“Imported products make it easier to set up French products”
As the manager of Paris Select, Didier Ioli prioritizes the French origin for all his products, but he still has to start the season with imported products. “We started the French Gariguette at

The International Pepper Congress to take place in May in Almería
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Inspire, a winning variety for Italian grower
Italy is entering the final stretch of its strawberry campaign. A year that, as in other producing areas of the Mediterranean Arc, has been marked by high temperatures. This situation has not

"More people are getting to know exclusive products like Spanish wild strawberries"
This month, Spanish wild strawberries appeared again in herb and edible flower merchant Van Laethem's assortment. "These have been an established part of our range for several years. As soon as

Florida peaches waiting on rain
The Florida peach season is three weeks away from getting underway. “The crop is a little light compared to last year. Most of our trees are 10-11 years old and they’re kind of slowing down a

Eurosemillas gives priority to AVA-ASAJA for the new extra-late mandarin 'Kino'.
The Valencia Region will be the leading European producing area in the expansion of the new extra-late variety 'Kino'. With this citrus fruit, the Valencian sector will be able to extend the

Cucumber prices drop
In Belgium, more local products are gradually being auctioned. That means the recent truly high prices for greenhouse vegetables at the Belgian Horticultural Cooperatives Federation (VBT) are

Meloni, biggies predict a drop in areas
It is still an uncertain campaign for melons. While last year ended on an optimistic note due to the quotations obtained and the high temperatures that favoured consumption, this year the scenario

Greenhouse production of peppers rises 26%.
With the inflationary crisis registered during the current season, everything has been a continuous increase in production costs in agriculture and livestock farming. This situation has had a more

Wholesale, Ramadan effect will be a brake on sales
Wholesale markets enjoyed brief flashes of enthusiasm due to seasonal novelties, as was the case for green beans, broad beans and peas. Enthusiasm that lasted too short and did not benefit the

Germany issues an alert after detecting chlorothalonil in melons imported from Costa Rica via the Netherlands
German health authorities notified the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) that they detected the presence of chlorothalonil, a fungicide that is considered carcinogenic, in melons

Good response to South African grape campaign in China
South African table grape industry body SATI has announced the successful start of its 2023 promotional campaign in China, launched at Guangzhou’s Jiangnonghui wholesale fruit market. “Joining

Pear sizing mobile app delivers reliable size data earlier than ever before
Hectre, double award winners in the AgTech Breakthrough Awards, have announced that their latest innovation, the Spectre for Pears early fruit sizing app, has now been released to the market.

The Emilia-Romagna Igp pear flies to Brussels
Tomorrow there will also be the Emilia Romagna PGI pear as part of the fifth Arepo 'European event on Quality and Origin products' in Brussels, organised by Arepo, the association of European

Late mandarins, a campaign to frame
Late mandarins are coming to the end of a brilliant campaign, requests from the markets and the large-scale retail trade are satisfactory and demand is steadily increasing, while the Easter

A nursery producing 100 million plants a year
One of the leading vegetable nurseries in Emilia Romagna, Vivai Garattoni Umberto in San Mauro Pascoli, produces around 100 million plants every year. The main products are leaf vegetables,

South African Table Grape Industry celebrates 2022/2023 China Campaign launch
On Friday, March 24, the South African Table Grape Industry (SATI) celebrated a successful 2022/2023 China Market Development Campaign launch at Guangzhou’s Jiangnonghui wholesale fruit market.

BLE/BZL: Bring strawberry plants out of hibernation now
Spring is starting and in the garden it is time to prepare strawberry plants for the new season. The Federal Agricultural Information Centre (BZL) reveals how, with a little care, the plants will

Cornwall’s Varfell Farms joins LEAF network
Varfell Farms, the world’s leading grower and packer of daffodil flowers and bulbs, was formally launched yesterday (28 March) as a LEAF Demonstration Farm in recognition of its cutting-edge

Grupo Agroponiente expects good spring season
In Almería, the spring season has begun. The Agroponiente group has been working with the producers for weeks on the overall production strategy. The harvest forecasts are well advanced and

Agrieuropa to increase parsley root and celeriac crops for the next winter season
"For the next winter campaign, we aim at increasing the production, cultivated areas, clients and markets of parsley roots and celeriac," reports Alberto Nocera, president of Agrieuropa in

“We put all our energy in the offshore melon season”
The US offshore season for melons kicked off early November. “We started with bringing in melons from the Zacapa Valley in Guatemala,” says Mark Cassius, President of Sol Group Marketing, a

Low or high tunnels for growing raspberries
Raspberry is a species whose cultivation in plastic tunnels has been growing intensively in recent years. These crops are being grown in both low and high plastic tunnels. Many of the farms that