Qatar Airways Cargo first in world to complete IATA CEIV certifications suite
Qatar Airways Cargo, along with its ground handling partner Qatar Aviation Services (QAS) Cargo has announced its latest achievement – the IATA Centre of Excellence for Independent Validators in

Spain will produce more than 120,000 tons of almonds this year
According to the latest estimate of the national nuts table, Spain will produce 120,633 tons of grain almonds in the 2023 campaign. This is 49% above the average of the last three years and is

Planned expenditure also for fruit and vegetables
The Fruit and Vegetable Monitor has in recent weeks investigated which purchasing strategies Italians have deployed over the past year as a result of the mostly negative change in their purchasing

Fall Creek: The globalisation of blueberries - threat or gift for local producers?
Consumers want to eat locally grown blueberries. Sekoya's varieties can revitalise local production and bridge the gap to out-of-season supply, says Hans Liekens, value chain and retail manager at

Ireland first autonomous seed-n-weed robot gets to work in the southeast
Gary Abbott recently caught up Ireland's first autonomous field robot, the FarmDroid FD20, working in Co Kilkenny, weeding a crop of beet it had sown earlier in the spring. Nine months ago, we

"South African citrus started on empty market"
Spring was a long time coming in the Netherlands, but the somewhat grayer weather was good for citrus sales, says Gijsbert van Leeuwen, responsible for procurement at Olympic Fruit. "It wasn't

Exports on the upswing in Q1 2023
Italian fruit and vegetable exports are on the upswing in the first quarter of 2023. With volumes up 6.5% and values up more than 10 percentage points compared to the same period in 2022 (+10.7%),

Vegetable prices decreasing during June in Libya
Looking at the prices of vegetables in the Libyan market, there has been a noticeable decrease in the general level of prices in the past months during which they rose slightly, while the prices