Moldova’s apple exports have surged in January 2024, reaching over 14 thousand tons and $7.9 million in value, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry of the Republic of Moldova (MAIA). This is a remarkable improvement from the previous month, when the country exported only
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The Ukrainian carrot market in Ukraine is facing a slump in prices, according to EastFruit analysts. Farmers are currently offering carrots at 8-12 UAH/kg ($0.21-0.32/kg), which is about 17% less than last week. The producers blame the oversupply of carrots from local farms for the price drop. read more

The following is the text of the message from the 'Coordinamento riscatto agricolo' (Agricultural Redemption Coordination) on the tractor protest underway throughout Italy. The message was read by Amadeus on the Sanremo stage during the fourth evening of the Festival. read more

Spreafico is relying on Greece for supplies of green kiwis and other fruits. In view of the difficulties in the sector in Italy - such as adverse weather conditions and the emergence of new diseases, which are forcing producers to focus more and more on yellow kiwi fruit - the company is turning to
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TOMRA Food unveiled its new streamlined and optimised organisational structure in Berlin, presented its sorting, sizing and packaging solutions, and launched three new AI-based sorting and sizing solutions. read more

Some of Moldova’s canning factories have resumed to accept last year’s apples at the prices they were in autumn 2024. The deliveries in January and February are not very large, only a few dozen tons per day, according to AgroExpert . However, the activity is expected to increase from March
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The Ukrainian carrot market in Ukraine is facing a slump in prices, according to EastFruit analysts. read more

Zucchiolo, the new vegetable product from Unica Fresh in Spain, has won this year’s Fruit Logistica Innovation Award. read more

According to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the bush berry harvest in 2023 will correspond to the average harvest volume of the last six years despite the year-on-year decline. read more

Awarded the Flia at Fruit Logistica 2024: the winner is a new product, Zucchiolo from Spain's Unica Fresh. The Mirical packaging from the Dutch company Koppert then won the Flia Technology, launched for the first time this year. A total of around 70
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From 7 to 9 February, Berlin (Germany) is hosting Fruit Logistica – a major event for the global agro-industry. This international exhibition, which has been held in Berlin since 1993, showcases the entire spectrum of the chain: from the production of fresh products to the final consumer. read more

After its debut in 2023, the 'Dolce Passione' Consortium presented the 'Dolce Passione' watermelon to international buyers at Fruit Logistica in Berlin. The presentation took place yesterday afternoon in the Sala Eventi Italy by Consortium President Roberto Castello (Ortofrutta
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Moldova’s apple exports have surged in January 2024, reaching over 14 thousand tons and $7.9 million in value, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry of the Republic of Moldova (MAIA). This is a remarkable improvement from the previous month, when the country exported only
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Every year, on 10 February, we celebrate World Legume Day. For this occasion, established by the FAO in 2016, Bonduellehas drawn up a framework to analyse the habits, preferences and motivations that lead Italians to increasingly consume legumes. read more

The agricultural sector in Almeria in unity and coordination announced the launch of a calendar of demonstrations. Throughout Spain, more than 20 demonstrations have been called and, despite the fact that we are in the middle of the horticultural campaign, we will be demonstrating this February. read more

According to the EastFruit, the Ukrainian potato market has seen a sharp drop in trade activity. An increase in the supply of potatoes has driven down the prices in this sector. Farmers who had been raising potato prices almost every week since mid-October 2023 are now forced to lower them. As
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Dole Italia, a leading company in the production and distribution of high-quality fresh fruit, announces the acquisition of new spaces within the Centro Agroalimentare di Roma, the largest food market in Central Italy, to implement the company's strategic lines
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Morocco restored its banana imports in 2023 after a significant slump in the previous year, reports EastFruit. By August 2023, Morocco has already imported more bananas than in the whole of 2022, when the global trade of this product faced a severe crisis due to natural disasters, adverse
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SanLucara Fruit Logistica 2024 presented some novelties. "We are launching heart-shaped packages with different products, the blueberry, strawberry, cherry tomato, grape, which will be available all year round and especially during festivities," Erminio Colombini reports,
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Potager City is a new greengrocer concept developed by French retail giant Carrefour, which in 2020 teamed up with a Lyon-based start-up of the same name to create a new brand for city-dwellers who want to eat healthier. read more