan Nowakowski, manager for Polish apple distributor, Genesis Fresh: “The sales of apples in March peaked compared to February and previous months. The beginning of the month was very good and this feeling continued for the whole
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Joya Europe sees good opportunities for the Joya apple this season, as marketable volumes have doubled to 13,000 tonnes compared with last season. read more

What are the main challenges facing vegetable growers in Belgium at the moment, and what are they coming to you for research on? read more

With Hass avocado plantings booming across the world – not least in Peru, Colombia and Kenya – you would be forgiven for thinking there wasn’t much need for another country to get in on the act. But outside the summer peak, from May to October, avocado supply to Europe is lower, and buyers
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In some ways, Belgium’s system for buying and selling fruit and vegetables seems a bit old-fashioned. But the recent scrutiny of British retailers’ fixed seasonal contracts for most fresh produce has made some consider the merits of alternative models – systems which arguably return a
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What are Uganda’s main fresh produce exports and markets in Europe? read more

Let’s be honest, Brexit has been a big headache for EU exporters of fresh produce to the UK. Yes, EU imports have so far been allowed to cross the border without sanitary or phytosanitary checks – on all but the highest-risk products. But the London School of Economics estimates that the
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