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Thrips control in roses: strategy, action and results
2024-03-01 00:00
The floriculture sector is of great importance worldwide. Colombia and Ecuador are the second and third largest exporters of flowers per year, accounting for 24% of the world market share and supplying major markets such as the United States, Russia, and the Netherlands (Chambers, 2024).
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"The raspberry market is very volatile and diverse every year"
2024-03-01 00:00
Bfruit is a grower´s organization of berries and kiwi, located in Portugal with some production all over the country. Filipa Bragança, Manager of Bfruit, states their aim is to increase production and add unique varieties to the offer of Portugal: "Our blueberry production is concentrated in
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Sweet potatoes from Brazil enjoy rising demand in Europe
2024-03-01 00:00
Demand for sweet potatoes from Brazil has grown in Europe. Cassiano Berol, from the Brazilian exporter Agrícola Plantar, explains that, "because of the complications arising from the drought in Europe, in particular in Spain and Portugal, which are both sweet potato producers, and the recent rains, the demand for sweet potatoes has increased in Europe.
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"With our platform we offer global manufacturers access to the Polish retail sector."
2024-03-01 00:00
Roger Boons enthusiasm for the Polish market is undeniable. He entered the fruit and vegetable sector in 1985 and quickly became active in Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall for the then New Zealand Kiwifruit Marketing Board (Zespri). For the past six years,
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Products from the Vesuvius in great demand abroad
2024-03-01 00:00
"We've almost completed the processing of the Friarielli vegetables preserved in oil as well as into a cream. The production has doubled this year thanks to the extraordinary demand from the foreign countries where we are present (United States, Spain, France and Germany). These markets demand
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From March 1, 2024, Gijs Baake will be the new International Commercial Manager at Royal Brinkman. After 6 years working in various positions, he is now responsible for managing Royal Brinkman's foreign branches outside Europe.
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Belarusian customs officers prevented the export to Russia of 300 tons of Polish pears
2024-03-01 00:00
Border officials along the Belarusian-Russian border are increasingly detecting attempts of illegal fruit and vegetable smuggling.
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For frozen food +10%: vegetables and potatoes on the podium
2024-03-01 00:00
The first data surveyed in Italy - even if only for the retail channel (that of household consumption) - show that in 2023, the frozen food sector confirmed its solidity by recording a substantial stability in consumption at home, which
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"As in an entropic system, bureaucracy in Italy will never decrease, on the contrary, it will increase because it employs a host of bureaucrats. It is useless to have illusions. What to do then? We must learn to 'ride it out', to take advantage of it, by informing ourselves and taking timely advantage of every opportunity
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Environmental Action Germany: "Federal government's decision torpedoes species protection and sustainable agriculture"
2024-02-29 13:00
Sascha Müller-Kraenner, Federal Managing Director of Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH), comments: "Under pressure from the agricultural lobby, the German government is sacrificing one of the most important minimum ecological requirements provided for in EU agricultural funding. The regulation that four per cent of agricultural
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A total of 31 Flemish exporters of fruit, vegetables, potatoes and fruit trees took part in this year's FRUIT LOGISTICA in Berlin, impressively showcasing the global orientation of the Flemish agricultural sector. The stand, now firmly established in Hall 27
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In Spain, many lemons are left on trees
2024-02-29 00:00
In Spain, the lemon market remains under pressure at origin, due to an increase in the harvest of Fino or Primofiore lemons. This figure only confirms the previous forecasts of Ailimpo, the Spanish trade association for lemons and grapefruits.
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"The early volumes of the Peruvian season have sparked a lot of interest in our blueberries".
2024-02-29 00:00
The Dutch sales office of North Bay Produce is entering its fourth year of activity. "We now have a staff of six people working in the Netherlands and England, which we should expand even further in the coming years," says Wilco Arts. North Bay is a cooperative
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Pistachio cultivation continues to expand in Spain, where the production is expected to increase significantly in the coming years. "Between 70,000 and 75,000 hectares are planted, but only about 10,000 hectares can be harvested for now, so the production is expected to increase eightfold in the
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Against a background of increasing consumption in Ukraine, farms are investing significantly in the development of the domestic market. This shift towards domestic consumption has been partly induced by logistical difficulties in the export of vegetables and restrictions
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Domestic storage potatoes continued to dominate the market, with French Agata and Dutch Victoria from Frankfurt complementing this segment. Early potatoes from Italy and Cyprus gained slightly in importance, not least due to the price difference. According to the Federal Office for Agriculture
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A large group of farmers from the areas of Berat and Fier have recently united to obtain floor prices in negotiations with collectors and exporters. The agricultural season has begun to yield the first greenhouse crops and cucumbers are now being harvested, but the prices for the growers reached
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Potatoes, how familiar are consumers with them?
2024-02-29 00:00
In the trolley of Italian consumers, a sack of potatoes is almost never missing. This is what emerges from the survey conducted last November by Potatoes Forever, a campaign co-financed by the European Union and promoted in Italy by UNAPA - Unione Nazionale tra le Associazioni dei Produttori di
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In the Spanish province of Almeria, the winter harvest of cucumbers is coming to an end. "Throughout the region, from Guainos to Motril, the harvests are almost complete and after a short interval of a couple of weeks, the new plantations will be started," says Juan Manuel Andújar, of La
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According to EastFruit analysts, in 2023 Ukraine became one of the top suppliers of frozen raspberries to the Canadian market for the first time in history. Ukraine increased exports by more than 50% compared to 2022 and became the sixth largest supplier in the ranking of the largest frozen
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