Since August 2014, Northwest tree-fruit growers haven't been able to ship their produce to Russia, hence shifted their focus to India, the world's second-most populated country.
The Pacific Regional Office of the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) conducts an acreage survey of California citrus growers to provide annual information on new plantings and removals.
Due to the increasing popularity of seedless watermelons in Japan, the South Korean city of Jeongeup has drawn up a plan to increase its exports of the fruit to the neighbouring country this year, the municipal government said Tuesday 2 August.
A shortage of seeds and agrochemical is causing vegetable production in Venezuela to plummet. FEDEAGRO, the Confederation of Agricultural Producers Association, said that the decline in production is increasing.
In the first half of the year, carrots increased in price the most in St Petersburg, by 51%, as the head of the city department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service, Vadim Vladimirov, reported on Wednesday 27 July.
Extra-EU imports represent only 4% of total European imports. Indeed, EU cucumbers have a clear supremacy on their domestic market, and their import volumes have still increased +7% in value and +8% in volume.
According to an organic products exporter from the Netherlands, Sri Lanka has tremendous potential to get into the organic product export market, because the demand for such products in the entire EU region is growing exponentially.
The Tucumán Citrus Association, ATC, is celebrating its 40th anniversary. The association includes all of the active agents in the sector, such as primary producers and fresh and industrial fruit packers.