Aldi completes living wage verification pilot on banana farms
The Aldi South Group together with Aldi Nord and other sectoral stakeholders, including Heartwood LLC, Banana Link, Dole, Grupo Iren and Banafem, have announced the successful completion of a

Brazil: Agri exports reach US$ 16 billion in March 2023
According to the Brazilian agribusiness trade balance data for March, exports keep growing year after year. This month, the value of goods traded abroad reached US$ 16 billion, a 10.6% increase

Rząd przeanalizuje większą pomoc w związku z suszą, którą uważa za "politykę państwa".
Po spotkaniu Ministerstwo Rolnictwa, Rybołówstwa i Żywności (MAPA) poinformowało, że szef resortu zwróci się również do Brukseli w formie listu o elastyczność

Aldi: Pilot project to verify living wages on banana farms ended
The aim of the project, on which the Aldi Süd Group worked together with Aldi Nord and other actors in the sector, including Heartwood LLC, Banana Link, Dole, Grupo Iren and Banafem, was to train

Rośnie frustracja z powodu sytuacji w sektorze cytrusów
Południowoafrykański przemysł cytrusowy kontynuuje kampanię pisania listów do rządu, starając się powstrzymać skutki nowych regulacji unijnych dla krajowego sektora eksportu pomarańczy

He buys a bag of bananas and finds a poisonous spider in it
A British man's visit to the supermarket turned out to be really disturbing. As the man, Craig Harrison,opened a bag of bananas he had just bought in the British grocery shop Tesco, he noticed a

Dole targets people who have never eaten a banana
To mark National Banana Day, the world’s largest fresh produce company Dole says it wants to track down consumers in the US who have never eaten the fruit – despite it apparently being the

March in large-scale retail: inflation rises again
In March, the fruit and vegetable department of the large-scale retail trade still showed declining consumption across the different macro-categories, but the change in average prices showed a

“The success of a store does not rely on the price of bananas”
For a long time, bananas have been the cheapest item in the produce section, if not the entire store. However, plantations in Latin America are often affected by this news in a negative way (bad

Cena jabłek Red Jonaprince jak dwa lata temu
Do kwietnia bieżącego roku sytuacja cenowa w handlu odmianą Red Jonaprince była jednym wielkim rozczarowaniem. Popyt na Prince’a był cały czas niski, zwłaszcza

Oslo: Again cocaine found in banana shipment
For the second time in less than three weeks, Oslo police have seized as much as 900 kilos of cocaine found in boxes of bananas believed to have originated from Ecuador. The police think it was

Bananas from Colombia at £1.10: no change from last week
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

Saucony creates Sustainable Shadow sneakers using mushroom-based formula
For its Spring/Summer 2023 collection, Saucony has crafted its staple Shadow 6000 in its most sustainably minded construction to date. The Massachusetts banner looks to an alternative 90%

Vietnamese growers deploy XAG drones
Vietnam’s fruit growers are harnessing the power of XAG drones to cuts costs and improve efficiency on their banana and durian farms. According to a media release from the ag-tech company, an

Governors want avocados, macadamia, bananas and potatoes on state priority list
Governors from ten counties in Central Kenya are criticizing the federal government to include several farm products in the list of support through value addition. Under the Central Economic

Gubernatorzy chcą awokado, makadamii, bananów i ziemniaków na liście priorytetów państwowych
Gubernatorzy z dziesięciu hrabstw w środkowej Kenii krytykują rząd federalny, aby włączyć kilka produktów rolnych do listy wsparcia poprzez dodawanie wartości. W ramach Bloku

Рынок Лузии, цены и поставки растут
Ниже представлен обзор тенденций рынка, зафиксированных в Лузии в марте. В районе Лузии рынок был в

Fewer organic carrots sold, bananas remain top seller in organic segment
In February, 827 t of organic carrots were sold in the Swiss retail trade. After exceeding 900 t in each of the last three years, February sales thus fell to a level similar to February 2018 (830

Rynek Lusia, ceny i dostawy w górę
Poniżej przedstawiamy przegląd tendencji rynkowych odnotowanych w Lusiu w marcu. W rejonie Lusia rynek był w zasadzie stabilny pod względem pogodowym, z chłodnymi,

Lusia market, prices and deliveries on the rise
Below is an overview of the market trend recorded in Lusia in March. In the Lusia area the market was essentially stable in terms of weather, with cool, sunny days, with only two moments when it

Has banana pricing hit its peak?
Supplies of bananas are improving. That’s a very good thing says Anthony Serafino of Exp Group, LLC. “Supply has been pretty strong but it’s going to improve going into the summer,” he

Transporting bananas by rail back on track
Thirty years ago, it was very common to transport bananas by rail in Europe. That type of transport stopped for some time, says Johan Claes, director of the Belgian New Fruit Wharf (BNFW), which

Projekt promujący biologiczne zwalczanie szkodnika liści pomidora
W 2006 r. do Hiszpanii dotarł szkodnik liściowy pomidora, plaga, która dotyka rośliny pomidora i powoduje duże straty w całym łańcuchu wartości. Ten górniczy motylek atakuje