The Sicilian Pachino tomato sector is looking ahead to more foreign markets
Over the past 20 years, the Pachino PGI Consortium has focused on promoting and enhancing the product mainly on the domestic market, with great efforts putting its tomato on the map for all

EU Agriculture Council discusses situation on European agricultural markets in Luxembourg
On 25 April, the agriculture ministers of the EU member states will meet in Luxembourg for their monthly Council meeting. The Agriculture Council will focus on the impact of the Russian attack on

Spain: tomato acreage in Extremadura will increase by 3,000 hectares this year
The producers of the Community of Irrigators of Orellana, which received support irrigation last week, will have three more days of irrigation, from April 24 to 27, to water their tomato

SortMate: The evolution of sorting fresh goods
SortMate by System Logistics is a new and innovative automated solution for managing and distributing fruit and vegetable crates. SortMate autonomously manages the entire inbound and outbound

International blueberry industry to meet in Agadir in September
The blueberry industry, besides being one of the newest in the international fruit market, is one of the most global. It is an industry that stands out for permanent development in all areas and

Almería’s outdoor watermelon acreage shrinks by a quarter
According to a study by ASAJA-Almería, the Spanish province will see a 25% contraction in its outdoor watermelon production area. The reduction is due to a combination of the extended autumn

Good early prospects for start of Hungarian strawberry season
A slightly cooler spring has delayed the start of the 2023 Hungarian strawberry season for a few days, but with good flowering and good prospects for fruit expected this year. “The phenological

Early potatoes in Uzbekistan fell in price by more than twice in two weeks
As EastFruit wrote earlier, the first large batches of early potatoes of the new crop became available on the wholesale markets of Uzbekistan’s capital in the first ten days of April, about

Blackcurrants lead in regenerative farming project
Ribena owner Suntory Beverage & Food Great Britain and Ireland (SBF GB&I) has unveiled a research project to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the growing of blackcurrants through regenerative