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ARRA program answers Passion demand in grape market

Innovation and dedication are the core forces behind the creation of a great table grape, according to the team behind the ARRA breeding program. “We work tirelessly towards…

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Bart Nemegheer, De Aardappelhoeve, Belgium

“I think we'll have moved all our potatoes by season's end”

“The industrial potato market is finally slowly picking up. It seems supply and demand are somewhat in balance again. All these potatoes should have been moved by the end of…

STM BIO:

“Our goal goes beyond organic sales, we grow and market products and varieties from recognized exceptional terroir”

STM BIO specializes in the production and marketing of organic products from the Roussillon plateau. The company offers a wide and deep range of organic products including…

Start of the asparagus season:

First domestic and Greek shipments are coming onto the market

The 2021 asparagus season has definitely started. Parallel to the first arrivals from Greece, the first Bruchsal asparagus arrived at the regional wholesale markets on…

Fruit Cleaning Service offers alternative for soft fruit with a quality problem

Soft berries and strawberries that are too soft or have a mould problem, a container of blueberries with a cooling problem or raspberries whose shelf life is not optimal -…

'Soon 40,000 substrate bales in the mountains,' announced a producer

Drop in demand for Cardoncelli mushrooms, but plans are in place for the coming months

Not only is the request for Cardoncelli mushrooms decreasing these days, but also the demand for base cultivation substratum. "Usually, as spring approaches, the demand for…

United Seaways launches a Brexit busting route from Morocco to the UK

United Seaways has been planning the new direct line from Morocco to the UK for over 2 years and it will be now launched in 2021. The new service will be based out of the Port…

Antonio Agudo, of El Melonero: "We expect fewer volumes of Senegalese melons and watermelons"

Spain receives the first watermelons from Senegal

The Brazilian melon and watermelon campaign is drawing to a close in Spain, where the first seedless watermelons from Senegal have already started to arrive this week.…

Koen Merkus (Fresh Forward): "Weather severely affecting Spanish strawberry season"

"More and more European retailers want to sell Calinda under its variety name"

Spain was hit by icy weather at the beginning of the year. That's had a significant impact on their Calinda strawberry season. "The weather's been truly exceptional. The cold…

Fruit importer Fred Ringwald looks back on an average Spanish citrus season

"Large-caliber Powells are popular with the retailers"

The Spanish citrus campaign is now well into its second half. Volume offtake of clementines is gradually winding down. Meanwhile, the supply of Spanish table oranges is…

Special Australia / New Zealand

MAF RODA

Chris Bray - MAF RODA NZ

"Ease of integration and design means customers only need to deal with one company"

More and more companies are investing in robotics and automated packhouse machinery, this may be to tackle labour shortages or cope with growing production volumes. MAF RODA…

Global Focus Bananas

Robert Adams, President of One Banana Co.:

“From March 2020 to date, we have donated 1,248,900 bananas”

Banana company One Bananas has their own sustainable farms in Guatemala, Ecuador and Peru. Robert Adams, President of One Banana Co. says: “Late last year, eastern Guatemala…

Westfalia’s Mozambican litchi programme brings the sweet taste of success

In a victory for more than 200 smallholder growers, Westfalia Fruit is celebrating a bountiful 2020 litchi season in Mozambique.The returns from the 2020 bumper crop are…

Limpopo hot pepper grower looks to export

In their first year of planting chillies, Waltela Maree of Zandrivier Boerdery in Vaalwater, Limpopo, says the bumper crop of hot peppers has almost taken them by surprise.…

Deputy Director General of FAO will be present

First Southern Hemisphere Fresh Fruit Trade Congress- "Keeping the world supplied"

With the aim of bringing the fruit industries of the Southern and Northern Hemisphere closer together and to allow better planning for the coming year, SHAFFE…

Nigel Jenney - FPC comments on Chancellor’s budget announcement

"Without guaranteed financial support some wholesale fresh produce businesses won’t be there to supply their customers when they want to re-open"

Commenting on the Chancellor’s budget announcement today, Nigel Jenney, Chief Executive of the Fresh Produce Consortium said: “FPC welcomes the extension of…

Miguel Gonzalez, MG Fruit, the Netherlands:

"Watermelon prices have been great for weeks, pineapple market remains worrisome"

The current pineapple market isn't wild. "In fact, it's stuck on repeat. Good sizes (5, 6, 7) go for around €8. The smaller sizes are selling for €7 to €7.50.…

Scotland is sitting on a store of potatoes

According to the latest Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board estimate, almost 50% of the Scottish potato crop was still in grower-held stores at the…

Wouter Snippe, WeGrowOrganic:

“We want to be able to supply Dutch organic onions year-round”

There's a lot of construction underway at WeGrowOrganic in the Netherlands. This company supplies products like organic onions and potatoes. It's building a new processing and…

Demand for Kissabel® outstrips supply

Kissabel®, a series of apple varieties with red or pink flesh, offers an increasing number of European buyers a chance to boost their sales. Some suppliers are now reporting…

Dennis Blankendaal, Frysk Witlof:

"Moderate chicory prices on the market, but confident of an upturn"

Current chicory market prices are dismal. "I expected them to be much better," says Dennis Blankendaal of Frysk Witlof in the Netherlands. He's among the largest chicory…

JBT Corporation acquires label inspection/verification systems provider

JBT Corporation, a global technology solutions provider to segments of the food and beverage industry, has acquired AutoCoding Systems Ltd, a provider of…

