Published: Dec 07, 2015

Major food commodity prices fell in November, reversing about half their rise in the previous month, as the cost of internationally-traded staples, except for sugar, fell across the board.

Published: Dec 04, 2015

Spain's Official State Bulletin (BOE) published the Royal Decree 1025/2015 of 13 November (amending a previous one) on the conditions to be met by recycled raw materials based on polymeric materials for their use in packaging and other articles in contact

Published: Dec 04, 2015

Currently, total export volume of fruits, such as pears and chestnuts, from Hebei Province amounts to 300,000 tons a year, with an estimated value of 200 million USD.

Published: Dec 04, 2015

Weather is to blame for the strawberry shortage that’s affecting consumers nationwide.

Published: Dec 04, 2015

At the moment, a lot of fruit varieties are on the market, the supply is very adequate and consumers have lots of fruit to choose from. It is a typical situation of oversupply.

Published: Dec 04, 2015

Due to the remaining low rate of the Canadian Dollar and the fact that Canada has reached important trade agreements with China and Korea, the agriculture production of Canada British Columbia (BC) is increasing; especially the blueberry output and export

Published: Dec 04, 2015

Russia has published the final list of Turkish products whose import will be prohibited from 1 January 2016, which includes tomatoes, onions, cauliflower, broccoli, cucumbers, grapes, apples, pears, apricots, peaches, plums, strawberries, oranges and mand

Published: Dec 04, 2015

The campaign to mandate labelling of products originating from the Israeli settlements recently experienced a major success in Europe, after the EU voted to implement a precise labelling policy for all products originating within the disputed territories.

Published: Dec 04, 2015

The government and the ruling parties will likely expand items subject to a reduced tax rate to include processed foods.

Published: Dec 04, 2015

Starting from 7 December, Russia will tighten its sanitary controls on agricultural and food products imported into its territory from Belarus, as reported by Sergei Dankwert, head of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision, this

Published: Dec 04, 2015

In a mini-budget unveiled to fetch Rs40 billion taxes under the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s conditions, the government on Monday imposed one percent additional Customs duty by raising the maximum slab from 20 to 21 percent,

Published: Dec 04, 2015

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Derrick Kellier, says the United States Division of Agriculture has approved simple entry of breadfruit, calalloo, pineapple, strawberries, guineps and other crops into their markets, and farmers and business in

Published: Dec 04, 2015

Ontario onion suppliers are seeing lower supply levels for the 2015 season, after last year saw a market flooded by strong yields and competition from western growers

Published: Dec 04, 2015

On the 28th of November, the first load of fresh vegetables with a total weight of 7.6 tons were exported to Macao from Chengdu. The vegetables entered Macau through Zhuhai Port on November the 30th. This is the first time fresh vegetables were exported d

Published: Dec 04, 2015

Kenyans have to dig deeper into their pockets to buy tomatoes as ongoing El-Nino rains disrupt supply of the essential commodity. Prices have increased by up to 40 percent as traders struggle to supply the produce that is widely used by millions of Kenyan

Published: Dec 04, 2015

The marketing company Greek & Fresh and its producing partner Labidino, currently the largest exporters of strawberries by air from Greece, with exports mostly to destinations in the Gulf (Kuwait, Dubai and Saudi Arabia), visited Asia Fruit Logistica for

Published: Dec 04, 2015

Russia has provided more details on the previously announced sanctions against Turkey. Different foods from Turkey will no longer be allowed to cross the border to Russia.

Published: Dec 04, 2015

It's been remarkably quite in the grape market these past weeks. "The Italian season is as good as over, and ended about six weeks earlier due to the weather conditions. Now there are still some Crimson

Published: Dec 04, 2015

Good demand and less import volume has made for a strong cucumber market. Supplies from Florida are expected to last through 2015, and then Mexican imports will make up the majority of supplies.

Published: Dec 04, 2015

Enterprises’ attention has rewarded the choice taken by Rimini Fiera to combine SIGEP and RHEX under the same expo “roof.” From January 23 to 27, 2016, food service trade members will have the opportunity of discovering the trends of the catering and “eat