Fresh Andean blackberry and raspberry can now be imported from Ecuador into the US under a system approach as the USDA APHIS is amending the “Fruit and Vegetables” regulations.
A study was conducted by JMT US, a subsidiary company of the French company Janny MT, which aimed to compare the apple quality in their JMT controlled atmosphere modules compared to regular cold room storage.
The general public is unfamiliar with medlars, yet every year a fair number of them are imported. Importer Jonckheere has them in his selection every year.
Chilean exports of processed fruits and vegetables between January and February 2016 amounted to $204.4 million dollars, i.e. a 7.3% increase in value over the same period of 2015.
Latin America either loses or wastes 348,000 tons of food daily. This is according to a recent report released by the United Nation's Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), which also adds that the wastage was making it difficult to achieve the sustain
In the first three months of this year, the export value of Vietnamese fruit and vegetables increased by 41 percent, to US$526 million. According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), Vietnamese vegetable and fruit products have mad
Exports from Bangladesh have increased 9 percent in the first three quarters of the ongoing 2015-16 fiscal, over the corresponding period in the last fiscal. However, exports from the agriculture sector have seen significant decreases.
In expectation of a surge in demand for horticultural crops ahead of the Simhastha festival, the crop acreage is expected to increase by around 10 percent in the ongoing 2015-16 season.
On Wednesday 6 April, life insurance provider John Hancock announced plans for a program which incentivizes policyholders to make “healthy food choices.”
Freshly cut fruit, offered in all sorts and sizes, is a growing market. Fruit salads, snack fruit at the gas station: there is a wide range of products. Most of the demand for cutting machines for fruit doesn’t come from suppliers of fruit salads for now,
For the second consecutive year, Produce Marketing Association (PMA) participated along with PMA member companies Subsole, David del Curto, Cencosud, Gesex, Exser, Globar Reefers
The low price of potatoes in the domestic market has resulted in a good start for the export of Argentinian potatoes, with a significant increase in demand, mainly from Latin American countries like Brazil and Paraguay.
A lot of tomato plants in Almeria aged faster due to a large harvest in the period October to January. The expectation is that the supply in the rest of the season will be noticeably lower than that in the previous two years.
According to China's quarantine and inspection agency in Heilongjiang Province, demand for Chinese agricultural products in Russia is on the rise. Reasons are an increases in the value of the ruble and heightened purchasing capacity among Russians.
Representative sectors in Bolivia are increasingly more interested in resuming bilateral free trade negotiations with the European Union. The tariff preferences supplementary agreement currently in force would allow hundreds of Bolivian products free acce
The citrus season in Spain is already in its final stages; there are increasingly smaller volumes of mandarins and the campaign will continue with late oranges until late June.
