GWF announces new board members
International women’s networking platform Global Women Fresh (GWF) has named its new Board of Directors for 2023/24. The five directors are Jennie Coleman, president of Canadian Fairtrade banana

Moroccan bell pepper exports to EU and UK rapidly growing
Greenhouse vegetables are an important product of the Moroccan foreign trade, with bell peppers as one of the most exported categories from Morocco and the second in revenues from exports after

Native raspberries, limes and more: how did these curious plants end up in Australia?
While plants can’t walk, they can certainly travel. Some species have travelled vast distances over millennia, moving by different and varied modes. Some found new habitats when the continent

Don Gregorio: Sakata's first greenhouse variety
Thus, Don Gregorio closes the melon cycle with the same Sakata genetics during the 12 months of the year. Joaquin Navarro, the company's Development Manager, affirms that "we are sure that it will

Ireland: Minister Hackett announces €10 million investment in the Horticulture Sector
The Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine with special responsibility for Horticulture, Senator Pippa Hackett, today announced the opening of the 2023 Scheme of

“It’s time to interrupt the North American mushroom industry”
Degrees of innovation in the mushroom industry vary greatly around the world. In North America for instance, selling mushrooms in a blue container is the standard and product containing dirt is

WARNING: reported corporate identity theft against EUROFRUT S.p.A.
All fruit and vegetable market operators are warned that unidentified individuals are making attempts to establish contacts with producing companies, including those overseas, to request purchases

Cricket plans to reach 200 has bío
In the final stretch of the brassica export campaign, Campo de Lorca (Cricket) is taking stock and expects to finish normally and recovering some productivity in medium and high areas. "The good

"Compared to strawberries, a bit of seasonality has been lost with raspberries"
In week 21, the first tunnel raspberries of this year's season could be harvested at Obsthof Spinner in Oberkirch. "We started a few days later than last year, but the stands and budding are all

AVA Magnum® grows perfectly in the Scottish climate
The Scottish strawberry season got off to a later start this year, as did the whole UK crop. This was due to the low light levels and colder weather, but picking is now in full swing at Angus Soft

Murarka ogrodowa i murarka rogata pomagają w dobrym zapyleniu borówki
Zapylenie borówki wymaga obecności owadów zapylających na plantacjach. A jest tam co robić bo w jednym czasie rozkwita miliony kwiatów. Tymczasem na ich zapylenie jest niewiele czasu

Camposol targets Latin American expansion
Camposol has announced plans to diversify its portfolio of markets and customers after focusing for several years on its traditional markets of North America, Europe and Asia. The company said it

Cricket – a reliable brand for the future
Cricket is approaching rising costs prudently by lowering output of less profitable products. The firm has reduced broccoli and cauliflower production by between 5-10% due to the dry season and

More Orius in the face of a T. parvispinus upsurge
The arrival of June is the starting signal for the pest Trips parvispinus to increase its presence in greenhouse horticultural crops. This pest has already been visible since last April,

"I am now the only one offering asparagus in the Munich Gärtnerhalle"
The season for Schrobenhausen asparagus has been going well so far, but is now slowly coming to an end. "We have heard from some farms in the area that they will stop harvesting in the course of

JKI: Senior fruit disease expert Prof. Wilhelm Jelkmann retires
He is leaving, but not quite yet: Before his final retirement, Prof. Dr Wilhelm Jelkmann will attend one last Open Day at "his location" on 25 June. And he would also like to greet the Federal

Last year, more than 6,000 hectares of citrus fruit were abandoned in the Valencian production areas
As the 2022-2023 citrus campaign comes to an end, La Unió Llauradora expressed "its concern about the continued loss of harvest production in the Valencian Community over the last three campaigns

"The EU Agreement doesn't favor Moroccan growers"
Since the entry into force of the Association Agreement between the EU and Morocco in 2013, the country has gone from selling 365,695 tons of tomatoes to 557,225 tons in 2022, according to

Canadian Pacific Kansas City adds 1,000 new reefer containers for US-Mexico services
Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC), the newest rail freight company in the United States, added 1,000 53-foot reefer containers for its Mexico Midwest Express (MMX) intermodal service. This means

Agromark reduces its carbon footprint with Tosca
Agromark, a Spanish export company that produces and markets fruit and vegetables, needed to obtain a packaging solution for efficient transport that would guarantee the quality of its products at

Tanker also makes the grade in spring
Tanker, the long cucumber variety from Nunhems, BASF's horticultural brand, has just turned its transplanting calendar upside down. Although it is recommended for planting from 20th September to

Tomra improves cherry processing
Benedetta Ricci Iamino, Cherry Category Manager at TOMRA Food explains to Fruit Today magazine how, thanks to their machinery, larger volumes of cherries can be processed in the same period of

Tasty wonders, the sustainable way
The Nadorcott variety, marketed under the “Nadorine” brand, is expected to reach about 250,000 tons of marketing volumes this season, after a record 350,000 tons were produced and 296,000 tons