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Green Media House: Popularity of mushrooms unbroken
No one wants to do without mushrooms today. And this, according to the Green Media House, despite the fact that the energy crisis has not stopped at cultivated mushrooms and has made them more

Peaches and nectarines, slow start and low volumes
The peach and nectarine campaign has started with produce from southern areas. Marked by a delay in production, due to lower temperatures and smaller volumes, the season started with rather high

Demand for exotic mushrooms on a downward trend since March
There is a lot of uncertainty in the international exotic mushroom market, as demand has been dropping for months, says Nature Green’s project manager Peter Sutherland: “There seems to be

Francescon: few melons until mid-July
Della Casa - As we have already observed in recent weeks (read the full article), the start of this melon campaign is among the most bizarre and indecipherable we can remember. We try to take

“We want to offer tastier and more resistant melon varieties”
Gautier Semences offers a complete range of melon varieties, particularly adapted to the three main production basins in the southwest, center-west and southeast of France. All of these varieties

Declining cultivation of carrots and organic onions
The domestic food retail trade is in the midst of a product range restructuring process. The marketing of domestic alternative edible potatoes has been completed. To bridge the gap until

Little Leaf Farms inaugurates greenhouse, will add a new one in fall
US lettuce grower, Little Leaf Farms, is announcing it will open a new state-of-the-art greenhouse in McAdoo, Pennsylvania, this fall. This will be the fifth greenhouse for Little Leaf Farms and

"Last year's lack of water caused a large part of Italian pears to be of smaller calibers"
"We have pears on offer all year round. Through a supplier called Sandri, who grows pears himself, we will obtain our goods from Italy. As soon as the Italian season is over, we purchase overseas

Exotics exporter wants to be Colombia’s fruit ambassador to rest of world
The exotic fruits exporter Cosmo Fruit, aims to be Colombia’s fruit ambassador to the rest of the world. According to Mauricio Lopez N., President and CEO, they want to expand their exotic fruit

AMI: Early start to the season for apricots meets high propensity to buy
Currently, the supply of apricots on the German market is increasing. With the increasingly summery weather, the stone fruit is already being heavily promoted by food retailers at an early stage

Bad weather drives up vegetable prices
Vegetable prices jumped 13.9% affected by the crazy weather trend with the multiplication of extreme events, including drought and bad weather, which hit field crops hard, reducing their

Top Melon, excellent start for Umbrian melons
The harvest of Umbrian melons cultivated under tunnels at Top Melon's Pantalla (Perugia) site has started these days. The first fruits present a high quality level, even if the volumes are not the

Salatrio: Rijk Zwaan demo reveals five insights
The Salatrio concept – a single, colorful head of ‘living lettuce’ made up of three different types – has been around for years and continues to gain popularity worldwide. At the Salatrio

Melon, the value goes through the set-up of the department
Along with watermelons, the melon is the undisputed king of the fruit and vegetable department in summer. Its presence is always noticeable, but this is often not enough to boost sales. What is

Current average week prices of bananas from Belize at £0.95
This series gives the average wholesale prices of bananas by country of origin. The prices are national averages of the most usual prices charged for bananas at wholesale markets in Birmingham and

'Fruit and vegetables, we will learn to do less and better'
'For the future we will learn to make less and better quality fruit and vegetables, for example by investing in greenhouse crops'. This is the admonition that comes fromRiccardo Pompei, the

UK fruit exports to the EU plummet after Brexit
The UK’s fruit exports to the EU have paid a heavy price for Brexit, with their value more than halving between March 2021 and March 2023, according to new data published by the UK

"May had very ordinary melon prices"
On the European melon market, May was nothing to write home about. "That applies to not only the overseas season's tail end," says Leon van den Hombergh. "But also the Spanish season's start."

“We want to share our love for the vegetables we create"
Bringing together bright, healthy, and inspiring vegetables, along with a deeper understanding of the foods we eat and why, is Rijk Zwaan's focus at this year's Hort Connections. In an innovative

Meloni in Veneto, bad start to the season
The season for melons in Veneto is off to a bad start, strongly affected by the rainy and cool May weather. The harvest, which began about ten days ago, has so far been unrewarding for producers,