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Overall production volume expanded this year

Golden Fuji apple remains popular in Chinese market

Golden Fuji apples are grown in Yantai. The production areas are located on the 37th parallel north. The unique geography and weather conditions all work together to create an…

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Export Development Manager - Avocados Australia, Brisbane

Chilean cherry production increased this season

Chinese fruit shops recently began to stock their shelves with fresh Chilean cherries. These delicious cherries soon attract the attention of Chinese consumers. One…

MSC warns customers

Reefer containers unable to be offloaded in Xingang

MSC has published a letter to its customer, stating that test procedures related to import reefer cargo has slowed down the operations in the port of Xingang,…

Azerbaijan increases potato production and export

In the period between January and October of 2020, 982,1 tons of potatoes were produced in Azerbaijan. According to the State Statistics Committee, compared to…

Levente Gyori

Anyue County, Sichuan Province

Chinese ‘lemon capital’ witnesses bumper harvest

Thanks to its favorable natural environment, Anyue County - Sichuan Province, southwest China - has seen a bumper harvest of lemons. Anyue has grown the fruit…

Avocados might take off in Bangladesh

The global appetite for avocado is showing no signs of slowing down, and Bangladesh might grab a slice of this $15 billion market. Cultivation of the central American…

Punjab growers want more farmer-friendly laws

For the last two months, growers from Punjab and other Indian states have been protesting against the new federal farm laws. A recent meeting between Union…

Sucharas Wongpeth

India: Kashmir cold storage business down by 40% this year

Due to factors like low crop yields, fungal diseases damaging the fruit and increases in the number of new units, the cold storage business in Kashmir is down…

Gerold Grotelueschen

Dropping vegetable prices in Navi Mumbai's APMC market

Prices of vegetables have come down in the APMC market in Navi Mumbai, caused by a lack of customers. As a result, vegetable prices witnessed a decline by 50…

Technology aides Indian growers with their sales

At the start of this year, growers from Anantapur, a city in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, were left with huge volumes of unsold sweet lime. The…

Special Wholesale markets

"Entire market has collapsed"

Lockdown affects business at Vienna wholesale market

At the beginning of last week, a renewed lockdown came into effect in Austria. A hard decision for the economy, and for the fruit industry there as well. The emergency…

Global focus citrus

Naranjas Torres is preparing for its new project at Biomarket

"The new consumer is increasingly more organic-oriented and thinks differently"

In November, Mercabarna will launch the first wholesale market specialized in organic food in Spain, and the second in Europe: Biomarket, which will concentrate the supply of…

Jianghongyan

Kyrgyzstan exports $1.5 millions worth of cabbages to Russia

According to the National Statistics Committee, the trade turnover of Kyrgyzstan with the Eurasian Economic Union member countries amounted to $1,791,500,000…

Suryo

Malaysian durians set to arrive in Saudi Arabia

The first consignment of Malaysian durians is expected to reach Saudi Arabia this week. Penang-based entrepreneur Engku Isa Al-Husam said the export, which was…

Minister of Commerce U Than Myint

Myanmar: More attention necessary for smooth flow of perishable crops

The Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar should smoothen the flow of crops from farms to domestic users as well as to the country's ports and border trade points…

Pakistan: Province of Sindh seeks government help to resume onion exports

Last week, Sindh officials asked the Pakistan government to allow exporters to resume onion exports and also to stop imports to give price benefits to growers.…

Vietnamese farmer makes his fortune growing grapes

Despite being grown in large quantities in Binh Yen village, Luc Nam district - Bac Giang province, lychee, oranges, and pomelo are not for everyone, including…

Uzbekistan exported record volume of grapes to Russia in September

In September 2020, Uzbekistan managed to hit the record of table grapes exports to the Russian market in one month. In total, 18.400 tons of fresh table grapes…

Rochu2008

Sri Lanka: Revised list of trade taxes for import substitution economy

Sri Lanka has published a series of value-based taxes to limit competition from imports for domestic producers and keep prices up, as part of an import…

Russia’s potato exports are skyrocketing

EastFruit analysts claim that Russia’s 2020 commercial potatoes exports will continue to grow very fast. While in 2019, Russia was the 11th largest potato…

Le Tresacois:

Plastic-free packaging for kiwifruit

This year, Le Tresacois has introduced a kraft tray for its kiwifruit campaign. The producer, located in the south of France, is trying to increasingly abandon plastic in…

