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OVERVIEW GLOBAL GINGER MARKET

China is the largest ginger grower on the global market and has seen the demand for the product increase due to the pandemic. Heavy rainfall has also resulted in a large part…

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Lead Glasshouse Engineer - Brough, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

"Shekou port hopes to welcome first 'fast-ship' with cherries directly from Chile"

Shekou port in Shenzhen is one of the main fruit import cities in south China. The port mainly receives Asian goods such as dragon fruit, bananas, coconuts, longyans,…

“Indian consumers are convinced avocado will be the fruit of the future”

Pictures of the Indian floods have been shown on many news outlets, but these floods are not unusual for India. Heavy rains during the monsoon season replenish the water…

Export of Chinese pears from Hebei slows down

The Chinese market price of Hebei pears has been high for months. The main reasons include a reduction in production volume as the result of extreme weather conditions in…

The price shows a significant decline

Chinese import season of Australian and South African oranges is almost over

Most of the imported oranges on the Chinese market come from Australia and South Africa, and the latter dominates. The outbreak of Covid-19 was brought under…

Chinese domestic demand for garlic is growing stronger

The Chinese garlic price has seen continuous increase in the last two months. The price of fresh garlic doubled from 1 yuan [0.15 USD] to nearly 2 yuan [0.30…

More up-scale markets appearing in China

A new kind of market is starting to appear in big Chinese cities, appealing to a more well-off sector of the population and aiming also at receiving tourism groups. These…

Iran: Growing saffron in a vertical installation

Iran is responsible for most of the global saffron cultivation and they're proud of being the global supplier of what is known as the most expensive spice in the world. Since…

“It’s exciting that we’ll enter the Japanese market this year”

High demand for Egyptian citrus in Europe and Saudi ArabiaThe pandemic still brings a lot of uncertainty to the Egyptian citrus exporters, as they’ve been working on the Navel…

Northwest China: 500 tonnes of Luochuan apples exported to Italy

A shipment of 20 tonnes of apples from the city of Yan'an, in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, has been sent to Italy via cold-chain logistics. The apples,…

Special Automation

New vision technology for lower volume growers

When new technology is introduced to agriculture, it’s not always within reach of smaller growers. But that’s not the case with one new vision system that’s…

Global Focus Top Fruit

Jacques Banuls, of Edenys:

"The apple volumes are abundant in the southeast of France"

"Although the French apple harvest has not been great this year, we have abundant volumes in the south-east of the country, 10% above the productive potential," says Jacques…

Smaller crop but bigger Washington apples

Harvest is close to finishing on the Washington apple crop that is seeing a drop in overall volume this year. “However, the quality of our fruit is outstanding and we have…

Vietnam: Dong Thap province preserves endangered pink mandarin

The Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap has approved a project to preserve the specialty pink mandarin of its Lai Vung district. The fruit allegedly faces…

Transition in Chinese celtuce production areas driving prices down

At present, celtuce in the market mainly comes from Tai'an and Lanling in Shandong. Products from Xianghe, Tianjin, which were still in supply during the…

New Indian startup to curb onion wastage

Although India is the second-largest onion producer in the world, prices have been on a steady rise owing to heavy rainfall in some states and poor storage facilities in…

Malaysian Ministry guarantees adequate supply of onions

The Malaysian Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry has assured its people that the supply of onions will be sufficient, despite the ban on exports by…

Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar:

Indian government to release 100,000 tonnes of onion buffer stock to combat price hike

Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has stated that the federal government will release 100,000 tonnes of buffer stock of onions. The minister…

Sophie Ye, KX Food, Belgium

"High ginger prices expected until early 2021"

“After the recent extreme demand for ginger, things have died down a little now. However, that doesn't mean prices are dropping. On the contrary, ginger prices are very high.…

Justin Leonard - Jackie Leonard & Sons.

