Rekordowe ceny truskawek na Ukrainie w maju 2023 r.
Według analityków EastFruit, sytuacja na rynku truskawek w Europie Wschodniej jest niestandardowa w 2023 roku. Zimna i w większości pochmurna pogoda na Ukrainie prowadzi do

Strawberries for big retail chains and wholesale markets
"We started harvesting strawberries in late March and will continue until late June. Ours is not a mass-production, but rather a selected one, so we manage to also reach the big retail sale chains

Good flowering period for Italian apples point to high availability in coming season
VOG is looking ahead to the 2023/2024 apple season. At MacFrut held in Italy, the Consortium outlined its next strategies based on the four elements of the Home of apples structure: origin,

Zespri: Fruit quality has increased, but significantly lower New Zealand kiwi crop 2023
Zespri has confirmed that difficult weather conditions throughout the 2023 growing season have contributed to a lower than expected New Zealand kiwifruit crop this season. According to the latest

Fiber-based packaging for lowering fresh produce’s climate impact
Currently, producers and sellers have high expectations for packaging reliability and at the same time seek to balance this with increasingly ambitious sustainability measures. This includes

Destatis: Vegetables rose by 13.7 per cent, fruit by 6.2 per cent
"The inflation rate has thus weakened for the second month in a row, but remains at a high level," says Ruth Brand, President of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). Among the goods and

Turkish cherry harvest delayed in early regions due to lower temperatures
The growing period for the Turkish cherries has been rather positive, says Belit Balci, deputy managing director of Turkish fresh produce exporter Alara Tarim: “The weather conditions are

The fruit and berry market in Russia has the potential to increase by almost 70%
A recent report by "Interagro" reveals that the fruit and berry market in Russia has the potential to increase by almost 70%, reaching 14.6 million tons annually. The research suggests that the

Chokeberry seedlings - what is worth knowing about them?
Aronia in Poland grows on about 14,000 hectares of fields and its annual production is usually 40-55,000 tonnes. There are farms in the country where it is the primary direction of production, but

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.

Styrian asparagus peak season starts now at SPAR
Just in time for Mother's Day and the barbecue season, SPAR is putting Styrian asparagus in the spotlight together with the "young WILD ("jungen WILDEN") vegetable farmers". The cooperation with

“Minus temperatures at night in May are very normal”
It’s very unclear what kind of damage the frosts have caused to the Polish blueberries, says Sandra Stefaniak-Syguła, co-owner of Polish berry trader Berrytrade: “It’s challenging for us to

AMI: High retail promotional activity for courgettes
From the Spanish and Moroccan growing regions, courgettes have been pushing onto the German market for weeks. The growing conditions in the exporting countries are good, the weather with summer

Cold weather stalls Michigan asparagus crop
According to Tim Boring, director of Michigan Asparagus Advisory Board, Michigan is the largest asparagus grower in the nation. Jamie Clover Adams, executive director of the same organization,

DIA fined for failing to comply with the Chain Law
This appears in the quarterly publication of final administrative or judicial sanctions by the Food Information and Control Agency (AICA), an autonomous body attached to the Ministry of

“By growing our own mother plants, we can keep our entire chain virus-free”
Ireland is renowned as the land of potatoes, and nowadays also, a great part of the sweet potatoes eaten in Europe have Irish roots. From their greenhouse and propagation laboratory, Beotanics

"As temperatures rise in Europe, and the exceptional quality of the fruit this year, we expect good consumption"
The stone fruit harvest is gaining momentum in Murcia, where significant volumes are already expected next week. The fruit is arriving with very good quality and high sugar levels as a result of

Strawberry plantations after frost - losses already visible!
Most of the plantations on the farm of Magdalena and Mateusz Włodarczyk were covered for the frost period with a 23 g/m2 agro-fleece from Agrimpex (read also). And all the luck. We went to a part

"Climate-neutral waste heat from our neighbor heats the greenhouse in the transitional and winter periods"
Dr. Gunnar Schellenberger, president of the Saxony-Anhalt Landtag, has now seen for himself what sustainable production controlled by high-tech can achieve in one of the largest greenhouse

Fruit and vegetable price trends in Italy as at 8 May
Sicilian production of harvested melons is now in full swing. The situation is still critical for tomatoes, with high prices for cherry tomatoes in particular. Strawberry prices are also on the

LfULG: Robots for fruit and wine growing in test operation
The ELWOBOT, an autonomously driving fruit and wine-growing robot with a modular energy supply and electric drive, is now entering the test phase after less than three years of planning and

Record prices for strawberries in Ukraine in May 2023 – analyzing the reasons and prospects
According to EastFruit analysts, the situation on the strawberry market in Eastern Europe is non-standard in 2023. Cold and mostly cloudy weather in Ukraine leads to a delay in the ripening of

Black rind and red flesh: the midi seedless watermelon the big retail chain was looking for
Characterized by a bright red flesh and a dark green - almost black -rind, Dolce Passione watermelons are now part of a consortium. Consorzio Dolce Passione was in fact presented at Macfrut - a

Our tropical fruits are vulnerable to climate change. Can we make them resilient in time?
Plants provide almost every calorie of food we eat. Grains like rice, wheat and corn make civilisation possible. For millennia, farmers have bred grains, fruit and vegetable varieties to get

Mango producers in Veracruz lost 50-70% of the harvest to a cold front
The wind gusts of more than 70 km/h caused by Cold Front #52 at the end of April toppled a considerable part of the Manila mango production, scheduled for 2023, in the municipalities of Actopan