Published: Apr 18, 2016

Last month, a shipment of 1,000 Sharwil avocados arrived in a Minnesota distributor's warehouse; marking the first time in 25 years that any type of Hawaii avocado has been sent to the mainland. This is due to the easing of U.S. Department of Agriculture

Published: Apr 18, 2016

Last year, Shaanxi Province alone, consumed a total number of 120,000 boxes of New Zealand kiwifruit.

Published: Apr 18, 2016

The Kenyan avocado season, which lasts from March to July, kicked off recently and, according to David Mulwa of Kandia Fresh Produce Suppliers, while there have been some issues due to the excessive rains, the production is fairly good, and over the last

Published: Apr 18, 2016

PMA's Fresh Connections Mexico will be held on 11 and 12 May 2016 in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico.

Published: Apr 18, 2016

North American cocoa grinding missed expectations, showing an unexpected decline despite an improving economic situation, but prices got support from signs of strong Asian demand.

Published: Apr 18, 2016

This project would allow us to better serve our foodservice customers through improved product mix and greater efficiencies.

Published: Apr 18, 2016

Colourful display of company logos and attractive wordplay around the brand may soon shrink in size as packets of commodities will now be required to give prominence to details such as name of manufacture / packager / importer, net quantity of product, ma

Published: Apr 18, 2016

Modern consumer desirability for convenient frozen food products has been a major reason for the enormous growth of frozen bakery products market.

Published: Apr 15, 2016

In the 2014/2015 campaign, the average price at origin for fresh organic tomatoes was 42.88 percent higher than that paid for conventional tomatoes, according to data from the Prices and Markets Observatory of the Government of Andalusia.

Published: Apr 15, 2016

Marco Vela Reyes, the secretary general of the League of Agrarian Communities and Farmers Unions, said that lemon prices had gone from 6 pesos per kilogram to more than 35 pesos because of a sharp drop in local production caused by a lack of rain.

Published: Apr 15, 2016

The 2015/2016 citrus season, which is about to end in Valencia, reflects a significant rise in prices of the major late orange varieties (Navel Lane Late and Navel Powell, among others) when compared to the start of this season and also compared to previo

Published: Apr 15, 2016

Peaches are synonymous with Georgia and South Carolina, but Florida is looking to get in the game, making the crop a hot alternative in the state. The recent uptick in peach planting in Florida began around 2009, driven partly by the spread of HLB in citr

Published: Apr 15, 2016

Shaanxi is one of the biggest apple producing regions in China. The province is well connected to Central and Southern Asian markets, and is hoping to increase it exports into these regions.

Published: Apr 15, 2016

According to a government survey of California grape growers, 2015 total crop acreage fell 10,000 acres from the previous year - about a 1 percent reduction.

Published: Apr 15, 2016

The Indian government is concerned by the declining trends in the country's apple production; to counteract this, new proposals and measures, such as setting up more cold storage facilities and improving existing stores in the hill states of Jammu, Kashmi

Published: Apr 15, 2016

Worried about the staggering annual food importation bill in the continent of over $35 billion, especially the commodities for which there is comparative advantage, the Africa Development Bank (AfDB) on Tuesday called on development partners to rise up to

Published: Apr 15, 2016

The Russian phytosanitary authorities have reportedly destroyed 22 tonnes of fresh apples from Ukraine near the Russian city of Tula.

Published: Apr 15, 2016

Zimbabwe realised about $54 million from exports of horticultural products to the European Union in 2015 which is an increase from $49 million recorded in 2014, according to figures availed by ZimTrade.

Published: Apr 15, 2016

The Ukrainian Association of Retail Chain Suppliers has predicted a drop of between 20 and 50% in the prices of Turkish crops in the case of the Russian Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance introducing a complete ban on their impo

Published: Apr 15, 2016

British supermarkets cater to the trend of unprocessed food, or clean eating, with product innovations in the fresh produce sector. This trend involves having a healthy diet with lots of fruits and vegetables and no additives, such as sugar or preservativ