“Grape export volumes will pick up starting from week 6”
According to Samir Singh, business promoter for Indian grape exporter Mersel Foods, the grape season in India was delayed for a few weeks due to the weather conditions in the vineyards: “The

Unseasonal weather causes Australian lychee season to extend further into summer
As cooler and wetter conditions result in a later harvest than usual, Australians can expect to see more lychees on supermarket shelves for longer this year. Despite a bumper crop being picked,

"With the Limvalnera strawberry, we can supply retail programs from October to June"
High temperatures in autumn set the pace for the start of the strawberry season in Huelva and delayed the planting phase until almost the end of November. Every year, the weather conditions are

"The weather is affecting yields in peppers with 2 kg less on average".

Building a secure and sustainable future for our industry
It has been a Spring-Summer spud season of weather extremes, with either too much sudden rain or not enough. I asked around the industry to see how that has impacted quality, yields, pests

Private households bought less fresh fruit in 2022
Looking back, the fruit and vegetable market was significantly influenced by several factors last year. On the one hand, the war in Ukraine initially caused energy and transport costs to rise,

Increased local demand for Ontario Red Prince apples
Ontario apples are continuing to see a strong year--a welcome change from the last two years where smaller crops followed challenging weather conditions. “This year overall we had a bumper crop.

Israeli startup growing ready-to-eat duckweed-based green for daily intake
GreenOnyx has developed a sterile, fully autonomous modular tech farm to grow fresh ready-to-eat duckweed-based green superfood for daily intake. An Israeli agritech startup that set out on a

"Moroccan and Egyptian clementines being pushed on Belgian market"
Spanish citrus prices have been quite high this whole season. "The supply's not limited, but volumes are lower than in previous years. So, prices, especially for juicing oranges, are much higher

GLOBAL MARKET OVERVIEW CUCUMBER
The increased energy costs have hit the winter production of cucumbers on the northern hemisphere hard. Many northern European cucumber growers have opted out of heating or lighting their cucumber

Citrus grower fights to keep crop healthy as Phoenix area is faced with cold spell
Arizona citrus growers are working hard this week to keep their plants thriving during this cold snap as overnight temps are hovering around the freezing mark. Fortunately, the plants at Agritopia

Zespri sets out plan to improve fruit quality
The plan will focus on taste, nutritious value and delivering consistent quality to consumers worldwide. Bruce Cameron, Zespri chairman, admitted that quality issues faced last year by the

Rise in China’s orange imports
China’s 2022/23 orange imports are expected to reach 230,000 tons, up from 223,000 tons in 2021/22, as the country begins removing some of its numerous transportation requirements related to

Israeli citrus exporters hit by soaring shipping prices
The productive area is estimated at 15,850 ha. In recent years, weather conditions and market prices were the main challenges for citrus farmers and exporters; however, this year, shipping

Unjustified price increases: no shortage of cold weather product
A slight drop in production is physiological at this time of year for reasons related to the production cycle and low temperatures: such as for broccoli, whose volumes are starting to decrease.

Chinese citrus market plateaus
A period of growth is set to come to an end for Chinese citrus production in the upcoming marketing year 2022/23 (12 months from 1 October 2022) but consumption and demand for high quality fruit

Fruit and vegetable price trends as at 16 January
After the abnormally hot and rainy weather, the cold weather is playing a decisive role in the fruit and vegetable sector: it is, for example, prompting more colour in tarocco oranges and

The third meeting of the Pear Club is behind us
Despite the rainy weather, the attendance at the 3rd meeting of the Pear Club was good. A demonstration of winter pruning of pear trees was held on the farm of Mr and Mrs Piasecki, but that was

Raspberries - the second part of the season begins in Poland, will prices rise?
The domestic raspberry market in Poland is slowly entering the second part of the season as the autumn raspberry trade begins. From a processing point of view, it is this phase of the campaign

Green beans - prices fall sharply in Poland
In the last three years we have become accustomed to relatively high fresh bean prices in June in Poland. Especially when compared to 2016-2018, the later seasons (2019, 2020 and 2021) were

Prices of strawberries in Poland - it has become a record
With the rainy weather on Monday, prices for dessert strawberries in Poland stopped falling again and instead tended to strengthen throughout the day. As a result, they are at record levels. This

Green beans are not getting cheaper on the Polish market
Prices of domestic string beans remain high in Poland. The end of May and the beginning of June this year saw larger wholesale trade at the level of 21.00-26.00 PLN per kilo. This gives an

Strawberry prices are down again on the Polish market
And once again we had a collapse in dessert strawberry prices at the end of the working week in Poland. And if it wasn't for the fact that the weather was cold and rainy on Saturday, this