Fruit Cleaning Service offers alternative for soft fruit with a quality problem

ARRA program answers Passion demand in grape market

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Bart Nemegheer, De Aardappelhoeve, Belgium

“I think we'll have moved all our potatoes by season's end”

STM BIO:

“Our goal goes beyond organic sales, we grow and market products and varieties from recognized exceptional terroir”

Start of the asparagus season:

First domestic and Greek shipments are coming onto the market

Fruit Cleaning Service offers alternative for soft fruit with a quality problem

'Soon 40,000 substrate bales in the mountains,' announced a producer

Drop in demand for Cardoncelli mushrooms, but plans are in place for the coming months

United Seaways launches a Brexit busting route from Morocco to the UK

Antonio Agudo, of El Melonero: "We expect fewer volumes of Senegalese melons and watermelons"

Spain receives the first watermelons from Senegal

Koen Merkus (Fresh Forward): "Weather severely affecting Spanish strawberry season"

"More and more European retailers want to sell Calinda under its variety name"

Fruit importer Fred Ringwald looks back on an average Spanish citrus season

"Large-caliber Powells are popular with the retailers"

Special Australia / New Zealand

Global Focus Bananas

Westfalia’s Mozambican litchi programme brings the sweet taste of success

Limpopo hot pepper grower looks to export

Deputy Director General of FAO will be present

First Southern Hemisphere Fresh Fruit Trade Congress- "Keeping the world supplied"

Nigel Jenney - FPC comments on Chancellor’s budget announcement

"Without guaranteed financial support some wholesale fresh produce businesses won’t be there to supply their customers when they want to re-open"

Miguel Gonzalez, MG Fruit, the Netherlands:

"Watermelon prices have been great for weeks, pineapple market remains worrisome"

Scotland is sitting on a store of potatoes

Wouter Snippe, WeGrowOrganic:

“We want to be able to supply Dutch organic onions year-round”

Demand for Kissabel® outstrips supply

Dennis Blankendaal, Frysk Witlof:

"Moderate chicory prices on the market, but confident of an upturn"

JBT Corporation acquires label inspection/verification systems provider

Domestic Moldovan grape prices up due to Romanian demand

Restrictions in the hospitality industry hinder the campaign in Aragon

"Black truffle producers were unable to cover production costs this year"

Researchers develop an AI system that allows greenhouses to operate without human intervention

The Minister of Agriculture, Luis Planas, visited the Murcian cooperative Hoyamar

"The products of Murcia are fundamental for Spain, the orchard of Europe"

Switzerland: Grob Gemüsebau fights for geothermal energy project

Pilot project with thermal water to be approved for the long term

A new name on the fruit stage: Vrugteboom

US: 2021 organic apple and pear import program kicks off

New Zealand expects largest ever kiwifruit harvest

Remembering the “Mango King”

Banana growers call for urgent Government assistance

Virtual town hall

How PMA helps increase diversity and inclusion in the produce industry

Growing regions and varieties of mangoes shifting

A couple of Brazilian lawyers quit their jobs in Belo Horizonte to grow shiitake in Nova Lima

Across global product offering

Tropical grower embraces shelf-life extending technology

NZ: Moving tomatoes into next-gen tech

Vanguard South Africa

Update on South Africa’s apple and pear crops

Driscoll’s Miles and Brie Reiter discuss past, present and future of their business

Rosselkhoznadzor allows imports of apples, tomatoes from some Azerbaijani enterprises

Agricola Famosa and Citri & Co join forces to become a world benchmark in the fresh fruit market

Shipping route launched to export Egyptian crops to Russia

Kazakhstan is looking for $9.5 billion in agricultural investments by 2025

In the same period, Spanish tomato sales to the EU fell by 21.68%

Moroccan tomato sales to the European Union have increased by 26.38% in the last 5 years

Under pressure to find new markets after Chinese pineapple ban

Taiwan will export large shipment of pineapples to Australia in May

PlayStation

Sony files patent for ‘banana’ as PS5 controller

Retail

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