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DeccanEdibles

Indian company diversifies into seedless watermelon for premium retailers

DeccanProduce, having supplied and exported fresh table grapes, pomegranates, mangoes and fruit pulps from India to Europe, CIS countries, the Middle and Far East, is now…

Turkish cherries could still be shipped to China this season

“It’s my hope the issues surrounding the Chinese markets will be fixed soon”

The Turkish cherry season is coming up soon, and there’s still no certainty regarding the Chinese market. Turkish officials are in discussion with their Chinese counterparts…

Chilean fruits orchard badly damaged by the heavy rainfall

Modified atmosphere packaging essential when shipping to far off markets

In the past few days, the Guangzhou Jiangnan wholesale market has gradually recovered but is still moving very slowly. Despite this, more than 3,000 containers full of…

Turkish apple season coming to an end

“India and Far East have been strong importers of apples this year”

India and the Far Eastern countries have been strong importers of their apples and contracts are already being put in place for the next season. With the current season coming…

"We are working hard to develop a peeling machine with a great price-quality ratio"

As the labor cost is rising, food processing factories often experience labor shortages. This situation has only grown worse during the pandemic. In addition to the labor…

In any growing location in the world

“WeatherAsset works for any crop, providing access to 20 year historical climatologies, daily updates"

For fresh produce businesses, increasing weather variability is a growing area of uncertainty - presenting risks to crop productivity and quality, impacting established…

Cambodian exports to China up 8% in 2020

Cambodia's exports to the world’s second-largest economy surged more than 8 per cent in value to $1.086 billion last year. In 2019, it posted US$1.004 billion.…

Durians are the main fruit import in terms of value

China's fruit imports exceed $10 billion for the first time

According to a report by the China Chamber of Commerce for the Import and Export of Food, Native Products, and Animal By-products, China's customs statistics…

Gansu "cloud" offers opportunities for cooperation between Lanzhou companies and Malaysian traders

Lanzhou in Gansu and Malaysia recently organized the joint Malaysia-China (Lanzhou) Online Agricultural Trade Forum. There were two sets of activities…

Exports of Thai fruits to China grew 39% in 2020

China is Thailand's largest fruit export market. Thailand exports more than 20 varieties to China, among which, durian, mangosteen, and longans have the…

Special Asia

SancoPack steering over 100 containers of mangoes in 2021 preserved by LytoFresh™

Lytone Enterprise, Inc. announced a partnership with SancoPack, a company providing solutions for growers and exporters of fresh produce from Vietnam for over 20 years. As…

Global Focus Organics

Organic food provider adds Fairtrade organic mangoes to portfolio

Organto Foods Inc. an integrated provider of organic and value-added organic fruits and vegetables, announced that after a successful market test, it has added Fairtrade and…

Unseasonal rain frustrates Indian growers

The unseasonal rain that swept over large parts of Maharashtra on Thursday evening has affected a large number of growers. They claim this rain will affect the…

Bengal Cabinet allows cold storages to buy 1 million tons of potatoes

Predicting a bumper potato harvest this season, the West Bengal Cabinet has decided to allow cold storage owners to purchase at least 1 million tons of tuber…

Punjab: ‘Mushroom King’ grows 200 tons using organic compost

Sanjeev Singh from Punjab started growing mushrooms from organic compost in 1992, eventually growing hundreds of tons of the produce, which earned him the…

Andhra Pradesh government to supply fruit cover tech and ripening chambers

State government to boost mango exports from East Godavari

The Andhra Pradesh state government, working together with the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), has launched an…

Growers facing substantial losses

Tomato prices down in Hyderabad

In the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad, there is a sharp drop in tomato prices. An oversupply has resulted in the prices crashing. Experts forecast the price drops will…

Kyrgyzstan: Exports of 14,500 tons of apples, pears and quinces in 2020

In 2020, foreign trade revenues of the Kyrgyz Republic amounted to $5,65 billion and decreased by 19% for a year, said the National Statistics Committee.…

Qatar’s ‘Start-up of the Week’

Ordering fresh fruits and vegetables online with Harvest app

Every week, ILQ features a different Qatari start-up in its ‘Start-up of the Week’ segment. Qatar has many creative, unique, and impactful start-ups and IQL covers them across…

