China: Alibaba’s e-grocer Freshippo deepens ties with overseas food firms read more

The transition from the winter to the summer season is certainly challenging for a department manager in the large-scale retail trade, because in a short time the assortment is overturned and it is easy to make mistakes when setting up the fruit and vegetable counter; read more

Hundreds of people involved in ensuring Australians have access to their favourite yellow fruit have met in Cairns for the 2023 Australian Banana Industry Congress. read more

Amidst increasing supply from the Southern Hemisphere, key world markets of the US, Europe and Asia are showing a strong demand for citrus from Peru, especially seedless easy peelers. This is according to Lavesh Mirpuri, Commercial Manager at Consorcio de Productores de Fruta (CPF), a Peruvian
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Fresh products (bread, charcuterie, eggs, meat, fish and seafood, fruit and vegetables) will account for 43% of annual food spending by Spanish households in 2022 (2 out of every 5 euros spent), with a total investment of 35,625 million euros. This is shown by the
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The season for cherries in the Northern Hemisphere is off to a positive start, depending on the country, whilst in other markets it has just come to a close. In the Netherlands, the cherry season kicked off with high-quality Spanish cherries, while the supply and demand remain balanced. The
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Morocco's agricultural export season is nearing its end, closing in July with the watermelon and grape calendars, and the last volumes of vegetables nearly sold out. It has been a memorably complicated season, but for Mustapha Mohattan, commercial director of the exporter Fructimoor, "the
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In the Netherlands, the late spring affected BerryBrothers' soft fruit production. "Last year, we started harvesting greenhouse redcurrants as early as the beginning of May. Now, we won't start until early next week, so two weeks later," begins Nijs van Zuilen. "The farm workers were especially
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This summer, there will be a lack of apricots, cherry plums, and early sweet cherries. The harvest of plums, cherries, and late sweet cherries is also uncertain as it depends on the weather in the second half of May. read more

"On April 21, our first batch of lychees arrived in the Netherlands by air. Up to now, we have exported 4 batches of lychees to Europe this year. Since early May, lychees exported to Australia, the United States, Canada, Panama and other places have been shipped one after another," said Mr. Lin
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The intense plan of promotional-communication and marketing activities that Wonderful® has activated as 'Official Pistachio of the Giro d'Italia 2023' has been in full swing for days now. read more

When possible, Danes prefer local, sustainably produced food. Add Copenhagen's luxury restaurants to that, and you have the ideal breeding ground for a company like Funga Farm: a small-scale urban farm that grows organic, fresh, high-quality specialty mushrooms and supplies them exclusively to
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The availability of Spanish watermelons is now at full capacity. Plenty of produce is available for export from the early growing regions. With increasing presence in the trade, demand for the summer fruit is picking up. read more

A direct, containerised shipping service linking Pakistan and Russia is scheduled to commence operations later this month. The service will be creating enhanced trade access for Pakistani products in the Russian market. read more

There are numerous comments from trade associations on the flood that so tragically hit Emilia-Romagna. We report those of Cso Italy, Coldiretti, Confael and Confeuro; read more

The first edition of Organic Week, a national organic promotion initiative that AssoBio, in cooperation with FederBio, ISMEA and FIPE (Italian Federation of Public Establishments), has organised for this 2023, is about to kick off. The Organic Week, which this year will be in its first
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Starting with the opening of the first Lidl shop in Ludwigshafen-Mundenheim in 1973, the food retailer is now one of the leading retailers, largest employers and best-known brands in Germany. This development has always been based on a clear focus,
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Aiming to prevent further dumping on the South African Customs Union (Sacu) market, the International Trade Administration Commission (Itac) has introduced substantial import duties on imported frozen potato chips from three European countries. The final duties against Belgium, the Netherlands
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The table grape season started about ten days ago in Egypt, one month earlier than last year. This represents a commercial opportunity for Egyptian exporters, but volumes are directly impacted as well. Salem Ghonim, a consultant to the production of grapes in Egypt, comments on the situation. read more

Currently in its early stages, the grape table season in Lebanon is shaping up well, both in terms of production and marketing, according to Moussa Zgheib, general manager of the Lebanese grape grower Bamo Zgheib. read more