"We usually offer our mangoes until well into July"
Indian mango exports to Europe are now slowly but surely gaining momentum. "Our conventional mangoes from our own contract farming are flown in exclusively, as the produce is too fragile to

Spanish apricots bounce back
Spanish apricot production is set to broadly recover from last season’s devastating frosts. According to the latest forecasts from fruit association Afrucat, presented at Medfel this week,

The growth story behind avocados in the South Korean market
Demand for avocados in the Korean market has gone from "zero to hero", according to a company responsible for representing and building consumer brands in the country. Managing Director of

The season of local greenhouse tomatoes has started in Ukraine
The first wholesale batches of greenhouse tomatoes from local plants entered the Ukrainian market this week, analysts of the EastFruit project report. According to forecasts of market

Tomatoes remain big business
Worldwide imports of fresh and chilled tomatoes grew in both value and volume terms in 2021, with the US and Germany leading the way. According to the International Trade Centre’s (ITC) Trade

Strong demand despite higher prices for mangoes from India
The mango season in India has developed positively in April, says Yashwant Chakve Patil, director of Indian fruit exporter AA Reyach International: “Over the past month, the demand for our

Large attendance for the first morning of medFEL
The 2023 edition of medFEL opened its doors at the exhibition center of Perpignan on Wednesday, April 26th. The attendance was good on the first morning for the opening of the event. For two days,

The European apricot production is recovering
The traditional medFEL crop predictions were revealed this morning. 2021 was a catastrophic year for the European apricots due to the frost that affected all production basins and caused

Spring onions from Egypt suspected in 2021 Danish E. coli outbreak
Spring onions from Egypt were likely behind a deadly E. coli outbreak in Denmark in 2021, according to researchers. Between November and December 2021, the first recorded outbreak of

Apulian table grapes, rain smiles on the bunches
The first bunches of grapes are also beginning to appear in Apulia and, although it is still too early to make forecasts, the sentiment among producers can be perceived. Antonio Cantatore, sales

The Spanish apricot harvest is up 52%.
Europe has seen some frosts in Greece and northern Italy and has been affected by the lack of cold hours during the winter, which has caused an overall drop of 7% in the apricot crop forecast

Mazzarrone grapes: the crisis leads to seedless varieties
Sicily's table grape segment is starting to get ready for the next season, and so is the area protected by the PGI mark. Fruits are growing and millerandage has started. However, after a terrible

“We’re on target to clock double the volume of the 2022 mango season”
The Indian mango production is still quite high this season, despite the unseasonal rains in February, Kaushal Khakhar, CEO of Indian fresh produce exporter Kay Bee Exports, states. “As

medFEL: European apricot harvest expected to be minus seven percent in 2023
For more than ten years, the southern French fair has been an important date in the calendars of national and international industry experts. Not least, certainly, because in addition to the good

"Good sales of Peruvian pomegranates, especially a shortage of large sizes"
Last year, the Peruvian grower Complejo Agroindustrial Beta started a European sales office on the Dutch market, called Beta Best Produce. The company has a cultivation area of ​​5,500