Via Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)

Vietnam: Better opportunities for agricultural exports to nearby markets

With the signing of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), member states in the region, such as Vietnam, will have more convenient…

Qatar: Sales of local vegetables up 60% in three years

There has been a significant increase in the volume of sales of local produce through ‘Qatar Farms’ and ‘Premium Qatari Vegetables’ marketing programmes; sales…

Jim Ertler - Premium Fresh

Warm spring and cool summer sets up good Tasmanian onion season

The Tasmanian onion harvest is going well, a very warm spring set the crop up nicely. “We are having a cool summer and the crop is coming along well with good volumes and…

Tahiti lime volumes out of Brazil to increase in April

The weather in Brazil last year has resulted in slightly lower volumes of Tahiti lime during the start of this harvesting season. Breno Casquet of ActuaTrade shares: “The…

Regional shifts for banana supplies in North America

Supplies of bananas in North America are currently moving “like a chess game.” So says Anthony Serafino of Exp Group, LLC based in North Bergen, NJ. He notes that following…

Plastic-free packaging meets Australian Home Compost standard

CKF, Inc. has expanded its international accreditations for responsible end of life disposal of packaging by meeting the Australian Home Compostability standard, AS 5810…

Coöperatie Hoogstraten connects grower and consumer thanks to vision and RFID technology

Coöperatie Hoogstraten was looking for a tracking system linking the cardboard punnets and trays for its strawberries to the pallet carrying them. The company opted for a…

De Groot en Slot B.V. starts long-term onion project

“Using Ethiopian onion varieties and testing the best possible circumstances to improve the onion crop will be the starting point of this project”, says Jan Slot of De Groot…

SAAGA supports the legal importation of avocado fruit from Tanzania.

The following is a statement made by Subtrop CEO Derek Donkin. "South Africa and Tanzania are both members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and…

Hyperspectral imaging: the stuff of science coming to an automated food line near you

Vision can be deployed in a number of different ways on a food processing line to tell if food is safe to eat and meets the quality standards demanded by…

Total EU avocado supply (updated 19-02-2020)

Avocado supply to the EU in week 7 still dominated by Spanish and Israeli shipments

Week 7's avocado supply to the EU was still dominated by Spanish and Israeli shipments. Spain shipped a total of 876,000 4-kg cartons, of which 815,000 were Hass avocados. The shipments from…

In the future, three corn cans from Bonduelle will be held together using cardboard

Vegetable company removes plastic around the cans

The vegetable company Bonduelle is now removing plastic from multi-packs of canned corn. Instead, the cans are held together with small cardboard bands made of…

MediWound seeks to treat non-melanoma skin cancer

New therapies based on enzymes from stem of pineapple plant

MediWound, a biotech firm that makes burn and wound treatments, is ready to start a clinical trial in three US medical centers of a new possible drug to treat…

Shlomi Fogel, chairman of Carmel Agrexco

Israeli CEO wants imported blueberries treated with methyl bromide to be labelled

Shlomi Fogel is the chairman of Carmel Agrexco, an agricultural export company that operates a Golan Heights blueberry farm. On Monday, he addressed the…

Hot water circulating in 15 hectares of tunnels beneath the ground

Video Italian organic asparagus grown with the help of underfloor heating

"The idea is essentially the same as with underfloor heating. Thanks to a series of pipes, warm water circulates around 45 to 50 centimetres under the ground, which makes the…

Average weekly wholesale prices of fruit and veg & bananas

Cox's orange apples sold for £1.45, down 5% as compared to last week

This series gives the average wholesale prices of fruit and vegetables, as well as bananas by country of origin. The prices are national averages of the most usual prices…

USDA estimates record harvest of American and Turkish pistachio nuts

The global pistachio harvest for 2020/21 is up by almost 40% to a record 985,000 tonnes as harvests in the United States and Turkey enter the first year of the rotational crop…

Retail

Dreamstime

Supermarket chain Svetofor to open its first store in Serbia

Bestway Wholesale completed its acquisition of the Costcutter Supermarkets Group

France: Carrefour does not see Casino as an acquisition targetCarrefour, Europe’s largest food retailer, does not see major acquisition opportunities in France and does not…

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