Despite the current challenges, Summer Citrus from South Africa (SCSA) promises that high-quality fruit will be delivered weekly for the rest of the summer. Despite the recent heavy rains in the Western Cape and Citrusdal, where SCSA growers are mainly located,
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Availability of citrus for South African consumers has been affected by severe flooding in Citrusdal, where harvesting had to be suspended. read more

Morocco has a well-organized potato production structure but relies on imports of seed potatoes for it, as reported by EastFruit. Imports of seed potatoes had been growing in Morocco and reached their at least five-year high of 60,000 tonnes in the MY 2022/23! read more

Egypt shipped 19,400 tonnes of onions to the UK in the first nine months of the current MY 2022/23 (August-July). Such a volume has turned out to be almost record high for this period, but the final results of the current export season can be summed up just by the end of July, as reported by
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Unifruttti Group, the multinational Italian fruit supplier with its headquarters in Cyprus, has announced that Linda De Nadai has taken over from Gianluca Defendini as its new managing director for Europe and Africa. read more

On 19 June 2023, the Port of Rotterdam Authority, Gasunie, Invest International and Hyphen signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Namibian Implementation Authority Office, Namport and Nampower. read more

Morocco has a well-organized potato production structure but relies on imports of seed potatoes for it, as reported by EastFruit. Imports of seed potatoes had been growing in Morocco and reached their at least five-year high of 60,000 tonnes in the MY 2022/23! read more

The Unifrutti Group appoints Linda De Nadai to the role of managing director for Europe and Africa, taking over from Gianluca Defendini. The manager retains her current role as CEO of the African operations and will be responsible for integrating the two hemispheres by creating a single platform.
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A report published by British newspaper The Guardian in collaboration with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism says that security guards employed on a Del Monte pineapple plantation in Kenya allegedly assaulted and even killed people who apparently trespassed on the company’s property. read more

UK officials have announced its readiness to cut tariffs on products from Nigeria and other developing countries. According to a statement released on Monday by the British High Commission in Abuja, the step was to restore trading rules, save businesses and consumers millions of pounds each
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Kenya's agricultural produce quality assurance agency has opened talks with five countries, including the US and South Korea, over markets for Kenyan avocados to absorb an expected glut in coming months. The Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service aims to ensure the fruits planted under the
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Demand for grapes is high this year. "In fact, all year long. There was tremendous demand for Indian grapes, though those prices could've been a bit higher. The Egyptian season is also going unprecedentedly well. All the containers coming in are often already divided up," says Luciën de Wit of
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Corteva Agriscience has opened its first combined crop protection and seed research laboratory for the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions to drive innovation and develop sustainable solutions for farmers. The expansion of the research and
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After a Covid-enforced hiatus, South Africa’s favourite privately-organised avocado symposium returns to Tzaneen on 16 and 17 August, now bearing the name of the Allesbeste Symposium. read more

The Tarascon Court has issued a ruling against the Paysanne Confederation, which was aiming to prevent the sale of Moroccan fruits and vegetables in France’s markets. The motion raised by Paysanne sought to prevent IDYL, which is the company responsible for marketing Moroccan imports, from
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According to International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, it is important that Egypt take actions to protect against leakage of foreign reserves, because otherwise “it’s like putting water in a bucket that has holes”. read more

The EU imported 723,984 tons of oranges from third countries between September 2022 and May 2023, i.e. 31.6% or 173,700 tons more than in the same period of the 2021/22 campaign and 16.5% (102,400 tons) more than the average, according to the data from the latest Enhanced Monitoring on EU Citrus
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The second conventional reefer vessel from South Africa carrying summer citrus from the country’s Western Cape region to the US is due to sail today (20 June) after weather conditions improved after more than a week of heavy rain and flooding. read more

With the latest of a series of winter storms sweeping over the South African Western Cape region, citrus and other fruit growers are facing a difficult period of recovery. read more

The Egyptian onion season is ongoing in a context of rising demand and lower volumes than last year, driving up prices and presaging an increase in acreage next season. Mohammad Hassan, Sales Manager at On Trade, gives an overview of the season. read more