Do not reply to this email. Send your response to [email protected].

Tuesday, January 5, 2021
EUROPE

Our team

Sander Bruins Slot
Email

Nichola McGregor
Email

Nick Peters
Email

Annika Durinck
Email

Job Offers

Chief Executive Officer

Greenhouse grower / production manager

Assistant Professor of Protected Agricultural Systems Design (Tenure-Track) - USA

Grower Tomato Crops - Huron (Ohio) USA

(Junior) Grower - King George (VA) USA

Commercial Manager | Fresh Produce | Germany

Technical Manager - Fresno or Bakersfield (CA) USA

Retail Account Manager Italië

Grower / Head Grower Canada

Maintenance Engineer (CA, USA)

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…

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…

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…

Azura Group

Azura Group puts 100% CO₂-neutrality on tomato packaging

By the end of 2020, the tomato production of ‘farm to fork’ by the Azura Group will be one hundred percent CO₂-neutral. According to the family-run French-Moroccan company,…

Dutch onion trading company goes bust; online auction of inventory and machinery

The Dutch potato trading company, A.C. Loogman, has to close its doors. There was some serious interest in it from several parties. Despite this, it seems it…

COEXPHAL continues to work to streamline the administrative procedures of its exporters

Almeria's producers happy with post-Brexit agreement

The Association of Organizations of Fruit and Vegetable Producers of Almería, COEXPHAL, is happy with the agreement reached for post-Brexit commercial…

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

BelOrta ends 2020 off with a EUR 480 million turnover

The year 2020 will undoubtedly go down in history as one of the most turbulent of recent times. So says Philippe Appeltans, Managing Director (MD) of BelOrta in Belgium. The…

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…

Daily Onions BV and Daily Import Ltd

Dutch company begins new business in England to import onions to the UK

"We're pleased to have sent our first shipment of onions to the UK this weekend," say Adriaan van Belzen and Laurens Mostert of Daily Onions in the Netherlands. Despite…

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…

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…

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…

Moroccan exporters speak of Russian protectionism

Morocco examines local exporters due to Russian tomato ban

Morocco’s National Food Safety Office (ONSSA) has stepped up the monitoring of Moroccan tomato exporters, attempting to overcome an ongoing Russian ban. Russia…

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…

Schwab-Guillod invests in sustainable transport solutions

Swiss fruit trader goes for hydrogen trucks

Some 20 years ago, the fuel cell was touted as the undisputed technology of the future. At the time, it was inconceivable to many that trucks without diesel engines would be…

Production costs for oranges and mandarins estimated at €0.23 / kg and €0.28 / kg

The Valencian Association of Agricultural Producers (AVA-ASAJA) has asked the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture “to stop announcing the making of more and more studies on the…

British pound faces rough weather as lockdowns spoil post-Brexit party

There seems to be a bumpy ride ahead for the British pound as tighter lockdown measures are expected to offset Brexit deal optimism that propelled the currency…

Ghana-UK statements on Continuity Trade Agreement

Ghana intent on affirming Post-Brexit trade deal with UK

The first consignment of Ghanaian shipments to the UK to encounter post-Brexit tariffs docked at Portsmouth last night, including 185 tons of bananas. Because…

Liqueur, gin and low-gin from strawberries and raspberries

"Fill in your date of birth to gain access to the website." This is not a request you will get while looking up tasty strawberries and raspberries on the internet. You will…

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…

Scotty Brand cuts 27 tons of plastic from its packaging

Scottish potato business Scotty Brand has cut almost 27 tons of plastic from its packaging in a year. The company said it introduced a slew of plastic-saving…

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…

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…

DBV Situation Report 2019/20:

Market power of the food trade is truly great

Food retailing in Germany is the largest sales channel for German food manufacturers. It achieved sales -including non-foodstuffs- of €252.7 billion in 2019. This is 2.0% more…

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…

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,…

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…

High prices decrease demand for exotic fruits in Moldova

In the last week of 2020, the range of exotic fruits and vegetables increased noticeably in Moldovan retail chains. The product line had grown by at least 20%.…

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,…

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…

Spanish fruit and veg exports worth 14,200 million Euro in 2020

Despite the challenges in 2020, the Spanish export of fresh fruits and vegetables has grown by 5% in terms of value, reaching a total of 14,200 million Euro,…

Murcia is Spain's leading lettuce exporter

Lettuce is the third most exported vegetable by Spain. In 2019, exports were worth 721 million Euro, while between January and October of last year their value…

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…

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 —…

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…

"There is a risk that a significant portion of apples will spoil in storage"

"Chinese apple reserve sets historical record"

The apple harvest of 2020 is already stored in warehouses. Farmers maintained a high asking price and were were unwilling to sell, which led to the volume in storage reaching…

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…

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…

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…

Chinese Fresh-key IoT monitoring equipment provides an excellent escort for cherry transport!

The outbreak of Covid-19 in the period leading up to Chinese Spring Festival [25 January, 2020] made it nearly impossible to go out and buy fresh fruit or to visit friends and…

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…

Republic of Georgia sees 14-fold increase of fresh apple exports

From early August to the end of December 2020, the Republic of Georgia exported 8,000 tons of apples: 14 times more than a year ago. According to the Ministry…

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…

Flowering cycle hurt by long monsoon

Maharashtra: Alphonso mangoes may hit markets 45 days late

Mango lovers will have to wait till mid-April to relish the highly prized Alphonso variety, as unusual weather patterns have impacted its flowering cycle in…

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…

Russia and Kazakhstan are leading importers of Uzbekistan’s fruits & vegetables

According to data from the first 11 months of 2020, Russia remains the largest consumer of Uzbek vegetables and fruits in value terms. According to the State…

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,…

FreshPlaza Funny

Peekaboo