"We aim to introduce Turkish kiwi to new markets in our very first season"

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New processing factory MSP Onions foresees every customer of programmed quality onions

"Internal quality sorting for onions demanded from all European supermarkets within two years"

“We aim to introduce Turkish kiwi to new markets in our very first season”

Rick Briston, Redpack: "We are fully prepared for Brexit"

"We are happy that our machines could help providing front-line workers with safely packaged supplies"

Dammis vna der Staaij, Staay Food Group:

"Keep going and take your chance!"

Thomas Weber, ATS-Tanner Banding Systems:

"We are continuing to develop our packaging solutions in the new year with many new ideas and a great passion"

Alberto Torres, founding partner of CVVP:

"We will seek to expand the Nadorcott production schedule in Spain and Portugal"

Interview to Cristian Moretti, General Manager at Agrintesa

An overview of year 2020 and what to expect in 2021

Deal or no deal: an agreement seems to be within reach...

Alexander Schrijvershof (Zest) on ERP system for fruit and vegetable importers

Insider creates ERP system for fresh produce

Special Year Overview

Global Focus Exotic/Tropical Fruit

Stuart Payne - GP Graders

"The core of our business is to replace the human hand and the human eye with automation and vision technology"

Sparacino Farms - Reemoon Fruit Sorting Machine

"This system was as good or better than anyone else's and the price is much better"

Worker housing high priority of Namibian table grape industry, but government inaction holds back new town

Pol Dendauw, Calsa

“The Belgian market's quiet, but vegetable prices are normal”

BP FruitCraft and JNV Produce react to the fast-approaching Brexit

“How can you be thinking of Brexit in times like these?"

Corona crisis making meal boxes more popular

Jorne Leemans, Taste Up, Belgium

“Despite the hospitality sector being closed, herb demand's not disappointing"

Frank Mosterd, Gilad Produce:

"Mini cucumbers under the brand Cuckies from February"

Jasper Slaghekke, Sismatec:

“More tomatoes being top sealed”

Patrick Stoffels about starting Stoffels Foods in the Netherlands

"Thanks to my broad network, I often find products, even when there's a shortage on the market"

Interest in home cooking drives nut demand up

Increased demand for dates and date products

Mathijs Segeren, Antares Commodities, the Netherlands:

"You're allowed to serve something nicer at Christmas"

Florus Zwartbol, Floor Foods:

"Consumer trends lean toward innovative, responsibly produced snacks"

The benefits of vacuum cooling in mushrooms

The UK's growing fewer and fewer vegetables, while importing more and more

Dutch company making progress in storage with no post-harvest substances

Milestone Fresh wants to be the first Dutch climate-positive forwarder

1,300 DAF XF 480 Super Space Cabs for Primafrio Group

Lufthansa ships 80 tons of fruit and vegetables to United Kingdom

Belgian and Dutch fruit producers fear impacts from Brexit

Michel van den Berg, VOF de Best, the Netherlands

"Hospitality sector closure puts exotics prices under pressure"

Agrowing Ltd. and VetorGEO announce breakthrough in multispectral leaf-level and aerial HLB detection

Russian Federation: Onion growers manage to raise prices

Since 2015, Spain's fruit and veg imports from Morocco have doubled

Tesco slashes the price of Christmas vegetables by 80%

Kolla UK donate fruit to stranded truckers

Piñata Farms

Favourable weather and season expansion points to a strong end to 2020

Implementations for the asparagus harvesting machines by Bagioni Technology

An innovative 4.0 machine remote-controlled

Russian Railways to reduce tariffs for fruit and vegetable transports in 2021

UK: Port of Dover chaotic in spite of virus testing

New Chinese lychee season facing challenges due to La Niña

Amazon nut harvest set to start in January in Peru

Milton Calle of Exotic Producers and Packers:

“Drought has caused the Peruvian mangoes to be small this year”

James Lonsdale – SPAR Rural Hub Initiative

GlobalG.A.P enables small-scale Limpopo farmers to compete with commercial farmers

Citrus demand expected to ramp up even more with New Year’s health resolutions

Daniel Ghadiri and Nick Maglio, ProEx Food, LLC:

"Cost and availability of labor, and now concerns about pathogen transmission will be the big issues in 2021"

More and more off-season cherries make way into North America

Searching for new markets for socially conscious exotics

Guatemala's mango production increases by 10% a year

South African grape packing going well, with good berry sizes

Revolving around registration of Lady Crimea trademark

APAL gives up trademark battle against Russian fruit company

USDA GAIN Report

China: Fresh citrus production and consumption forecast to continue upward

Colombia's banana sector aspires to achieve exports of $1 billion in 2021

Maharashtra, India

Kesar mango to be branded as Maha Kesar

Export market for Indian grapes set to shrink in 2021

UK demand for Indian vegetables to drop by 15-20%

Peru is expected to produce more than 20,000 tons of ginger in 2020

South African mango season starts early with big volumes, lower prices

Collectors very interested in Del Monte-stickered $20 bill

University of California research

Scientists examine citrus hybrids in fight against Citrus Greening Disease

Global durian fruit market to hit $28.6 billion by 2025

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