"I've never seen prices such as these for TOVs"
Greenhouse vegetable prices are skyrocketing. "Bell peppers, zucchini, eggplant, tomato, cucumber. You name it, everything's expensive," says Geert Baecke of Tino's Fruit in Belgium. "We're

South African avo growers to start picking for exports as weather clears
The export crop estimate for South Africa's new avocado crop is 17 million 4kg cartons, 5% higher than last season. Hass volumes are lower than last year, while Fuerte and Pinkerton volumes are

Haulage prices fall from all-time high, retailers left facing highest January prices on record
The latest data from the TEG Road Transport Price Index has revealed that both the courier and haulage vehicle price-per-mile have fallen in January, following an all-time high in December. The

EU wants to champion "green agriculture" in Southeast Asia
The EU wants to champion "green agriculture" in Southeast Asia. But limited trade relations, regulatory nightmares and distrust could stymie it. As manufacturing and tourism collapsed in the three

"European supermarkets do not prioritize sweetness or acidity in pomegranates, but rather the fruit being red on the outside"
The Spanish pomegranate season is coming to an end, in a year in which Spain's largest production area, Alicante, has recorded a significant drop in the production volumes due to the impact of

FEFCO: Reuse targets based on fossil resources - renewable materials ignored
FEFCO supports the European Commission's intention to "reduce the negative environmental impacts of packaging and packaging waste while improving the functioning of the internal market" through