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OVERVIEW GLOBAL AVOCADO MARKET

The price for avocados on the global market has been rising in recent weeks due to a smaller supply and a shortage of large sizes. At the moment, Mexico and Chile dominate the…

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Chinese export of edible fungi greatly declined due to Covid-19 pandemic

Most of the edible fungi-related expositions and activities were either canceled or delayed last year because of the outbreak of Covid-19. Now that the situation in China is…

January-November 2020: Azerbaijani tomato exports up

Azerbaijan increased its tomato exports by 13.3 percent during the period January to November 2020. In this period, Azerbaijan exported 176,000 tons of…

Chinese pear sales affected by shatang mandarins and Covid-19

The export season of fresh Chinese pears is currently underway, but the number of orders from overseas has reduced significantly compared with the same period…

Huaping county, Yunnan province

Chinese ex-miners successfully turn to mango production

Huaping county had about 8,000 hectares of mountains containing coal mines from the mid-1980s to 2015, accounting for 20 percent of its uninhabited mountains,…

Kurdistan Region: Ban on pomegranate imports lifted

On Wednesday, the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources of the Kurdistan Region’s announced that it would again allow the import of pomegranates. The…

Pakistan exports fruits worth $138.9 mln and vegetables worth $77.2 mln in five months

Pakistan earned $138.891 million by exporting about 228,648 tons of fruits during first five months of the current financial year as compared the exports of…

Rain damages ready to harvest grapes and onions in parts of Nashik

Unseasonal rain on Thursday has affected grapes and onions in parts of the Nashik district. Apart from Nashik city, unseasonal rainfall was reported from…

Imported fruits in China receiving lukewarm response

The peak fruit production season is currently underway in the southern hemisphere. In previous years, imported fruits were flooding into the China market at…

Tamil Nadu banana growers welcome new Farm laws

Policy reforms in agriculture have the dual responsibility of ensuring that the sector achieves higher growth, delivers higher income to the farmers and at the…

Special Latin America

Peruvian blueberry exports passed 833 million dollars in 2020

Peru's blueberry exports in 2020 had a moderate increase in volume and value when compared to the previous year. According to a report by Agrodata Peru, in 2020 the country…

Global Focus Grapes

Exports have grown by more than 21% since October, despite the pandemic and strikes in Peru

Peruvian table grape shipments are expected to increase in the 2020/21 campaign

Peru exported 215,000 tons of table grapes between October and December 20 of 2020, i.e. 21.5% more than the 177,000 tons it shipped in the same period of the previous year,…

Mike de Koster, WDK Onions:

"Onion trade from full pelt to quiet spell"

After weeks with a gigantic onion export, the demand for Dutch onions is currently a lot calmer. "The contrast is huge, we are really going from full throttle to almost…

Nigel Jenney - Fresh Produce Consortium

“Whilst the government has had years to plan for this they have given the industry a matter of weeks"

The UK and EU agreed a last minute Brexit deal on 24th December, which has been widely welcomed by the fresh produce industry. It means goods can still be…

Cambodian chilli exports up 27% in 2020

The Cambodian government’s policy to boost productivity performance in the agricultural sector has improved the nation’s exports markedly, with shipments of…

Hein Punt – Maluti Fruit

Early South African apple exporter looks to up overseas trade

The new Royal Gala season is starting for Maluti Fruit in a cool summer with plentiful rain, and it’s been years since rivers have run as strongly as this season, says Hein…

Manuel Baides, general director of the new company Fruta de Autor:

"There is an interesting gap to fill in the premium market"

Four Spanish production companies have joined forces in a consortium to position themselves in the premium market under the Fruta de Autor brand. "Although the project has…

Demand for frozen durian shoots up in 2020

Demand for frozen durian has jumped throughout the pandemic. Dennis Sever with Exotic Growers, Inc. in Homestead, FL has seen a pickup in durian demand by 100 percent in 2020,…

USDA citrus annual report

Australian citrus harvest to rise by 10%

Good rainfall in 2020 benefitted Australia's citrus cultivation. It will affect 2021's expected yields considerably well. The orange harvest is estimated at 535.000 tons, with…

UAntwerp and Port of Antwerp testing innovative technology for autonomous shipping

3D sonar sensors enable unmanned sailing

Automated navigation is the future of inland shipping. It may sound futuristic, but innovative research carried out by UAntwerp and the Port of Antwerp is bringing us one step…

Frankfurt-based temperature-controlled logistics company continues its business expansion

Right at the start of the new year, Thermologistic is getting its new warehouse in Kelsterbach at Frankfurt Airport up and running. With an area of 4,000 m2 and temperature…

CEVA Logistics accelerates its expansion in Africa with the acquisition of ASTI Group in Morocco

CEVA Logistics’ strategic expansion plan across the African continent is further gathering pace with the acquisition of ASTI Group in Morocco. CEVA Logistics and ASTI have…

Financial report for Fiscal Second Quarter 2021

Lamb Weston net sales declined by 12%

Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc. announced its fiscal second quarter 2021 results and provided a business update for the third quarter of fiscal 2021. “We delivered…

Organto closes over-subscribed CDN $4.6 Million convertible note financing

Organto Foods Inc., an integrated provider of organic and value-added organic fruits and vegetables, today announced the closing of its recently announced…

End of year weighted average European orange prices at €74 per 100 kgs

The December 2020 weighted average European orange prices stood at €74 per 100 kgs Those in Spain were at €59 and the prices in Greece stood at €56, both being slightly above…

Coquimbo, Chile

Shading nets reduce water needs of table grapes by up to 25%

In the Coquimbo Region, a project is underway to study the impact of the use of site-variety specific shading nets on the water needs of table grapes. The…

Chilean sweet cherry air exports reached 16,364 tons in season 20/21

At week 53, the exports by this mean of transport are 3.3% higher than the previous season. The current 2020/21 Chilean cherry export campaign began in week…

Record shipping rates unlikely at their peak, Maersk says

Container carrier A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S is working at full capacity and can’t yet see a peak in freight rates that have already been propelled to record highs by pandemic…

‘Still, barring weather problems, this year’s fruit harvest will exceed 2019 records’

Russian Federation: fruit price increases predicted for 2021

According to preliminary estimates from the Horticulture Union of the Russian Federation, the apple harvest amounted to 708,000 tons in 2020, which is 30%…

Ginger combats certain autoimmune diseases in mice

Ginger is known to have anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidative effects, which makes it a popular herbal supplement to treat inflammatory diseases. Now, according…

Lifepack: Pineapples turned into plantable plates

When it comes to finding solutions to a big problem, there doesn’t seem to be anything that’s better than using something that people really want to get rid of as the raw…

Retail

Dreamstime

Vietnam’s retail sales: The lowest growth in 9 years

Aldi Portugal has opened the first of 25 new stores it plans to open in 2021

HelloFresh expands to JapanWithin 5 to 7 years, HelloFresh aims to grow from 3.6bln to 10bln euros in turnover. To achieve this, the German company is now preparing for…

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