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Workers block highway, protesting police violence

Confrontation between farm workers and police results in three deaths in Peru

Last week, farm workers demanding better wages clashed with police on a Peru's Pan-American highway, leaving at least 3 people dead and 24 injured in a dispute over reforms to…

Mexican orange cultivation faces difficult recovery this year

Mexican orange production is expected to partially recover in 2020/21 after drought cut last year's harvest by nearly 40%. A full recovery is unlikely as the…

Chile-UK Association Agreement enters into operation

As of January 1, with the UK having left the European Union, the Association Agreement between Chile and the United Kingdom has entered into operation. This…

Ecuadorian bananas start 2021 with a new price scheme

The new scheme for setting the price of a box of bananas for export in Ecuador, which was approved by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG) at the…

The United States simplifies the entry of cucurbits from Panama

The National Director of Plant Health of the Ministry of Agricultural Development, Olegh Aguilar, stated that the United States had eased the requirements for…

Russia rejects 23 tons of Ecuadorian bananas

Russia has banned a large batch of bananas from Ecuador, as apparently 23 tons are infected with the polyphagous humpback fly, found in the port of…

Chinese market price of Chilean cherries is coming down

Chilean cherries were already trending last year, but this year the Covid-19 pandemic delayed the start of the Chilean cherry sea-freight season by two weeks.…

Less foodservice demand for passionfruit affects pricing minimally

Supplies of passionfruit right now are solid. “We have a good supply of passionfruit. We have enough volume to cover all of the demand and a bit more,” says…

Roland Wirth, FRIGOTEC Kälte- und Verfahrenstechnik LLC:

"Softripe is more than an alternative to coating processes"

A truly extraordinary year has drawn to a close. In many places, companies are looking back on a turbulent year, in which the COVID pandemic has brought many challenges. For…

Heavy rain damages Orange River grape crop, while Western Cape is unaffected

Heavy rainfall in the Northern Cape – over 100mm over the past two days in some places – has gladdened the hearts of most in this arid area, but for the table grape producers…

Special Latin America

Marco Ortega, commercial director of Kion Export: "We have increased planting by 15% for 2021"

The boom in the global demand for organic ginger is strengthening Peru as a supplier

Peru has been gaining ground in the global ginger market in recent years and become the world's fourth largest exporter of this vegetable, whose demand has experienced a…

Global Focus Grapes

ASOEX's first estimate for the 2020/21 season

"Chilean table grape exports will grow by almost 13%"

The President of the Association of Fruit Exporters of Chile AG (ASOEX), Ronald Bown Fernandez, stated that last week, the export grape industry had made this…

WAPA

WAPA - Final stock figures December

WAPA have updated that latest apple and pear production figures. The December 2020 final stock figures for the Northern Hemisphere are now available on the WAPA website

Robert Doig - Caledonian Potatoes

EU derogation to export seed potatoes into the UK - "a manifest injustice"

Discussions have been ongoing with the European Commission on the subject of third country equivalence for plant reproductive material, plant health…

International Year of Fruits and Vegetables 2021

The FAO has just launched the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables. Throughout 2021, several activities and events will be organized all over the world…

AMIA - Crop Forecasts

Australian mangoes hit Christmas peak as many regions begin winding down crop harvests

The Australian mango industry experienced its December peak in the week leading into Christmas. National crop forecast figures, released by the Australian Mango Industry…

Canadian apple company introduces biodegradable packaging

New packaging has been launched for Red Prince apples, a Canadian apple grown by the Blue Mountain Fruit Co. that’s harvested in the fall but not sold until the winter. The…

A video shows the creation of artificial rain by Contec Srl

New irrigation system with concrete poles

For the company Contec, 2021 will be a year marked by innovation. Indeed, an innovative system for creating artificial rain is being developed and new subsidiaries will be…

Yuksel Catalog

New tomato, pepper, cucumber, and eggplant varieties

Yuksel Seeds presents new innovations to its extensive catalog of varieties, with a strong focus on pear tomatoes, a segment in which its Marcus F1 variety is well-known…

Berry executive joins global importer/exporter’s advisory board

Long-time berry industry executive Felipe Juillerat has joined the advisory board of global fresh fruit company Terra Exports. Juillerat, best known for his…

PMA executive departs to lead peanut industry organization

Produce Marketing Association’s Richard Owen will leave his position to become the next president and CEO of the American Peanut Council. His position with the…

EU amends maximum residue limits for pesticides in certain products

According to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 [1], Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs) are the upper levels of pesticide residues that are legally permissible in, or on,…

Americold Realty Trust closes acquisition of Agro Merchants Group

Americold Realty Trust, a publicly traded REIT focused on the ownership, operation, acquisition, and development of temperature-controlled warehouses, today…

Enabled through combined efforts of APEDA and state officials

Eastern Uttar Pradesh: Fruit and vegetable exports branched out amid COVID crisis

As many Indian vegetable growers were facing losses due to dip in prices of their produce in local markets during the pandemic, some of them made inroads into…

Prices likely to remain under pressure

Higher acreage and better potato yields in Bengal & Uttar Pradesh

Potato production across the major growing States of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and West Bengal is likely to be higher this year on the back of an increase in the…

Ireland ups direct freight shipments to mainland Europe

Ireland is increasing its direct freight shipments to and from mainland Europe. Irish companies are trying anything to bypass potential skirmishes at UK ports…

Police officer foils avocado heist in central Israel

Israeli police officials have announced that they arrested a suspect last Saturday who was trying to steal 680 kilograms of avocados from a kibbutz in the…

Precision Agriculture: Drones detecting infected citrus trees create new opportunities

Israeli company Agrowing Ltd. has already established itself when it comes to enabling powerful horticultural tools. The provider of AI-enabling multispectral…

Cooperative of pitaya growers in Huelva sees membership double

Pitaya production is starting to take off in the Spanish province of Huelva. The president of Huelva's first pitaya production cooperative, Alberto Garrocho,…

The EU is considering banning an active ingredient used in the fight against South Africa's "cotonet"

The agrarian organization AVA-Asaja has reported that the European Union "is considering banning" the active phytosanitary substance sulfoxaflor, an…

Ukraine was one of the largest importers of potatoes in 2020

Ukraine is officially considered to be one of the three leaders in the production of potatoes, while at the same time being one of the largest importers of…

UK: Many orders were running 24 hours late on the first day of the new Brexit trade agreement

Traders at London’s wholesale fruit and vegetables market, New Spitalfields, said yesterday food had been getting through from the continent but that many…

Quantitative challenge

Please note: when ordering sprouts from @Tesco online, quantity 1 does not mean 1 bag of sprouts. It means 1 sprout. Thank you and good night pic.twitter.com/gATF5jGRpj —…

US cherry industry working to open export opportunities to Taiwan

US cherry farmers started 2020 with a disappointing decision from the International Trade Commission on imports from Turkey. Now, they’ve ended the year with…

Retail

Dreamstime

Metro AG has announced the takeover of Davigel Spain

Aldi: Record Christmas sales

UK: Morrisons' sales rise 8.1% in latest trading periodMorrisons, Britain’s fourth largest supermarket group, reported a rise in underlying sales in its latest trading period,…

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