Domestic Moldovan grape prices up due to Romanian demand

In the last week of February, the wholesale price for Moldova variety grapes increased by an average of 1 lei/kg up to 9-12 lei/kg ($0.51-0.68/kg) on the…

Restrictions in the hospitality industry hinder the campaign in Aragon

"Black truffle producers were unable to cover production costs this year"

The president of the Association Truffle Producers and Collectors from Aragon, David Royo, said this year has been very complicated for the black truffle due…

Researchers develop an AI system that allows greenhouses to operate without human intervention

This technology is a step forward for future space missionsOne of the challenges to colonize other planets and establish human settlements, starting with the…

The Minister of Agriculture, Luis Planas, visited the Murcian cooperative Hoyamar

"The products of Murcia are fundamental for Spain, the orchard of Europe"

A few days ago, the Spanish Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, visited the facilities of the Murcian cooperative Hoyamar, together with…

Switzerland: Grob Gemüsebau fights for geothermal energy project

Pilot project with thermal water to be approved for the long term

Water is necessary for vegetables to thrive. Grob Gemüse AG in Schlattingen has yet yet another function for water: thermal water from deep underground is used to heat their…

A new name on the fruit stage: Vrugteboom

“All of the reactions we’ve had from our clients across the world have been positive, and sometimes they ask us what the name means,” says Stijn Koesen, managing director of…

US: 2021 organic apple and pear import program kicks off

This year Bridges Produce celebrates 15 years of importing organic apples and pears from South America. “We have grown our Southern Hemisphere apple and pear program steadily…

New Zealand expects largest ever kiwifruit harvest

New Zealand’s 2021 kiwifruit harvest has kicked off with the first commercial crop being picked this morning in Gisborne and more kiwifruit to be picked across New Zealand…

Remembering the “Mango King”

RCF Distributors, LLC is saddened to report the sudden loss of our dear friend, colleague and paramount sales agent, Alan Alvarez, who passed away on Saturday, January 30th,…

Banana growers call for urgent Government assistance

Australian banana growers who have lost up to 100 per cent of their crop to cyclonic winds are calling for urgent assistance from the Queensland and Federal  Governments.In a devastating…

Virtual town hall

How PMA helps increase diversity and inclusion in the produce industry

The discussion at this week’s PMA virtual town hall centered around diversity and inclusion, and the steps that PMA has taken to support members in increasing the diversity…

Growing regions and varieties of mangoes shifting

Volumes and varieties of mango supplies are beginning a transition from Peru to Mexico. “Peru is shipping Kent mangoes and arrivals from Peru are expected until the second…

A couple of Brazilian lawyers quit their jobs in Belo Horizonte to grow shiitake in Nova Lima

They are both lawyers. She had a company in Belo Horizonte, where she worked with her mother. He also worked in the state capital of Minas Gerais; in a large law firm. Gisele…

Across global product offering

Tropical grower embraces shelf-life extending technology

Hazel Technologies Inc., a USDA-funded company providing new technologies to extend the shelf life of produce and fight food waste, and AMR Agro, a tropical grower in the…

NZ: Moving tomatoes into next-gen tech

Waybeyond has launched a purpose-built mobile Crop Registration app for tomato growers, digitizing a time-consuming manual data process. “Those in the tomato business will be…

Vanguard South Africa

Update on South Africa’s apple and pear crops

"South Africa’s main apple and pear production areas in the Western region had an excellent winter season with ample rain, snow and cold units," says Neil…

Driscoll’s Miles and Brie Reiter discuss past, present and future of their business

In a recent interview with Food Tank, father-daughter J. Miles Reiter and Brie Reiter Smith of Driscoll’s, the world’s largest berry company, spoke about…

Rosselkhoznadzor allows imports of apples, tomatoes from some Azerbaijani enterprises

The Russian Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance has allowed apple imports from eight Azerbaijani enterprises and tomatoes produced by…

Agricola Famosa and Citri & Co join forces to become a world benchmark in the fresh fruit market

The Brazilian company Agrícola Famosa, the world's largest melon and watermelon producer and exporter, and the Spanish group Citri & Co, the largest European…

Shipping route launched to export Egyptian crops to Russia

Egyptian shipping company Kadmar Shipping Co. has announced the launch of the Russian Leader Line for transporting Egyptian agricultural crops between…

Kazakhstan is looking for $9.5 billion in agricultural investments by 2025

Kazakh Prime Minister Askar Mamin has stated that the Kazakh government plans to attract 4 trillion tenge (US$9.57 billion) of investments in its agriculture…

In the same period, Spanish tomato sales to the EU fell by 21.68%

Moroccan tomato sales to the European Union have increased by 26.38% in the last 5 years

Moroccan tomato sales to the European Union have been increasing year after year while the Spanish tomato has been losing ground in the community market.…

Under pressure to find new markets after Chinese pineapple ban

Taiwan will export large shipment of pineapples to Australia in May

Taiwan's Council of Agriculture (COA) has announced that it has reached an agreement to export 6,000 kilograms of pineapples to Australia in May. The…

PlayStation

Sony files patent for ‘banana’ as PS5 controller

A new PlayStation patent appears to have a literal banana as a PS5 controller. GamesIndustry.biz has noted that Sony has recently filed a patent for this new controller…

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Dreamstime

Sainsbury’s plans to cut an additional 500 jobs

Mercadona has shared profits with its entire workforce

Online shopping, private brands boost Israel's Shufersal profitShufersal, Israel’s largest supermarket chain, reported a 2.6% rise in quarterly profit, boosted by a jump in…

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