While Italy and Europe debate the regulations to eliminate packaging in the fresh produce sector, Alessandro Giunchi, the administrator of the Cesena wholesale market who visited Tokyo with a delegation of the Market network as part of a trip organized by the Emilia Romagna region, reports that
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Floods in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France have affected production of a variety of vegetables, including artichokes, cauliflowers, carrots, beetroot and celery, Libération reported. read more

A group of agricultural organisations in Southern Spain have called off a planned demonstration on Wednesday to demand better water infrastructure after opening a negotiation channel with the authorities. read more

Demand for fresh potatoes is very high, allowing farmers to further increase wholesale prices, according to EastFruit. read more

As part of an educational tour aimed at disseminating this model, secondary school pupils are informed about the benefits of sustainable O+G cultivation in solar greenhouses in the main European growing regions. read more

Kissabel’s European sales season has kicked into top gear, with harvesting of the red skin and fleshed Rouge variety in the UK, France, Italy, Germany and Switzerland now concluded. read more

For the first time, the states are negotiating a concrete text, the so-called "Zero Draft". For an effective plastics agreement, the WWF is calling for plastic products with a high risk of pollution and particularly problematic or toxic polymers and chemicals to be banned or their use to be prohibited.
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The Linea Verde, guided by the spirit of innovation that has always distinguished it, continues its evolutionary path and, as the first company in Italy, launches a new product concept within the IV gamma market: the Micro DimmidiSì potatoes in microwaveable bags, already washed and
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A new direct freight rail service has been initiated, connecting Spain's port of Barcelona with the French cities of Toulouse and Lyon. The container service, a collaboration between APM Terminals Railways Spain, Synergy, and Naviland Cargo, will offer four weekly connections without the need
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The Aegialia region in Greece faces a lemon crisis, with a drastic 50% reduction in yields due to unfavourable spring climatic conditions. Producers report slow citrus harvests in key production zones like Aegialia and Corinth. Triantafillos Lukopoulos of the Temenisa cooperative notes that
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October marked the end of the harvest season of the range of coloured-flesh apples in the UK, France, Italy, Germany and Switzerland. This while the harvest of the Rouge variety, distinctive for its red skin and flesh, the Kissabel® sales season in Europe kicks into top gear. read more

After the go-ahead of the Conferenza Stato-Regioni, the Minister for Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forests Francesco Lollobrigida announced that Masaf is ready to allocate €12 million for the pear and kiwifruit chains to counter the economic consequences caused by weather and natural
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The prices for popular citrus fruits, namely oranges and mandarins, have decreased in Ukraine. The average cost of mandarins has dropped from 1.57 to 1.25 EUR per kilogram. Clementine mandarins now cost an average of 2.95 EUR/kg in Ukraine, 0.10 EUR cheaper than in October. read more

In Europe, the edible mushroom sector has annual sales of more than 1.5 billion euro. Poland and the Netherlands are the largest European producers accounting for 50% of total European production. They are closely followed by Spain, which produces a total of 130,700 tons per year. read more

Lamb's lettuce. Plain or curly endive. rocket Spinach. Watercress. Kale. Lettuces could not be missing: Iceberg, Romana, Lollo, Batavia... These and more are the vegetables that are grown "without haste" in Florette, the company of Navarrese origin that was born more than 35 years ago to bring to
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According to data from the Association of Greek fruit and vegetable export companies, imports in Greece saw a significant surge in October, recording a 35.56% increase compared to the same month in 2022. read more

EastFruit analysts note that the most active fresh plum season is coming to an end in Moldova, and it is a good time to make some preliminary conclusions, which are extremely interesting. read more

Ahold Delhaize announces leadership transitions at Delhaize Serbia read more

With the harvest of the red-skinned and red-fleshed Rouge variety, the Kissabel® marketing season in Europe is now in full swing. In October in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, the harvest of the revolutionary range of apples with coloured flesh was completed in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany and Switzerland. read more

There is a lower availability of walnuts from Portugal. Tiago Mendes Pinto, commercial director of Portuguese walnut exporter Nogam, states that’s it’s not quite the season they had expected: “For the walnut season, we’re having a bad year in terms of the production. Volumes were
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