Cameron Highland vegetable farmers urge Public Works Dept to keep roads open
Malaysian vegetable farmers are angry over a proposal by the Pahang Public Works Department (PWD) to ban heavy vehicles transporting the produce on narrow and congested Cameron Highlands roads on

Currant future - webinar on 2 March
What does the currant future hold? Everyone would like to know the answer to this question. Or at least anyone involved in currant growing. The market for both black and red currants has been very

"Morning orders reach British wholesale markets that same night"
Brexit undoubtedly caused logistical challenges for European fruit and vegetable exports in recent years. "Systems lagged significantly," says Dutch company Freight Line Europe sales manager

'Development of organic mushrooms is particularly pleasing'
Despite a slight decline in the overall Swiss market from 13,537t in 2021 to 12,906t in 2022, Swiss mushroom cultivation is still on track. Particularly pleasing is the development of Swiss

"We hope to return to normal production.
Fruit Today has gone over the consequences of this season with Cirilo Arnandis, president of the D.O. Kaki Ribera del Xúquer, which can be described as unusual in terms of product availability.

Vegetable yields down 12% in 2022 compared record year 2021
Roughly 6,100 agricultural holdings in Germany harvested a total of 3.8 million tonnes of vegetables in 2022. Yields were down 12% compared to 2021 and were 2% lower than the average of 2016 to

Oishii Introduces the Koyo berry
Vertical farming specialist Oishii has announced the launch of the Koyo berry, the newest varietal grown by the strawberry brand. The Koyo berry will join the Omakase Berry as Oishii’s second

Organic cultivation drops for the first time since 2012
In 2022, around 6,100 farms in Germany harvested a total of 3.8 million tons of vegetables. This was 12% less than in 2021 and 2% less than the average for the years 2016 to 2021. In addition to a

"Celeriac market at a tipping point"

Green Afrique Tech promotes high-value fruit cultivation
Bulawayo company Green Afrique Technologies, which produces passion fruit, is now looking at producing the kiwano horned melon (amagaki/magaka) and dragon fruit. According to chief executive

Eastern Europe: Overview of the regional onion market
Participants of the fruit and vegetable market accepted the fact that wholesale prices for onions in Ukraine reached $1/kg, as EastFruit analysts forecasted back in mid-January. This happened in

Russian growers ask to limit potato imports
The Potato Union at a meeting at the Ministry of Agriculture proposed to limit the import of potatoes to Russia. Russian potato growers are faced with a marketing problem; warehouses have

Bid on various high-quality food processing machines
Industrial Auctions is organizing an interesting auction in Nordelph (UK) on behalf of Fountain Group Ltd. The offer consists, for example, of mixers, vegetable slicers, depositors, denesters,

Ample strawberries puts pricing to promotable levels
A good volume of strawberries is available right now. “Most of the volume we’d been expecting and waiting for came right before Valentine’s with the bulk of the product coming on now. So

"The season will start again properly for us at the start of March"
After a long winter period during which Coöperatie Hoogstraten worked with 10 percent of volume compared to other years, the first larger volumes of Hoogstraten strawberries are slowly but surely

ToBRFV-resistant cherry pear and bouquet tomato varieties
The Tomato Brown Rugose Virus (ToBRFV) is one of the main challenges that the tomato-producing sector has been facing in recent years. Since its appearance in 2015, Semillas Fitó has been working

Cold weather pushes Mexican colored bell pepper peak production back
Cooler weather in Mexico has slowed down production on colored bell peppers. “We’re just about to turn the corner in Sinaloa,” says JC Myers, vice-president sales and marketing for SunFed