Booming fruit trade at China-Vietnam Youyi border post
Imported fruit passing through Pingxiang’s Youyi Port was up 246% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2023, reaching 643,400 tons. Youyi Port Customs has supervised the import of 61,000 tons of

Late spring rain damages Hungary’s early 2023 cherry crop
Heavy late spring rain across Hungary last week caused significant cracking damage to early season cherry orchards. “The damage is reportedly widespread, even some sweet cherries under plastic

"Maintaining the same quality standards is a challenge in cherry tomatoes"
"The tomato and cherry tomato supply continues to increase in the European markets, not only from Spain but from many countries, so competition is greater, and prices are falling because there is

NWCG releases round one estimate
Around 20m cartons of cherries could be packed in the US Pacific Northwest this season. That’s according to industry association Northwest Cherry Growers, which represents growers from the

Solutions to improve the preparation of blueberries for sale
Rising production costs of blueberries, require growers to implement solutions that significantly reduce them, often concerning the number of people employed for harvesting (mechanical harvesting)

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

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

Dynamicznie rozwijający się handel owocami na chińsko-wietnamskim przejściu granicznym Youyi
Import owoców przechodzących przez port Youyi w Pingxiang wzrósł o 246% rok do roku w pierwszym kwartale 2023 roku, osiągając 643 400 ton. Służby celne portu Youyi

"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

"A load of potatoes there, and back with pallets"
It has been four and a half years since Van der Windt acquired the pallet and container business Wipal. These are both Dutch companies. Van der Windt's various branches have been active in potato

Conditioning soil tired from years of raspberry cultivation
Many farms specialising in raspberry growing and producing top-quality fruit have been facing the same problem for years. This is the shortage of soil on which to plant successive plots. As a

A novelty broccoli-themed truck rolled into a nursery in Luton to encourage children to eat fruit and veg
Top 5 supermarket retail chains in Slovenia Here's an overview of the top five supermarket retail chains in Slovenia, according to their most recently-available full-year turnover. All data is

Agrovoltaics on raspberries, blackberries, currants and asparagus in the Netherlands – the largest project in Europe announced
GroenLeven has started constructing Europe’s largest softfruit covering agri-PV project. When this unique project is complete, Dutch grower Maarten van Hoof, who cultivates raspberries,

Ancient mulberry forests bring white mulberry varieties
Have you ever seen white mulberries? In Xiajin Town, in Dezhou City, Shandong Province in Eastern China, there is an important historical agriculture tradition of the production and processing of

Доминиканская Республика ожидает новостей о программе предварительного просвечивания овощей
Выращиватели и грузоотправители в Доминиканской Республике с оптимизмом ждут плана действий, который

"It's a chronicle of a death foretold"
Afrucat has held a press conference in a nectarine plantation in Castellserà that clearly shows the effects of the closure of the Urgell Canal. The trees are getting rid of their dehydrated

Tough times for Peruvian asparagus
Peru’s asparagus producers are living through challenging times according to a report by fresh produce consultancy Fresh Fruit Peru. Once the star of the country’s fruit and vegetable export

Blueberries are thriving, but there are problems (plantation monitoring, 21.05.2023)
On blueberry plantations, almost all varieties are in full bloom, only the late-blooming varieties are a little slower. After the recent rainy spell, growers are mainly thinking about protection

"In Europe we are in the middle of a very important leap in the quality change of cherries"
The cherry season is starting with the first extra-early fruits, whose quality, in many cases, is not the one expected by an increasingly volatile market in terms of consumption and prices, and

Shift among growers in India from traditional Thompson to Crimson variety
The Indian grape season is wrapping up to a close. According to Amit Chopde, CEO of Indian fresh produce exporter Chopde Farms and Exports, the season has been quite successful, and was extended

QS develops benchmark report for the food retail sector
For more than 20 years, the blue QS test mark has been a clear signal to consumers in food retailing on meat and sausage products as well as on fruit, vegetables and potatoes for safe food from