Grape farming firms among Namibia’s fastest-growing companies in 2023
Grape packaging and farming company Achill Island Investments Pty Ltd has received the title ‘Namibia’s fastest-growing company of 2023’. The company achieved a compound annual growth rate

Apple prices in Ukraine more than doubled on a year – which varieties are trending?
According to EastFruit analysts, wholesale prices for apples in Ukraine are currently more than twice as high as at the same of 2022. Ukraine’ s apple harvest in 2022 was good and many wonder

Sicilian bell peppers reach European markets
It's an exceptional year for Sicilian bell peppers - the season started in March, and quotations have been high. FreshPlaza talked to OP Albani, located in Vittoria, to better understand the 2023

The 'cross' of the Dana in the Southeast
The countryside was looking to the sky for water, and finally the rains have arrived, but in torrential form in the southeast of the peninsula. This Tuesday the rains have fallen with intensity

Flood in Romagna, Maap sends tonnes of fruit and vegetables
The flooding that hit Emilia-Romagna hard last week did not leave Maap, the Padua Food Market, indifferent, as it donated two tonnes of fruit and vegetables to Russi, a small municipality of

"We are still shipping 65 pallets a day of strawberries to Italian markets and big retail chains"
Rocco Zuccarella, president of Zuccarella Società Cooperativa Agricola from Scanzano Jonico (Matera) reports that there are still less than 20 days to go until the end of the 2022/23 strawberry

Dutch Greenhouse Delta Indian trade mission a success
Dutch Greenhouse Delta (DGD) has hailed the benefits of its successful HortiRoad2India trade mission. Organised by DGD, InnovationQuarter, the Netherlands Embassy in India, and Rotterdam

Economy under so much strain “you can almost touch it”
Most of South Africa’s tomatoes are coming from Limpopo, followed by the Onderberg in Mpumalanga. Some tomato farmers on the West Coast are still cropping, while farmers on both sides of the