Published: Jul 27, 2016

The South African soft citrus season started early this year – beginning in early June rather than its usual July 4th start and supply has been good for clementines.

Published: Jul 26, 2016

The Mexican avocado season is now starting. Even though the harvest period had been expected to kick off on 4 July.

Published: Jul 25, 2016

In the near future Vietnam expects to export dragon fruit to both Australia and Japan. Recently, experts from Australia’s Department of Agriculture and Water Resources have been on fact-finding tours of Vietnamese provinces to evaluate their dragon fruit

Published: Jul 25, 2016

In June, an agricultural company in Kyrgyzstan concluded a contract with a large Russian wholesale company, Agrostar, for the delivery of Kyrgyz fruit and vegetables to Russia.

Published: Jul 25, 2016

Thanks to cooperation of the vegetable chain with the government, the first trial shipments of Dutch bell peppers were exported to China over the past two weeks following years of preparation.

Published: Jul 22, 2016

Last year, agricultural frost caused huge losses for apricot growers in Malatya. This year growers are experiencing an abundant season, and on the back of the harvest period, have started to dry their fruits.

Published: Jul 21, 2016

The weather in the Pearl River Delta this week is hot. The most important fruit varieties imported are: cherries, oranges, avocados and dragon fruit.

Published: Jul 20, 2016

Traditional exports from Ecuador, representing 56.7% of the total external private sales, declined by $74 million between January and May 2016.

Published: Jul 19, 2016

The Brazilian market for mushrooms is growing. According to Gustavo Barrichello, from the Villa Barrichello company, the market has been growing by 20% annually.

Published: Jul 18, 2016

High sales prices and a lot of demand for blueberries are giving producers of this fruit excellent prospects for the future. According to the figures of the Polish Institute for Agricultural Economics the total area of blueberries in Poland has doubled in

Published: Jul 18, 2016

According to Agreste, the 2016 apple harvest should reach 1,504,000 tons, 6% below that of 2015.

Published: Jul 18, 2016

Turkey’s Tunceli Province is located in the middle of the Eastern Anatolia Region; studies are underway there to increase organic mulberry production.

Published: Jul 18, 2016

In 2015 38,382 tons of organic fruit was sold in the Swiss supermarkets. This is an increase of 5,494 tons (16.7%) compared to the previous year.

Published: Jul 15, 2016

A deal has been signed between Taiwan’s Council of Agriculture and Japan's city of Gotemba, which aims to strengthen ties between the two sides, namely with a cooperation on the city’s school lunch program.

Published: Jul 12, 2016

From today, Monday 11 July, traders at Vashi's APMC market are planning to go on an indefinite strike to protest's the government's decision to delist vegetables and fruits from wholesale markets, to pave the way for direct marketing between farmers and r

Published: Jul 11, 2016

The harvest in Argentina has been delayed, and Europe is feeling the effects of Citrus Black Spot (CBS) restrictions.

Published: Jul 07, 2016

Clementines coming from Chile, Uruguay and Peru have saturated the market, while oranges and lemons are in tight supply.

Published: Jul 06, 2016

The changing weather patterns around the globe are without a doubt presenting huge challenges to fresh produce producers.

Published: Jul 05, 2016

The Chinese import market is dominated by citrus. In Shanghai, apart from durian and dragon fruit from Southeast Asia, the main import product is citrus, including late-season oranges from Spain, the US and Egypt, early-season Australian oranges and grape

Published: Jul 04, 2016

In 2012, a crop disease caused a reduction in maize yields in Kenya, meaning an alternative food security crop needed to be found.