Asia & Oceania

Asia’s total fresh fruit imports declined in 2022 on the back of lower volumes from key origins as suppliers struggled to keep pace with market demand. read more

Turkey’s total cherry production in 2023/24 is forecast at 900,000 tons, which is 8 per cent higher than in 2022/23, due to favourable weather and soil conditions. According to a USDA report, as of early August 2023, cherry exports had reached 75,000 tons, and are on track to surpass the
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The Spring 2023 edition of Produce Plus Magazine is now live on the Produce Plus app – available via the App Store, Google Play or on your desktop. read more

Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has called for comment on an application from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) to permit food from a disease-resistant genetically modified (GM) banana. read more

As the Bebnissi Family Gardens company said, this year, 25 hectares of pear varieties Abat fetel, Santa Maria, Conference, and Williams Red will be planted in the territories of the former experimental and leading fruit enterprise in the USSR next to Kareli, Shida Kartli region. The garden will
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This year’s NZ kiwifruit campaign has been a challenging one due to poor pollination, wind, flooding, hail, and cyclones. Speaking to the New Zealand Herald, New Zealand Kiwifruit Growers Incorporated chief executive Colin Bond said that the last two years have been “our equivalent to the
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Copefrut, a leading Chilean fruit exporter with over 50 years of global experience, announced today it is formally adopting the brand name BoBan (波板) for the Chinese market. The moniker BoBan originated organically from local trade partners due to Copefrut’s previous logo resembling a ping
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South Africa’s Custom Plum Company has said it had an exciting year in US and now also hoped sufficient progress would be made soon to export its products to China. read more

Kiwifruit growers and exporters from around the world gathered in Curicó, Chile last week for the 42nd Convention of the International Kiwifruit Organization” (IKO). read more

Legacy Packing Australia has announced the appointment of Brett Jackson as the company’s new chief executive. read more

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She was meticulous in her extensive agenda, which was more like a grand tour, in which I visited a cheese factory, a dairy, a cider cellar, several Romanesque churches and the theatre in which she made her debut as an actress. In the evening there was plenty of cider in the village of
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In southern and northern Lebanon, on plots no higher than 500m above sea level, avocado cultivation is undergoing a remarkable revolution. Annually, that acreage grows by about 200 hectares and yields by around 2,500 tons. Yet, the extraordinary thing is that one man is driving the expansion of
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has published a report on global trade in stone fruits, with particular attention given to fruits produced in Turkey and their import into Russia. Currently, Russia continues to be the leading international importer of peaches and nectarines, accounting for
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Thai Sade is the founder of tech firm BloomX, a company that has found a way to mechanically pollinate crops in a similar way to bees. "We are not replacing bees... but rather, offering more efficient pollinating methods to farmers, and reducing the dependence on commercial honeybees," Sade says. read more

Not just any cabbage'. Crokii proposes itself as the differential alternative in the traditional cabbage market. And it does so thanks to the Japanese genetics of Takii's parent company, which gives it a crunchy texture, a freshness that "revitalises the senses" and a sweet taste that
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Copefrut, a Chilean fruit exporter with over 50 years of global experience, announced today it is formally adopting the brand name BoBan (波板) for the Chinese market. read more

If Ukraine's international relations with certain Asian countries change, the export of Red Delicious apples could significantly increase. This opinion was expressed in an interview by Vladyslav Makarenko, co-owner of the "Makosad" farm (Chernivtsi region). Currently, Red Delicious apples make
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EastFruit analysts have repeatedly drawn attention to record high prices for grapes in Uzbekistan this season. After a short pause in the first week of September, prices for these products resumed rising. Over the past two weeks, wholesale prices for the seedless Kishmish grape variety have
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Visitors from Australia can save up to 18 per cent*  on the price of entry to Fruit Logistica, the world’s leading fresh produce trade fair. read more