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Export Development Manager - Avocados Australia, Brisbane

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Pandemic has big impact on Egyptian spring onion season

“Spring onion orders for next season are already lower than they were last year”

The spring onions in Egypt have been facing a rough time ever since the coronavirus started spreading around the globe. The end of last season made one exporter lose money on…

Magdalena du Plessis – Carpe Diem

Orange River organic grape grower plans strong volume increase over coming years

A container of organically grown Early Sweet white seedless table grapes is due to shortly depart for Europe from Cape Town Harbour. This is the opening to Northern Cape…

Michel Van Loon

Agri-tech set to transform the future of African food security

Microsoft has been partnering with public and private organisations to develop systems that support better policy making around agriculture. This is made clear…

Rwanda: Start of the Irish potato harvest expected to improve food access

This year, Rwanda is experiencing good crop conditions with an expected average 2020/2021 season A harvest. The start of the Irish potato harvest in the…

Non-toxic crop protection spray gains certification for EU, Japanese and Costa Rican organic standards

The interest in the agricultural sector to change the methods of pest control to more environmentally friendly methods has been increasing worldwide. In 2017, the Costa Rican…

Nick Maglio, ProEx Food, on the increased demand for processed food

“Blanching fruits and vegetables is better for aesthetic, hygiene and convenience”

Demand for processed fruits and vegetables has gone up in the last few months. Consumers have been stocking up on non-perishables in case of a lockdown or quarantine.…

The company from South Tyrol

Isolcell equips existing cooling cells with ethylene absorption machine

For Isolcell, innovation is more than just the introduction of new products. It is also about improving and further developing already existing solutions. The company, which…

Danny Deen, Denimpex:

"Once the cold weather really hits the EU. garlic stocks will soon be gone"

The current situation in the global garlic market is going very badly, according to Danny Deen of Denimpex. "The Spanish harvest of approximately 110,000 tonnes has been…

New augmented reality tool for remote assistance

Tomra Visual Assist mobilizes global expertise to provide fast and effective service support

Tomra Visual Assist is Tomra Food's new Augmented Reality tool that enables remote experts to provide specialist support to a customer or a Tomra Field Service Engineer…

Wim Karsten, "Once Dutch supermarkets sell an exotic, we no longer should"

"Frozen exotics became very popular this year"

Wim Karsten has been in the exotics business for about 40 years already. However, 2020 is a year he'll not soon forget. "I'd prefer to delete this year. Turnover skyrocketed,…

Special Wholesale markets

Peter Grundhöfer, Grundhöfer LLC:

"We can only hope that the sector will recover quickly, returning to its usual levels"

The second lockdown in Germany is taking its toll on the fruit and vegetable trade. Even those who are indirectly or only partially affected by the closure of the hospitality…

Global focus citrus

Clementines from the Gulf of Taranto

"Prices are below production costs"

The pandemic should have pushed citrus fruit demand, yet consumption is slow. The mild weather and commercial uncertainty are putting producers from the…

Reid Fruits combines Aussie tech to beat cherry fraud

Reid Fruits will deploy Laava’s patented Smart Fingerprint secure label technology again this summerfruit season – building on its success thwarting at least 10 counterfeiting…

BLE market report KW 47:

'Cold and rain stimulated demand for small citrus fruits'

The autumnal weather, cold and rainy, stimulated the demand for small citrus fruits: Business accelerated, certainly towards the weekend. However, the quality of the goods had…

Cas van Loon, The Greenery Retail, the Netherlands

"Good prospects for new Sweet and Sunny strawberry import season"

The Dutch are working towards the end of the year. But, in Spain, they're making the necessary preparations for the new Sweet and Sunny strawberry season. It will start in…

Enza Zaden launches first white asparagus variety

For Enza Zaden, the asparagus market is a new market to penetrate. After years of development and testing in practical fields, the new asparagus variety Daleza (E225W.004) is…

Eurostat Comext

EU Commission report 'EU banana market'

Total EU27 banana production just above 600,000 tons up until Q3

EU 2020 production of bananas in the EU is focused mostly in Spain, although there is a slight drop as compared to previous years. France -overseas territories- comes in…

U.S. apple production is forecast to decline 3 percent in 2020

The holidays may look a little different this year, but apple pie is likely still on the table. The U.S. apple crop in the 2019/20 season (August to July) was the sixth…

Japanese ag-tech giant in the making

Japan: Mitsui invests in Dutch breeding company Totam

Mitsui & Co., Ltd. has reached an agreement to take a 75% stake in Totam Seeds B.V. and signed a share purchase agreement on November 25, 2020. Totam originates from…

TROPS is the first Spanish agri-food company to certify its sustainability strategy

TROPS has become the first company in the Spanish agri-food sector to receive the Certification of Sustainability and Business Contribution to the Sustainable Development…

Triples seasonal supply from strategic Moroccan producer

Organto announces expansion of avocado supply chain

Organto Foods Inc., an integrated provider of organic and value-added organic fruits and vegetables today announced that it has contracted for increased…

The world’s avocado obsession

The World Avocado Organization promotes the consumption of avocados across the world. New Food hears from its CEO, Xavier Equihua, as he offers insight into how the pandemic has…

Dupré Logistics enters specialty produce transportation market

Dupré Logistics has completed its acquisition of Michigan-based TTS Logistics, marking the company’s entry into the specialty produce transportation market.…

Australia produces a total of 87,546 tons of avocados 2019-2020

In Australia, avocados are produced almost all year round due to the range of climates and conditions in our eight major avocado growing regions. Hass is the main avocado…

Republic of Georgia sees twelve-fold increase in apple exports 2020/21

According to the Ministry of Environment and Agriculture of Georgia, the nation exported 5,045 tons of apples from the start of August to 23 November 2020,…

Down by 56% compared to 2019 and by 75% compared to 2016

Almeria eggplant prices plunged in November

The price of eggplant in November has recorded a sharp decline. According to data from Hortoinfo, in weeks 45, 46 and 47, the product has yielded an average…

Passion fruit to boost heart health and immune system

Passion fruit is found to have a multitude of health benefits. For one thing, the edible flesh and seeds contain powerful antioxidants and other nutrients to…

Retail

Aldi France purchases 554 Leader Price stores

Co-op is expanding robot delivery

Online shopping boosts Israel's Shufersal Q3 profit, revenueShufersal, Israel’s largest supermarket chain, reported a 76% increase in quarterly net profit, boosted by record…

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