Published: May 06, 2016

Measures to improve the quality of Kenyan mangoes are beginning to bear fruit, hence the African country has set its sights on the lucrative European Union market for exports.

Published: May 06, 2016

Staff from the International Potato Center travelled to Jodhpur, India, as part of a project to find new areas of India in which to pilot potato programs. Jodhpur's arid landscape, the water table, and the warm days that fed into cool evenings were remini

Published: May 06, 2016

Thursday April 28 construction commenced at breeding company De Groot en Slot in Broek op Langedijk by the directors Martin Slot and Jeroen de Haas.

Published: May 06, 2016

The 2015/2016 garlic campaign is about to come to a close, with prices that remain competitive and stable due to the low stocks available at the moment. "This month, we will finish the campaign with about 18 million kilos sold and we'll start the new seas

Published: May 06, 2016

2.03% more exports than last year; that would be the result achieved by Ecuadorian banana traders this year. Despite the weather and natural conditions that have loomed in Ecuador in recent weeks, the Association of Banana Exporters of Ecuador (AEBE) conf

Published: May 06, 2016

Matthew Jones of Reynolds presented a presentation about the company and the trends in tomatoes during the Tomato Conference in April. According to Jones the price is still king for foodservice customers when it comes to tomatoes. “Yet we also notice that

Published: May 05, 2016

Online food delivery company Foodpanda’s recent survey findings indicate that Indian households, particularly non-coastal regions of Hyderabad and Bengaluru, provide brisk online sales over Kolkata and states like Goa.

Published: May 05, 2016

As previously reported here, CRF Frozen Foods of Pasco, Washington, instigated a voluntary recall of 15 frozen vegetable items over concerns of a possible listeria contamination.

Published: May 05, 2016

Spanish producers have reacted to the information revealed recently by a study regarding the market presence of Spanish apples compared to imports in Spanish stores.

Published: May 05, 2016

Australia wants to increase the consumption of its stonefruits and table grapes in the Philippines, and convenience stores have been established as an appropriate market for doing so.

Published: May 05, 2016

The berry sector in the province of Huelva aims to export about 25,000 tonnes of blueberries to European markets this season, which is almost its entire production, given that the domestic market absorbs only two percent.

Published: May 05, 2016

BelOrta also participated in the economic mission to India at the end of April. Filip Fontaine, BelOrta’s manager, is happy about the visit and thought the Indians were just like the Flemish. “We understood each other: our thought pattern was similar. It

Published: May 05, 2016

Meridian Growers announced the addition of Amy Hochderffer to the Meridian Growers team. Amy brings over 25 years of experience in the dried fruit and nut industry specializing in domestic sales and private label business.

Published: May 05, 2016

Rural Business-Cooperative Service Administrator Sam Rikkers has announced a new resource to help food hubs improve their financial performance. Food hubs, which are businesses or organizations that manage the aggregation, distribution

Published: May 05, 2016

Through their Farmers Market Metrics initiative, FMC has been working to make data collection and communication easy and intuitive by developing training materials and web tools that are tailored to your specific mission and capacity.

Published: May 05, 2016

Retailer Aldi has announced that it will buy all of its bananas from sustainable sources by the end of 2016. The range will be sourced from either Fairtrade or Rainforest Alliance Certified™ farms.

Published: May 05, 2016

Rallis India Ltd’s share has gained 2% after the company reported sales growth, following three consecutive quarters of declining growth. Sales in the March quarter increased 9% on higher exports at the Tata group firm. With the recent gains, the stock

Published: May 05, 2016

As summer is just around the corner, the listing season of some fruit varieties, such as apple, grapefruit and other citrus fruits, is gradually coming to an end, which offers huge market opportunities for avocado and its price nearly doubled within two w

Published: May 05, 2016

Mangoes are one of Senegal's key agricultural exports. The fruit is grown organically in the country, which exported around 16,000 tons of mangoes to mainly Europe and Asia last year. Now, the Senegalese authorities consider mango exports an important sec

Published: May 05, 2016

According to the price list of the Council of Murcia for week 17 (from 25 April to 1 May, 2016) published by Ailimpo, Verna lemon prices have gone up by 3 cents compared to the previous week and are sold for between 1.00 and 1.15 Euro per kilo at origin,