“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

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

Moroccan bell pepper exports to EU and UK rapidly growing
Bell peppers are one of the most exported categories from Morocco and the second in revenues from exports after tomatoes. Morocco, thanks to its favorable climate and developed agricultural

Llega la X Melon & Watermelon Week

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

Belgium’s Van Dijk Foods becomes a GLOBALG.A.P. community member
The newest GLOBALG.A.P. Community Member, Belgium-based Van Dijk Foods, is a produce importer and distributor. The company is part of the greater Achiel De Witte Group, which is also based in

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

Sweet potatoes are a complex crop
Benoit Labouille started growing sweet potatoes in 2015, wanting to offer a product from France to supermarkets and wholesalers. Initially, the producer only supplied the local market, but the

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

The Ferrovia cherry variety harvest in Apulia has just started
After weeks of bad weather that compromised several volumes of the early and intermediate varieties, the harvest of the Ferrovia cultivar is now underway for the Apulian cherry season. The current