Gautier Semences offers a complete range of melon varieties, particularly adapted to the three main production basins in the southwest, center-west and southeast of France. All of these varieties meet resistance and productivity criteria. “We wanted all our varieties to be resistant to the
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The domestic food retail trade is in the midst of a product range restructuring process. The marketing of domestic alternative edible potatoes has been completed. To bridge the gap until sufficient Austrian Heurige are available, the food retail industry has resorted to alternative goods from
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"We have pears on offer all year round. Through a supplier called Sandri, who grows pears himself, we will obtain our goods from Italy. As soon as the Italian season is over, we purchase overseas produce from Argentina and Chile, via the same supplier. The next season for Italian produce will
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The dull, wet spring weather has delayed the start of the strawberry season by seven days. Over the next few weeks, Swiss producers will harvest more than 1000 tonnes of the sweet fruit each week, according to the Swiss Fruit Association. A good harvest is expected in the second half of the year.
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Smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe benefit from the space that opened up in the export pea sector as large-scale commercial farmers in Zimbabwe switched to blueberries. read more

The newest GLOBALG.A.P. Community Member, Belgium-based Van Dijk Foods, is a produce importer and distributor. The company is part of the greater Achiel De Witte Group, which is also based in Belgium. The Achiel De Witte Group comprises approximately 30 individual branches, allowing it to
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The cherry campaign is off to a difficult start in Italy, but also in Spain, where in the Valle del Jerte community in Extremadura, production has been severely damaged by the heavy rains that have hit the area renowned for the fruit. As we read in Valencia
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The energy crisis that started with the war in Ukraine has had many repercussions on vegetable crops using artificial light in central/northern Europe. The gap was not filled by other producer countries and resulted in an imbalance on the international markets. In addition, in the tomato
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Benoit Labouille started growing sweet potatoes in 2015, wanting to offer a product from France to supermarkets and wholesalers. Initially, the producer only supplied the local market, but the need to expand sales has led him to turn to supermarkets as well. Today, Benoit Labouille owns almost
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Domestic strawberries clearly dominated the markets. Dutch goods came second. Lots from Greece, Poland, Belgium, Italy, and Spain arrived only sporadically and were all of a merely supplementary nature. According to the BLE, deliveries from the domestic market, now from the open ground as well,
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There has been a change in management at the online supermarkets Knuspr (Germany) and Gurkerl (Austria). Carolin Kracmer, Marketing Director, Stephan Lüger, Commercial Director, and Lorenz Diederichs will jointly take over the management of the Rohlik Group subsidiaries with immediate effect,
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Night frosts and unfavourable weather conditions during the flowering phase have led to a disappointing cherry harvest in many areas this year, according to the Dutch Fruit Growers' Association (NFO). read more

Law enforcement officials in Spain and Poland have taken down an international drug trafficking organization, suspected of bringing vast amounts of drugs into Poland, hidden in shipments of fruits and vegetables. read more

“Spain and some producing areas of Mediterranean Europe are experiencing the emergence of pistachio, but, compared to California, we are like a drop of water in the ocean. There are synergies that we should all take advantage of. If we want to maintain the current profitability, we have to
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The EU Commission has dropped the infringement proceedings against Germany for non-compliance with the EU Nitrate Directive. The Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) has announced that the threat of very high fines is now a thing of the past. read more

Italy authorises the field experimentation of Tea (Assisted Evolution Techniques), of which genome editing is the best known. The green light was given with the approval of an amendment to the Drought DL in the Senate's VIII and IX Joint Commissions. An essential tool to target the
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As the summer approaches, all eyes turn to what is a busy cherry season across Europe. read more

In the first two months of this year alone, Bulgaria imported more than 55,000 tons of fresh vegetables. In the same period, the import of fresh fruit in Bulgaria was nearly 66,000 tons. For these first two months of the year, the import of vegetables increased by nearly 6 percent compared to
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Peel Ports Group has announced an investment of approximately US$34.5 million in a new facility at the Port of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. The company's largest single storage investment in the current year aims to a nearly 22,300m² warehouse, which is expected to be built at Peel Port's
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