The Barcelona wholesale market Mercabarna has seen its exports of fruit and vegetables double since it set up the Mercabarna-Export Cluster in 2013. In 2014, companies house within the market sold 1.7m tonnes of produce, of which 25 per cent was exported, mainly to France and Italy and some
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Nolan Transport based, in Rosslare, Co. Wexford, is one of Wexford’s leading employers; more than 1,000 staff are working there, and it is operating over 2,000 trailers and 700 trucks. It has been able to grow massively due to Brexit. read more

Since 2011, Enza Zaden has conducted business in Central America as an export region managed by Enza Zaden Export B.V. in the Netherlands and supported by a dedicated regional sales team. This approach has fostered strong relationships with key dealers and driven substantial year-over-year sales
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This year, the Juliet variety continues to grow, with a 20% increase thanks to young orchards coming into production. While the production from the Rhône valley and the south of France is slightly below potential for the 2023 campaign, the harvests in other French regions are in line with the
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Prices rose by an average of 10%, purchases fell by 8%. This, in short, is the snapshot of the first half of 2023 on fresh fruit and vegetables taken by the Cso Italy Market Observatory on the basis of data from the GfK Italia panel. From January to June 2023, the following were purchased
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Despite the restrictive turn of the central banks' monetary policies and the moderate wage dynamics, inflation in Italy remains high (+5.3% on September 2022according to preliminary ISTAT estimates, slightly down on a monthly basis) and there are signs of difficulties in the
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"Consumer demand for mushrooms is slowly reaching normal levels again. The post-pandemic market has been somewhat disappointing. Organic mushrooms fared slightly worse, but there, too, demand is picking up," Warmolt Boer, member of LTO Netherlands' Mushroom group, begins, reflecting on the
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Farms are breathing, and from the Agea come simplifications of the procedures needed to speed up payments. From 16 October, the new system of advances in agriculture was activated, with the possibility of disbursing 2.4 billion until 30 November, which will involve 722 thousand
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"With just over 15 days to go until the start of the Anti-Inflation Quarterly, we can be satisfied for several reasons, which indicate that we are on the right track in the fight against high living costs,
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Fruit and vegetable consumption at the end of the first half of 2023 confirmed the negative trend already recorded at the end of the first quarter and in the following months. CSO Italys Market Observatory reports this on the basis of data collected by the GfK Italia panel. read more

Ukrainian blueberries increased their presence on European shelves and maintained a better price than last year in the domestic market of Ukraine. The President of the Ukrainian Horticulture Association (UHA) Taras Bashtannik, spoke about this in a SEEDS commentary. read more

The lower supply of Latin American pineapples in Europe is causing prices to remain higher than usual in the Spanish market, at a time, after the summer, when consumption usually drops a little. This year, the supply during the Christmas campaign is expected to be limited, and that's when
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Last Thursday, a new pilot store of the O’frais chain opened its door in Saint-Eulalie, near Bordeaux. Specialized in fresh and local produce, O’frais wants to join forces with the Anges bakery chain, which currently counts 450 sales outlets in France. read more

The summer is finally over and as the temperatures drop, the focus now turns to a new variety of vegetables, says Tania Silva, sales manager for Rush Farms Portugal: “The time has come to switch from summer vegetables to autumn and winter ones. Although the high temperatures that have been
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"There was good demand for leaf mandarins at the beginning of the season. Customers were keen to sell the first of those and found eager demand. That had stagnated slightly, but the current colder weather is clearly boosting demand for Spanish citrus," says Erik-Jan Thur of the Dutch company
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Ukrainian blueberries increased their presence on European shelves and maintained a better price than last year in the domestic market of Ukraine. The President of the Ukrainian Horticulture Association (UHA) Taras Bashtannik, spoke about this in a SEEDScommentary. “If we break it down into
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Due to the effects of climate change, resulting in an extended growing season, growing sweet potatoes in Estonia might become a possibility. University of Life Sciences researcher Eve Runno-Paurson: "Only 50-60 years ago, we could not have talked about growing sweet potatoes in Estonia. As a
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Ontario-based indoor hydroponic strawberry farm, Ever Tru Farms, is set to debut in the US market with a new venture in Kentucky. After acquiring AppHarvest's vast 30-acre berry farm in Somerset, Kentucky, Bosch Growers, based in the Netherlands, will partner with Ever Tru Farms to distribute
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50 years of growth and innovation in the sign of cooperation and support to people and the community: this is the story of PAC 2000A, the first Cooperative in terms of economic size among the 5 of the Conad System (with a 35.6% share of the Group's total turnover in Italy), which
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The most important event for the European market of frozen fruits, berries and vegetables took place last week in Cologne, Germany, EastFruit reports. Our colleague, FAO international consultant and a manger of Tiferet company from Moldova, Iuliia Tymoshenko, took an active part in the expo and
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