Published: Oct 09, 2015

Sales of premium fruit are growing rapidly in China. Popular are Red Delicious apples from the US, durian from Thailand, Mexican avocados, Vietnamese dragon fruit and imported kiwifruit.

Published: Oct 09, 2015

Americans drink close to a billion gallons of orange juice every year and more people purchase orange juice than any other 100 percent fruit juice on the market. But do Americans know where their orange juice comes from?

Published: Oct 09, 2015

Export markets provide a new source of income and market diversity for growers

Published: Oct 09, 2015

The main crop of the Fuji apple will be harvested later than October. However, some early Fuji varieties have come on the market earlier. Market participants predict that total production will increase by 10% this season.

Published: Oct 09, 2015

The campaign of 2014/2015 passed almost without a hick, into the new season. The old stocks could virtually be cleared completely, so that there was no pressure to market the products of the new harvest.

Published: Oct 09, 2015

The Romanian Liberal MEP Daniel Buda kicked off a campaign to encourage the consumption of domestic products called: "Eat Romanian products, eat healthy!" In Bistrita, a team of young liberals led by Doris Moldovan...

Published: Oct 09, 2015

Vietnam is creating a new horizon on the German market, especially when the free trade agreement between Vietnam and the European Union takes effect.

Published: Oct 09, 2015

The price of vegetables continues to rise in the Obour wholesale market.

Published: Oct 09, 2015

Banana bacterial wilt is infecting Uganda’s banana farms, hurting farmers’ incomes and depriving the population of an important source of carbohydrates.

Published: Oct 09, 2015

“Commercial movement of tomatoes is slower in summer due to all the backyard harvests,” says Sam Maglio with Maglio Companies.” Now that we are heading into fall and homegrown supplies are starting to come down, the industry will see demand picking up aga

Published: Oct 09, 2015

Tozer Seeds America’s new mini sweet pepper line called the Sweetie series has experienced tremendous growth and been praised by growers for their uniformity and heavy yield since the series’ debut in May.

Published: Oct 09, 2015

Harvest is nearing completion for the Northwest pear growers of Washington and Oregon. Over the next months, ten pear varieties will be at their peak, putting a fresh crop of Northwest-grown pears within easy reach now through next spring.

Published: Oct 09, 2015

Domestic supplies of squash are largely coming from Georgia after rain cut into production in North Carolina. Growers in Michigan and Ohio, who would normally be shipping squash this time of year, pulled out early, so lower yields in Georgia have caused p

Published: Oct 09, 2015

With the start of the Brazilian melon season, the South American country is the largest supplier of the subtropical cucurbit in the world. However, recently an extended period of drought has negatively affected the harvest.

Published: Oct 09, 2015

“The Chinese persimmon season runs from August until December. Annually we produce 80,000 tons. We grow persimmon on 4,000 hectares (60,000 mu) in Fujian, Yunan province,” says Liu Jingle of JinTaiHua Agriculture Products. The company sells persimmons und

Published: Oct 09, 2015

“The impending global population explosion will require a doubling of food production within the next few decades,” says Marcus Meadows-Smith with BioConsortia.

Published: Oct 09, 2015

That the organic sector is growing, is no news. The high demand in countries like Sweden and other Scandinavian countries is widely known. Importers of organic, tropical fruit and exotics see demand increase in those segments as well...

Published: Oct 09, 2015

“Limes are the most interesting products of Mexico for us,” states the wholesales trader Roberto Argentieri from the company Salvatore Ferrauto in Munich. The fruit wholesaler is situated on the Munich market and has imported the limes from Mexico for sev

Published: Oct 09, 2015

A few weeks ago FreshPlaza published an article on how the good South African citrus export season was affecting supply of high quality oranges for the domestic market.

Published: Oct 08, 2015

Sugar prices surged higher Monday as traders eyed a disrupted harvest in Brazil and lower production in India.