"Good sales of Peruvian pomegranates, especially a shortage of large sizes"
Last year, the Peruvian grower Complejo Agroindustrial Beta started a European sales office on the Dutch market, called Beta Best Produce. The company has a cultivation area of ​​5,500

Vanity, a winning pumpkin
"Vanity, for us at Levantia Seed, represents an important bet won that never ceases to surprise us and is a point of reference for consumers". This is how Samuele Pellegrini, director of Levantia

Arena Group's (VéGé) School of Trades: training for the fruit and vegetable sector
Training and information for good management of the fruit and vegetable department. The Academy of the Arena Group (VéGé), active in Sicily with the Decò and Super Coveniente brands, concluded

Blackberry pricing coming back down
Thanks to warmer spring temperatures, supplies of blackberries from Mexico will start increasing next month. “It’s been a fairly cool spring until now but we’re feeling like those

"Adverse climate is not the only reason for the difficult strawberry season in Egypt"
With the strawberry season coming to an end, producers have reported a difficult situation marked by large losses of volume, and a considerable increase in production costs, a situation due mainly

Apofruit, new projects on potatoes, fennel and carrots
Apofruit Italia, a fruit and vegetable growers' co-operative with over 2,700 members that markets 100% Made in Italy products worldwide, Canova S.r.l. for organic products and Mediterraneo Group,

"Our winter red radishes have established themselves well in both food retail and wholesale"
At the Ruff-Häring family of gardeners in the heart of Nuremberg's garlic country, this year's radish and red radish harvest has been in full swing for several weeks. "The greenhouse radish is

Martinique opens the way to organic bananas
“We are currently in a trial period. Perhaps other farms will convert to an organic production in the coming years,” explains Ralph Renciot, manager of the Bioban farm of the Lareinty group,

'Orange Valencia, surprising request'
Larves this year have had to fight first against the heat and then against bad weather, leading to a drop in production in some areas. However, Op CAI of Furci Siculo, in the province of Messina,

Early summer finish for domestic pears
Pear supplies out of the Pacific Northwest are slowing down as growers and shippers head into the summer fruit season. At Sage Fruit, Kaci Komstadius says it still has steady supplies of Red and

Drzewa Bigbucks wydają się być hitem w Indiach
Flash Gala ™, pełne czerwone jabłko z drzewa Bigbucks, jest popularnym wyborem wśród mieszkańców RPA, którzy, podobnie jak ich odpowiednicy na całym świecie, są uwiedzeni doskonałym,

Garlic Contact Group calls for controls to prevent fraudulent entry of Chinese garlic
This was the opinion of the members of the Garlic Contact Group during their meeting held in the town of Peñafiel, Valladolid, where the results of the report drawn up by the National Garlic

China greenlights imports of yellow Ecuadorian pitahaya
Ecuadorian producers and exporters of yellow pitahaya are celebrating access to the lucrative Chinese market, following eight years of negotiations. The first volumes are set to arrive for week

Demand for carrots intensified in Ukraine
An increase in prices for carrots has been noted in most regions of Ukraine this week, analysts from the EastFruit project report. Experts say the main reason for this is the seasonal reduction in

NFU marathon team raises £30k for Farm Africa
A team of NFU runners has raised more than £30,000 for Farm Africa by completing the London Marathon this month, with donations going to support farmers in East Africa. The team of farming

"We collect and pay for your rejected and damaged avocados across Europe.”
Importers and distributors of avocado’s in Europe need not worry about carrying the costs of rejected and damaged products anymore, Procesavo will collect and pay you for them instead. “We use

"Now is when Lamb Hass avocados have the optimal quality for consumption"
The marketing of Lamb Hass avocados, grown in the Region of Valencia, has just started for Grupo Alcoaxarquia, which is carrying out this out through its new subsidiary Alcoaxarquia Levante, in

Welsh flabbergasted by 'pebble statue’ that looks like a 'baked potato wrapped in tin foil'
A Welsh council has spent £6,000 on a commemorative sculpture to mark the start of the scenic Wales Coastal Path walk. It was intended to resemble an enormous, glittery pebble, welcoming hikers

Helping reduce methane emissions by solving a sticky problem for US produce exporters
We see them every time we purchase fresh fruits and vegetables: price look up (PLU) labels. The little coin-size stickers are stuck to everything from apples, bananas, and cantaloupes to

Stats NZ: Napier apple export volumes down, but value remains stable
According to data released by Stats NZ, total exports of apples from the port of Napier in March 2023 were valued at $61 million, slightly up from March last year. The quantity of apples exported

Cyclone costs add up for Hawke’s Bay horticulture
Just over one month on, the full cost of the damage to Hawke’s Bay horticulture caused by Cyclone Gabrielle has become clearer with the latest estimates reaching nearly NZ$1.5bn. The

Freskon: 16 supermarkets from eleven countries at the FreshCon market
The FreshCon Market was organised by TIF-Helexpo and FROUTONEA magazine, and its main aim is to bring large supermarket chains into direct contact with professionals from the agricultural sector,

"Fewer leeks to go into cold storage than in other years"
In the Netherlands, leek harvesting is well underway at Bij Van den Elzen Groentenverwerking. "The leeks' quality is good," says salesman Gijs van den Oever, "though we're harvesting fewer kilos