Regions

After more than 40 years in business, Patricia and Roland Gugger have decided to hand over their wholesale vegetable business called Gugger-Guillod SA. Eight vegetable producers from the region are jointly taking over the management of the Sugiez-based company. These are Adam Gemüse from
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This month FreshPlaza will focus on all things South African. read more

"The late spring is strongly fueling Brussels sprout demand. It even snowed in Scandinavia. That always benefits sales,"  says Dutch company Fresh2You's Menno Molenaar.  read more

“The last stretch of this citrus fruit campaign, which has been affected by various problems (fewer volumes, weather anomalies, drop in consumption) will be characterized by considerable prices due to the reduced availability of fruit. The pigmented variety campaign ended with demand exceeding
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CIV's latest strawberry innovations were presented at the recent North American Strawberry Symposium (NASS) held from 07-10 March 2023 in San Louis Obispo, California. CIV President Mauro Grossi explains: "During the Symposium our partner Idris
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Blueberry supplies out of Mexico are very tight currently. “In December and January, the market was really low so a lot of the people who grow them got discouraged and didn’t want to invest the money in their crop and they pruned their fields,” says Fernando M Garcia of Berry Sunny
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For 25 years now, Selin Frucht Ltd has been dedicated to the procurement and distribution of high-quality fruit and vegetables, to a large extent from its own production in Turkey. The internationally active company with locations in Herne and Antalya focuses on a wide range of products, whereby
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Like other Mediterranean countries, Tunisia is facing a severe drought that has compelled the Tunisian government to implement water-use quotas, increasing the price of water for agricultural use, and even restricting household access to tap water. read more

Spain is Brazil’s fifth-largest export market. The Iberian nation held a 2.9% share of Brazilian exports in 2022, the highest percentage since the start of the historical series in 1997. But according to Xiana Méndez, secretary of Spain’s commerce and head of ICEX España Exportación e
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Costa’s African Blue business has been operating in Morocco since 2007 and now has circa 465 hectares of farms coming from both own farms and third-party growers. read more

According to official information, the phytosanitary protocol for the export of Spanish almonds and persimmons to China was signed during the visit of the Spanish government president Pedro Sánchez to Beijing (week 13). read more

EastFruit analysts note that avocado keeps becoming more and more popular in Georgia. In 2014, the country imported only 40 tonnes – the number increased to 830 tonnes in 2022, and the annual import value exceeded $1 million for the first time. Import statistics for the first two months of
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“At the end of February 2023, the stocks of French apples were down compared to last year (-11%). With the exception of the Pink Lady, all varieties saw their stocks decrease. Prices are above those of 2021 and the five-year average. As the end of the marketing year approaches, pear stocks are
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Faced with a particularly delicate economic situation for the organic apple sector in Europe, the representative structures of the Italian and French business organisations wanted to engage collectively in a reflection on the future. read more

The drought is starting to bear fruit...but smaller. This is what Francesca tells Corriere di Bologna. Together with her partner they cultivate 17 hectares in Valsamoggia and were forced to transplant at night last August because the heat of the day did not allow them to work; read more

These days traceability is everything, whether it’s for the end customer to see the provenance of the product or to get right back to the source if there are health issues. Further, what producer, packer or supplier would not want to have every cost in the whole process from field to shelf
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Orogel, a leading Italian company in the production of fresh and frozen vegetables, expands its fleet withUlma Packaging, which boasts 20 years of experience in the food sector and is present in Italy with its branch in Gragnano Trebbiense (PC), one of 23 in the group. read more

Trade promotional body ZimTrade has stated that Zimbabwe’s citrus exports to the EU are likely to be affected by new pre-cooling requirements put in place by the bloc and also present opportunities to diversify markets, which will ensure continued exports for farmers in the subsector. The EU
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The retail data company Daltix collects current prices, price offers and product information on the full range of the largest supermarkets, drugstores and food delivery services every day. Within the scope of a current survey, the assortments throughout Germany - a total of over
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