"We will lose the whole of November, usually a very busy time for us,”

Ireland has been back in full lock down for two weeks, prior to that different counties had different levels of lock down. The situation will be reviewed again on December…

Column Elena Malkova, Confidenca Coaching

"Involvement starts with the right communication"

"Last week I spoke with a director of a large organization about how he and his people are doing in the present situation. And although he was very positive about how his team…

Jordi Fijnheer, FruitPro, the Netherlands

“Israeli avocados benefitting from empty European market”

Israel sends large amounts of mangos and avocados to Europe. Jordi Fijnheer, Sales Manager at FruitPro, in the Netherlands, however, noticed that this year…

Henk van der Meij, Hars-Hagebauer, the Netherlands

“Brazil's preparing for mangos year-end push”

Sea freight mangos went through a hard time this summer. That’s according to Henk van der Meij of Hars-Hagebauer, a Dutch wholesaler that specializes in…

Wil Beekers, BerryWorld, The Netherlands

“Our new building should be 20% more efficient”

“After all these years, we were bursting at the seams. We even had to rent three additional locations. We needed sufficient capacity for storing and processing our soft fruit.…

With Cool Port II, Kloosterboer wants to provide more efficient return shipments soon

Unload fruit, load frozen French fries

Reefer containers filled with fruit arrive by ship at Cool Port I in Waalhaven, Rotterdam. The pallets are removed, and in future, the reefers will be loaded with frozen…

Drought worries Peruvian mango growers and exporters

The Peruvian mango season is set to start in the middle of November with the northern growing region of Piura. This start is a few weeks late, which is the result of cooler…

Late South African cherry crop eagerly awaited in Europe & UK

The European and UK markets are “very, very ready” for their first cherries (the more so because the harvest is a week to two later than last year) but the logistics of…

Zespri welcomes new Fresh Carriers vessel MV Kowhai into its shipping fleet

The New Zealand kiwifruit industry will be boosted by three specialised reefer vessels following significant investment by operator Fresh Carriers, underpinned by their…

Kenny Moran - The Avocado Company

Good quality avocados, but less big sizes from Chile

Avocado Company received the first Hass avocados from Chile mid-September, but hadn’t been seeing anything close to the volume they would have expected in the last month. In…

Spike in demand for California dates

Supplies of California dates are solid as the industry approaches the end of harvest. “I don’t predict any type of shortages for dates. It doesn’t mean that sales are down. It…

Fyffes North America wins award for "Easy to Eat, Easy to Pronounce" campaign

Fyffes North America "Easy to Eat, Easy to Pronounce" advertising campaign won Gold at the 2020 Summit Creative Awards in the Integrated Campaign, B2B category. This marks the…

Berry harvest under way with Tassie workers

The harvest of Costa’s Tasmanian berry crop has commenced with a newly recruited Tasmanian workforce. “We are looking forward to the new season and to date we have employed 69…

"When looking for innovative laser labeling for fresh produce, beware imitations! With almost 15 years’ experience LaserFood is the pioneer and undisputed leader of…

Fresh Summit’s “Best of Show” winners are announced

Produce Marketing Association announced the “Best of Show” awards this week, a Fresh Summit tradition of recognition that celebrates innovation and creativity in marketing and…

Key findings from the Impact Study of New Zealand's Recognised Seasonal Employer scheme

In the first of a series of blogs outlining Key Findings From The Impact Study Of New Zealand's Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) Scheme, Charlotte Bedford, Heather Nunns and…

$1.2 mln funding to support New York state specialty crops

New York State Agriculture Commissioner Richard A. Ball has funding of more than $1.2 million will support nine advanced research, education, and marketing…

'Solutions for food retailers facing seismic shift in consumer habits and spend'

Global logistics company C.H. Robinson is bringing supply chain expertise and technology to the aid of grocery retailers facing unprecedented demand and…

Ocean carrier schedule reliability drops to 2020 low

Schedule reliability of ocean carriers fell to 56 per cent in September. The on-time performance of Asia shipments to the US west and east coasts plunging…

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Uber Eats delivers groceries for Carrefour Belgium

Coviran has increased its market share in Portugal

Ireland: Tesco to create 450 permanent jobs nationwide in lead-up to ChristmasTesco Ireland has announced that it is to create 450 permanent jobs across the country, 120 of…

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