Published: Oct 22, 2015

Shoppers are set to benefit from their favourite fruit, vegetables and salad staying fresher for longer, under an initiative by the UK’s biggest supermarket to slash food waste.

Published: Oct 22, 2015

There was an unusual decline in exports of farm produce in the first quarter of 2015 in East China's Shandong province, which is the country's main agricultural region. It has been China's biggest exporter of agricultural produce for 16 consecutive years.

Published: Oct 22, 2015

In the first seven months of 2015, Russia imported a total of 4,186 million tonnes of fruit and vegetables, of which 17.8 thousand tonnes corresponded to products from countries affected by the Russian embargo

Published: Oct 22, 2015

As of October 1, Port Tampa and Port Manatee in Florida have been authorized by the United States Department of Agriculture to handle cold-treated imports of grapes, blueberries, apples, pears and citrus from Peru, Uruguay and Argentina.

Published: Oct 22, 2015

China's economy has slowed down in the last quarter, however there is stronger spending by consumers, whom have helped to not let China's economy take a deeper downturn.

Published: Oct 22, 2015

Agriges will present its entire product range at Fruit Attraction 2015. A lot of space will be dedicated to microbiological lines, which can "improve" the microbial population of the soil increasing its biodiversity.

Published: Oct 22, 2015

The current onion harvest figures in the main European production countries were presented by Hans-Christoph Behr of the German Agricultural Market Information (AMI) at the International Onion Congress in Middelburg.

Published: Oct 22, 2015

Banana production in China is very high this year, resulting in low wholesale prices.

Published: Oct 22, 2015

Supplies of green bell peppers from California have picked up as production transitions to desert regions, though volumes of red and yellow peppers remain light. If colored pepper supplies remain light, then the market for those will likely close out the

Published: Oct 22, 2015

Dongfang, a Chinese citrus company has used a launch on the Australian stock exchange this week to tell Australian growers it can help them reach a market of 1.3 billion people.

Published: Oct 22, 2015

The overseas citrus market always gets good prices. The overseas tangerine season is over and the last oranges are being sold. Traders know that a shortage sometimes arises between overseas production and Spanish production.

Published: Oct 22, 2015

It's pretty quiet on the market. Remarkable is that with many products, there are shortages and high prices, says Jan Vermeiren of Exofi. "Take Spain for instance, production of avocado and mango is 40 to 50% lower this season.

Published: Oct 21, 2015

Poor harvests across much of southern Africa mean that nearly 30 million people will struggle to get adequate nutrition in the months ahead, the United Nations said Monday.

Published: Oct 21, 2015

According to a new report published by Allied Market Research titled, “World Frozen Food Market” - Opportunities and Forecasts, 2014–2020,” the global frozen food market would garner revenue of $306 billion by 2020, registering a CAGR of 4.1% during the f

Published: Oct 21, 2015

Three people from the Australian Table Grape Association, including the CEO Jeff Scott, have visited Gong An in China to research local grape production.

Published: Oct 21, 2015

A new council has been formed to work with growers and fruit fly management community groups across all states and territories to control fruit fly on a national scale.

Published: Oct 21, 2015

Russian fruit prices have increased between 30% and 50% over the past year. Main reasons are a weak Ruble and the EU import ban with the country. Oranges witnessed the biggest price increase with 58%, followed by bananas, apples and pears.

Published: Oct 21, 2015

The shipments from overseas lost presence. Yet the long lasting tense situation has loosened up somewhat, because the imports from Spain are increasing. Nevertheless, the availability did not correspond with the sales opportunities.

Published: Oct 21, 2015

A new logistics hub will be created near the airport of Hefei, East of Shanghai. The new centre will occupy 175 hectares. The project will start this November.

Published: Oct 21, 2015

Chinese investment group SinoFortune has plans to invest over £5 billion in UK projects.