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OVERVIEW GLOBAL KAKI MARKET

In September / October, the kaki harvest started again in the Northern Hemisphere. In recent days, the demand has been increasing, so traders have been obtaining good prices…

Mohamed Shaaban on the Egyptian orange season

“We’ll have to make sure the orange quality is premium for the Japanese market”

The Egyptian orange season has recently started and due to the coronavirus, demand is quite high. Volumes are similar to last year, but one exporter expects to ship about…

Covid-19: 50% of South Africa’s watermelon market gone as tourism suffers

Game farmers and hunting operators turn their hand to watermelons

Covid-19 has hit the watermelon market hard. Where usually a holiday resort like Sun City in South Africa’s Northwest Province would be taking thousands of watermelons every…

Global Plant Genetics

Improved raspberry varieties for Moroccan and Tunisian producers

Global Plant Genetics has announced that it recently extended its raspberry representation contract with James Hutton Ltd. This means that the company is now able to…

Biofortified crops have a key role to play in COVID-19 response

COVID-19 has presented many challenges to agriculture this year, but those challenges are also providing lessons that can be used to strengthen smallholder…

Egyptian onion has low demand in Kerala

Egyptian onion has low demand in Kerala; price remains high for Indian variety. As the government has no hope to control the price by importing onion from…

EU tariffs on US sweet potatoes increase 25%

The European Union brought in $4 billion of tariffs earlier this month in retaliation for US subsidies for Boeing, the move was approved by the World Trade Organisation. The…

Mission Jumbos

Avocado producer and distributor launches Jumbo avocados

Mission Produce, Inc., who source, produce, and distribute fresh avocados, announced the launch of Mission Jumbos, a pack full of larger, shareable avocados that offer more to…

Melons, rambutan and papaya

Hurricane Iota causes shipping delays for produce out of Guatemala and Honduras

This week, Central America faced another hurricane only two weeks after Hurricane Eta raged through the region. Making landfall on Monday evening in Nicaragua, Hurricane Iota…

New Israeli persimmon orchards in Campania

In a globalized market where there is increasing competition between countries, the produce needs to stand out in order to be competitive - the same rules apply to persimmons.…

Special Wholesale markets

Seeka on the impact of the coronavirus on New Zealand’s produce wholesale environment

“Avocado demand dropped so low that we stopped picking in the orchards”

Although Covid-19 has remained relatively under control in New Zealand, the pandemic has had an effect on the fresh produce business in this region. Some categories have…

Global focus citrus

Tim Wehmeyer (Fruchtimport Schmidt) on exclusive citrus brand Numen Nature

"Untreated Spanish leaf clementines can be sold well into February"

The winter season has begun and thus the supply of European citrus fruit is increasing rapidly. In addition to the 'standard' oranges, clementines and lemons, untreated citrus…

"Can we compete if this keeps going like this?"

Growers notice concerning workforce trends amid Australian horticulture labour shortage

A table grape grower in Victoria says the COVID-19 pandemic has created a generation of "job hoppers" who are pushing for better conditions and pay, which is further…

Record harvest for California walnuts have shippers mulling options

California walnuts are having a record harvest year. “It’s still too early to give a total crop size. But the objective estimate that came out this year at the beginning of…

TropiFoods developing the cassava and sweet potato sectors in Latin America

"We’ve created new opportunities for the 300 farmers we work with"

‘Yuca’, or cassava, may not yet be at the top of every European consumer’s shopping list. However, Costa Rican producer TropiFoods is excited to see this star product gaining…

Total Produce Ireland achieves Origin Green Gold Accreditation in inaugural year

Total Produce Ireland has today been awarded the prestigious Origin Green Gold standard in an online ceremony hosted in Dublin. Origin Green is the world’s only national food…

OrriApp implements new functionalities

Orri Running Committee extends control of its mandarins to all links in the value chain

OrriApp, the first mobile application designed to identify plots that are exploiting protected varieties of citrus fruits without proper authorization, specifically the ORRI…

Blueberry volume grows by 7%, but raspberries fall by 10%

Acreage devoted to berries in Huelva remains stable in the 2020/21 campaign

The total area planted with berries in the Spanish province of Huelva for the 2020/2021 campaign is 11,630 hectares; a very similar figure to the 11,751 hectares of berries…

on-demand stock packaging in box quantities

"Webshop offers broader online presence serving key markets"

Macpac is no stranger to selling online through its website. For over 4 years the Stockport–based thermoformer has sold its highly successful Plantpac range on a digital…

Celebrating three years of Sortex FA PolarVision

Since its launch in 2017, Bühler’s Sortex FA PolarVision range, which features the highest capacity optical sorter in the individually quick frozen (IQF) fruit and vegetables…

Extend shelf life of perishables

EverFresh® active controlled-atmosphere system now offers CO2 injection option

Carrier Transicold’s EverFresh® active controlled-atmosphere system for refrigerated containers now offers a new carbon dioxide (CO2) injection option to better preserve…

Mushroom cultivation produces three times its weight in waste. It’s now being turned into burgers and fertiliser

Cultivating mushrooms produces a lot of waste. For every kilogram of mushrooms produced, about three kilograms of soil-like material containing straw, manure and peat is left…

Argentina

INTA develops nine varieties of seedless table grapes

The National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) has developed nine varieties of seedless table grapes. These varieties have already been registered in…

Pacific Islanders in on-farm quarantine trial under review before more arrivals

Emerald grape farm manager Douw Van Der Merwe said the business would have lost millions of dollars in rotten fruit if it had not been able to secure…

New Australia-NZ Export Plan to bear fruit

The new agreement with New Zealand opens up horticultural market access opportunities for Australian fruit and vegetable producers.The plan will help reduce…

Organto announces record third quarter results

Organto an integrated provider of organic and value-added organic fruits and vegetables today announced financial results for the third quarter ended September…

Early Chilean cherry prices in China considerably higher

Recently, imported cherries, the winter fruit star product, made their way onto the Chinese market. It is reported that the price of Chilean cherries this year…

Japan to nurture production areas for farm exports

The government plans to launch a program aimed at nurturing communities that grow farm and fishery products exclusively for export, informed sources said…

Pakistan develops two new varieties of banana

Pakistan has achieved a breakthrough in banana production, as the country’s apex agricultural research institution has developed two varieties of the fruit for…

Peru establishes the requirements for importing mandarins and fresh oranges from Spain

Peru has published Directorial Resolution No. 0019-2020-Minagri-Senasa-DSV, which establishes the mandatory phytosanitary requirements for the importation of fresh mandarin…

Can mangoes reduce wrinkles?

Mangoes, like other orange fruits and vegetables, are rich in beta-carotene and provide antioxidants that may delay cell damage. A new study from researchers at the University of…

Trends in the nut industry

Growing demand for all types of nuts

Megatrends in the global nut industry Global demand for nut categories such as macadamia continues to grow faster than supply, while hazelnuts and peanut…

Finister Investments

AgriFood Tech investment continues to climb amid pandemic

AgriFood Tech Investment Continues to Climb Amid Pandemicby Arama Kukutai (Cofounder and Partner) and Ingrid Fung (Investment Director). Despite the current political climate…

'Why you should eat a banana every day'

All of us are aware of the common English proverb “An apple a day keeps the doctor away”. But one question that this popular saying raises is that is it the…

Retail

Bestway has partnered with Jisp

Morrisons: New 'Market Kitchen'

China: Dada Group net revenue up 85.5% in Q3Dada Group, China's leading local on-demand delivery and retail platform reported its net revenue reached 1.3bln yuan ($197.6mln)…

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