The new Italian pumpkin season has started a few weeks late and, from initial estimates, is expected to be less available than in 2022, due to the adverse weather events that have hit our peninsula; read more

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The Italy-America Chamber of Commerce (IACC) has signed a partnership with the National Grocers Association, the association that brings together independent American supermarkets, to bring the excellence of Italian agri-food products to independent supermarkets in the United States
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EastFruit experts in Moldova spoke to farmers and representatives of fruit growers’ organizations in Moldova regarding the updated apple harvest outlook for 2023. It seems that due to the very hot second half of summer the outlook for fresh apple harvest in Moldova needs to be revised
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In late 2022, factories in China's well-known potato cultivation region stood ready to be equipped with a Grisnich receiving, cleaning, and sorting line. This project's delivery scope comprises as many as 37 sea containers shipped from the Netherlands to China. The plant will eventually process
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For months, we have been dealing with the invasion of the blue crab, which, due to its voracity, is wreaking havoc on fish farms in the Mediterranean Sea. In Italy, unfortunately, we now have to deal with another alien species, considered among the most invasive in the world: the
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The Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food (MAPA) presented to the Council of Ministers the 2023 Report on Drought Management. In general, the 2022/23 hydrological year has been a dry year in the whole of
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Last September, Piet Schotel of the Center for the Promotion of Imports from developing countries (CBI) and Fresh Publishers manager, Pieter Boekhout, took a work trip to Moldova. They visited some 15 fruit growers in this small European country, wedged between Ukraine and Romania. You can read
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After being detected in Israel last year, Diaphorina citri has now been identified in Cyprus, which should force Brussels to investigate the origin of the outbreak as well as finance and supervise eradication measures. The Asian psylla is more worrying than the African Trioza erytreae, already
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Fruit Logistica, the world’s leading fresh produce industry trade fair, has recorded a major increase in requests for exhibition space at its upcoming event. And tickets to visit the annual show, which takes place on 7-9 February 2024, are now on sale. read more

Two companies from the eastern Spanish province of Castellón – Grupo Clasol and Cooperativa San Alfonso – have joined forces to create one of the region’s leading suppliers of citrus and stonefruit. read more

The watermelon and melon campaign is drawing to a close, with the latter marked by high trends. With the Sicilian production, that of peaches and nectarines is also coming to a close. All the late varieties of plums are now present, with the latest entries, President, Settembrina and Fortuna. The
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A violent earthquake struck Morocco shortly before midnight on Friday, September 8. “The most violent the region has seen in a century,” says the Moroccan National Institute of Geophysics. The quake was felt throughout the country, and even in neighboring Algeria, Mauritania, Spain,
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The summit of heads of state and government of the G20 group, which brings together the countries with the greatest weight in the world economy, concluded on Sunday. In the fruit and vegetable sector, the G20 fruit and vegetable export group is made up of: Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy,

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Riccardo Martini, managing director of Dcs Tramaco, describes to IFN a very lively domestic import phase due to the weather conditions and the difficulties in domestic supply due to the flooding in Romagna last May. read more

Hamburg-based Dole Europe GmbH (not to be confused with Dole Europe BV, based in the Netherlands) has added a new type of home-compostable sticker to the bananas it sells in northern Europe. read more

The retailer works with grape growers mainly from Murcia and Alicante. Among the main companies with which Carrefour collaborates are Murcia-based Agronativa and Moyca Grapes; Alicante-based Frutas Jopami, Uvasdoce, Palacios Roca and SAT Betisan and
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According to EastFruit, Ukrainian growers of fresh fruits and berries continue to expand to the most demanding world markets in extremely difficult conditions of the Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine, Everyone in the fresh produce business understands how difficult it is to get
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Incredible prices for vegetables in Ukraine began to decline rapidly. Some farmers managed to make good money from this, while others decided to make vegetable growing almost the main direction of the economy. read more