Career change: from sweet potatoes to employment agency for nursing staff

"Support during integration is particularly important to me"

Until a few months ago, Patricia Hoffmann's everyday work involved telephone and email communication with suppliers and buyers of Central American sweet potatoes. Today - just…

Volkan Günes (Sun Früchte Freiburg) on the current Corona situation

"Fortunately, many specialist retailers still shop with us"

The current Lockdown Light and renewed closures of the hospitality industry are putting a big crimp on the plans of many fruit traders at local wholesale markets. As is well…

William Nannes, J.P. Beemsterboer Food Traders:

"Sky high onion export but prospects after Christmas still uncertain"

Onion exports are still running at a relentlessly fast pace. "At the moment it is a very healthy market. Every purchase that our customers make has been good, because every…

European soft fruit shelf data viewable in real time with new Roamler Berry Monitor

European soft fruit data viewable as a whole. From now on Roamler offers this on one clear dashboard with the newly introduced Berry Monitor. The crowdsourcing platform has…

Fewer South African grapes shipped compared to start of 2019/2020 season

South Africa's grape harvest is picking up steam in the Orange River region, where some cold stores are only receiving their first grapes of the season today in a season with…

Driscoll’s Scott Komar and Plenty’s Nate Storey

“Through this partnership we hope to unlock new flavors and expand our global reach”

In October, Driscoll’s and Plenty Unlimited Inc. announced a partnership to grow Driscoll’s proprietary strawberries year-round in Plenty’s vertical indoor farms. Last week,…

Circular supply chain main focus of Dutch Fruit Tech Campus

Cooperation between education and business at the intersection of innovation and education is in full development. Euro Pool System joined the Fruit Tech Campus in…

Vanguard Direct adds three new hires to sales and operations teams

On the cusp of the important season getting underway, Vanguard Direct are proud to announce the hiring of new positions in key sales and operations roles at the California and…

US retail report

Strong and stable fresh produce retail gains in October

Eight months into the pandemic, the virus remains in firm control of how and where people spend their food dollar. Everyday sales have been on a slow march back to normal and…

Crop and Export Report 2020, Week 47

Chilean blueberries: 1,043 tons exported in week 46

The northern zone is already in the final third of its season. Until week 46, the accumulated volumes of regions IV and V add up 24% more than the previous season on the same…

World-first investigation raises ethical and policy challenges in using robots in agriculture

With automation poised to transform agriculture in Australia in the coming years, Monash University researchers have published the first-ever analysis of the…

Decision-support tool using HiPerGator may help manage devastating avocado disease

UF/IFAS researchers are working on a decision-support app to help policy makers and growers decide the best regional treatment options for laurel wilt disease,…

Organicoop

The Chilean Organic Producers Cooperative is born

The Chilean Organic Producers Cooperative, Organicoop, whose mission is to be recognized as Chile's most reputable producer and supplier cooperative of organic…

Avocado exports Peru at US$754 million from Jan-Sep 2020

As usual, Peru's agro-exports were mainly driven by sales of avocados, the sector's leading product. According to Peruvian Foreign Trade Society (Comex-Peru),…

Birgit Reitz Hofmann

McDonald's will introduce plant-based burgers and fast food

McDonald's has announced it will introduce a line of plant-based meat alternatives called "McPlant" in 2021. The company has stated it would offer plant-based…

Barvocado launches avocado fruit & seed based energy bar

In an attempt to educate consumers and retailers alike of the nutritional density of the avocado seed, Barvocado is set to disrupt the energy and nutritional…

David Matsiko receives USD$10,000 for his agribusiness initiative

Bringo Fresh honored in AgriPitch Competition Awards

David Matsiko is the agripreneur of Bringo Fresh. This weekend, it was announced he is a runner-up in the Early-age Startup category of the AgriPitch…

Third Quarter 2020 financial report

CMA: Marked recovery in volumes transported in shipping and logistics activities.

The Board of Directors of the CMA CGM Group met under the chairmanship of Rodolphe Saadé, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, to review the financial…

Retail

Shoprite Holdings: slower first-quarter revenue growth

Albert Heijn has extended home delivery service in the Flanders region

India: Reliance says retail venture completes fundraising, rakes in $6.4blnIndia’s Reliance Industries Ltd said its retail arm had completed its fundraising exercise as more…

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Mr. Efficient