Labor shortages lead to fewer vegetables being grown in Estonia
Fewer vegetables are being grown in Estonia because farms lack workers. This has led to higher quantities of vegetables now being imported from abroad than before. In 2019, Estonian farmers

"Problem-free overseas citrus sales"
"The citrus from South Africa and Peru are selling well," begins Randolf Aaldijk of the Dutch company Origin Fruit Direct (OFD), summarizing the overseas citrus market in mid-June. Retail programs

Farmers in the Shahristan district of Tajikistan achieve high yields and export their produce beyond the country
Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon recently visited the Sughd region, where he inaugurated a new water supply facility in the village of Khurramdara and visited a potato farm called "Nur." The

Finding tech solutions to labour problem
Training fruit pickers using virtual reality equipment, employing robots to move fruit containers and wearing exoskeletons to support physical labour are all possibilities being considered by

United Kingdom, how to solve the inflation problem?
As I write this, headline inflation seems to be moderating, but food inflation is nevertheless growing faster. Moreover, it is not expected to ease much in the coming months. Coupled with the

Life-saving 'super banana' from science
The laboratory-created 'super banana' to combat vitamin A deficiency has arrived from Uganda. Reporting the news is National Geographic, which points out that deficiencies of essential elements

New threat to horticulture of Central Asia: labor shortage
According to EastFruit experts from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, a new problem has arisen in the countries, which caught many by a complete surprise. This problem is rather serious and could lead to

New threat to horticulture of Central Asia…– labor shortage!
According to EastFruit experts from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan a new has arisen in the countries, which caught many by a complete surprised. This problem is rather serious and could lead to a

Berries introduced on top of stone fruit
For "Domenico Laghi", a historic trading business based in Forlì, the apricot, peach and nectarine campaign has started off well with good demand from both Italy and abroad. "Demand is lively but

Spain: Strawberries get into politics
What started as a campaign supported by 150,000 people in Germany encouraging supermarkets to stop buying Spanish strawberries could become a more serious problem. Following this boycott attempt

Italy: Senate gives green light for NGT plants in field trial
Earlier this week, the Italian Senate's Agriculture Committee voted unanimously in favour of the amendment to the Drought Emergency Ordinance to allow field trials of NGT crops - those modified

Move over burgers and sausages – here comes trendy new BBQ asparagus
A Herefordshire asparagus farmer has helped fixed a problem for BBQ fans who love grilling the vegetable, but find the regular spears can be too delicate for cooking on a griddle. Chris Chinn,

Excess soil salinity, Italy goes to school from Israel
Italy is looking to Israel not only for an increasingly efficient use of water, with state-of-the-art irrigation systems, but also to solve the problem of the effect of excessive soil salinity on

Crop challenges and high costs impacting yuca supplies
Yuca or cassava supplies out of Costa Rica are seeing some challenges currently. Costa Rica is a year-round producer of the root vegetable and the crop takes approximately nine months to mature.

"I was very pleased with my new Pellerano mulcher"
After he was handed it just a few days ago, Vincenzo Bilotta, an agri-business owner from Lamezia Terme (Calabria, Italy), could not resist the temptation to immediately try out his new Versilia

The frenzied search for wells to obtain irrigation water
Drought continues to be a problem in northern Italy, where rivers and reservoirs have reached minimum levels, already almost as bad as last summer. The rainfall in winter and these first few

Asian bedbug, defence strategies work
As the Asian longhorn beetle is a complex problem for the production sector, there is no magic wand that can solve it tout court. To assess the best strategies, the environmental context in

Fruitimprese: Green Deal penalises Italy
The restrictive EU Green Deal policies impacting on plant protection products and packaging risk penalising Italian companies already burdened by the drought problem and the shortage of skilled