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Africa Fruit Export Sales Manager - South Africa

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Horticulture Statistics Handbook

Value growth in key fruit sectors helps push Australian horticulture value over $15billion

Continued growth in the apple and berry sectors has helped the Australian horticulture industry pass the $15billion value milestone, according to the latest data in the…

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Africa Fruit Export Sales Manager - South Africa

Tech firm appoints major berry producer as Queensland agent

South Australia's Agricultural Picking Technology (APT)has appointed leading Sunshine Coast berry grower and propagator Paradise Fruits Enterprise Pty Ltd as Queensland agent…

Costa Group Holdings Ltd

Costa Group Holdings Ltd CY20 Results Presentation

Costa Group Holdings Ltd has released its CY20 Results Presentation on 22nd February 2021. Key Messages were that there was a strong full year result, with the points…

After Fruit Fly detection

Aldi, Coles & Woolworths stone fruits ‘on alert’ in South Australia

After fruit fly larvae were discovered in nectarines and peaches transported into South Australia from Victoria, authorities have issued a warning to consumers…

Looking back over four years of vegetable export development

The Vegetable Export Development Program is due for completion in June 2021 and has delivered significant benefits to Australian vegetable growers, with the…

New Zealand export plan for Bay cherries

New Zealand Summerfruit representative Richard Mills has explained that Hawke's Bay cherries mature earlier than South Island cherries, which helps export…

Makhoma Farms: Custard apples coming into season

John and Cassie Warren have grown custard apples on the Gin Gin multi-crop farm for six years. Makhoma Farms grows a variety of crops such as mangoes, lychees,…

Balancing the Australian environment whilst growing food futures

The Northern Territory Farmers Association has partnered with ORDCO to bring Australia's key stakeholders, thought leaders and investors together to…

Michiel Minnaar: "Successful test with Otflow on mangos from Peru to Europe"

Cold weather puts Otflow to the test

Last week, Otflow, in collaboration with a leading exotics exporter, conducted a test with Otflow, a special eleven-meter-long floor-cover made from recycled and…

In particular from North America and Europe

High demand for Argentinian pears this season

Argentina’s pear harvest started with normal timing between weeks two and three this season. The season always kicks off with the Williams Bartlett pear, which is the main…

Special Asia

New appreciation for Kyoto’s heirloom vegetables

Vegetables unique to the Kyoto area are often called Kyo-yasai. One factor that makes Kyo-yasai unique is their size. They are usually quite large. Many are…

Global Focus Organics

Dreamtime.com

Romanian consumers spend RON650 million on organic food yearly

Romanian consumers spend about 650 million lei (€137 mln) on organic food (or 1.2% of the entire spending on food in the country), ZF has calculated from the data supplied by…

Rectification grape update Vanguard International

This past Wednesday, Vanguard International published an update on the grape market in the southern hemisphere. One of the key growing countries, Peru, was…

William Nannes, J.P. Beemsterboer Food Traders, the Netherlands:

Farmers' and bale prices don't match at all"

The Dutch onion market is currently split. "Demand isn't great, but prices are firmly set. Farmers' and bale prices don't match at all. Much is based on the…

Free stock of onions 10% lower than multiple year average

In the past week, VTA has had the second stock inventory for onions carried out among its members for the 2020 - 2021 season. The main conclusions at the moment are: The…

Chinese grape market exceptionally fastidious this season

South African grapes: “It’s not a vintage year”

There’s just not been strong demand from any market in the Far East for table grapes, traders say, and in China they’re hoping the many containers of Chilean cherries that…

Bogdány Petrol Ltd.

Protecting the orchards with anti-frost candles

Bogdány Petrol is producing special, paraffin based wax and oil products for the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, wood, metal, cable, printing and fertilizer industries world-wide.…

SmartPac

Protective packaging for small fruits and more

Intensive productions require particular attention to safeguard them, especially if we are talking about small fruits such as blueberries. Packaging is essential as, if…

Ernst Slabbekoorn, frostfans.eu, the Netherlands

"Mobile night frost machine is quiet and protects crops well against night frost”

In recent years, between March and May, many European growers have had to increasingly deal with night frost. Since last year, Swift International has been distributing mobile…

Maurits van de Water (Van de Water Fruit Group) on Burg MachineFabriek installations

"Water purification installation always worth it for more than ten channels"

The busiest weeks for sorting Sweet Sensation pears have arrived at Van de Water Fruit Group in Waalwijk. The fruit is sorted on a 2x four-track machine from Perfect with…

Corné van Liere, of ISM Machinery:

"We have everything in-house to design and engineer custom fresh produce processing and packaging lines"

In the three years that the firm ISM Machinery has been established in its new business premises on the De Poel industrial estate in Goes, the company has undergone…

Texas logistics stabilize, crop damage still being assessed

While the weather in Texas is currently back up to comfortable levels, the cold snap of last week has caused many challenges for the produce industry. Not only are growers…

GOCITRUS

Markers revolutionize the procurement, registration, nurseries, and varietal identification of the citrus sector

The term PCR, which is widely used nowadays to refer to the most reliable diagnostic method to detect COVID-19, is based on the same technology that is drastically changing…

Research reveals opportunity for UK blueberries

Retail analysis carried out by Delytics Ltd in collaboration with James Hutton Ltd has identified a premium branding opportunity for blueberries in the UK. The analysis…

Dole Launches Sunshine For All Fund Fueling Innovation to close the gaps on good nutrition

Just over six months after issuing The Dole Promise to the world, Dole Asia Holdings and its subsidiaries are focusing on both global awareness and immediate action with the…

First edition of Morocco Berry Conference to take place on 7 and 8 April

The first Edition of the Morocco Berry Conference gathered more than 550 delegates from around 25 countries. It was a great occasion to learn, meet, interact,…

Suning Carrefour China: Home-delivery orders up 50%

Data recently released by Suning Carrefour show that consumption was strong during the Chinese New Year holiday period. Especially, online home-delivery orders…

Peruvian agricultural products exported to 140 markets

The latest data released by Adex show that Peru’s total export value of agricultural products in 2020 will be 7.487 billion U.S. dollars, showing an increase…

Thailand plans to export fruit to China with a total value exceeding 2.3 billion USD

China and Thailand sign strategic cooperation agreement to promote fruit trade

According to the People's Daily, the Thai-Chinese Chamber of Commerce (ThaiCC) recently signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Chinese International…

Ministry of Health - Czech Republic

Produce checks largely compliant in Czech Republic

According to data published by the Ministry of Health in the Czech Republic, just 10 of almost 800 samples taken during food safety inspections were…

Vegetable prices also down in Telangana

Arrival of first crop forces vegetable prices down in Tamil Nadu

With 420 trucks arriving at Koyambedu (Chennai) daily, the prices of all vegetables have decreased by about 20 per cent. This trend is expected to continue…

Maharashtra, India

Seven years of research results in new banana variety

After seven years of research, the Jalgaon Banana Research Centre (BRC) -under the Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth (MPKV)- has come up with a new kind of…

Retail

Dreamstime

Navis Capital Partners is exploring a sale of The Food Purveyor

Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd are to merge their e-commerce activities in Germany

Majid Al Futtaim taps IBM blockchain for food traceability at Carrefour storesCarrefour will use blockchain to enable food traceability across the supply chain. Majid Al…

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