Published: Mar 18, 2016

Due to concerns from farmers about a labour drought during harvest time, the so called 'backpacker tax', a proposed tax on foreign travellers who work in Australia has been scrapped.

Published: Mar 18, 2016

According to Beijing's ambassador to Ethiopia, the economic slowdown in China will not jeopardise plans to spend $60 billion on African development projects, and in fact it could even benefit Africa, as Chinese companies look for investments outside of th

Published: Mar 18, 2016

Consumer prices in Spain have dropped for the last two months. The National Statistics Institute (INE) reports that prices dropped 0.8% last month in comparison to February 2015.

Published: Mar 18, 2016

According to Fruit-Inform price monitoring, vegetables prices in Ukraine again went down last week (March 4-11, 2016), while in most cases the prices of fruit went up.

Published: Mar 18, 2016

Since the 1970s, Washington State University has been conducting annual seed lot trials to test for seed-born potato viruses or injuries to crops from herbicides or pests like aphids and psyllid. The university's Extension Office of Grant and Adams counti

Published: Mar 18, 2016

Since the 1970s, Washington State University has been conducting annual seed lot trials to test for seed-born potato viruses or injuries to crops from herbicides or pests like aphids and psyllid. The university's Extension Office of Grant and Adams counti

Published: Mar 18, 2016

On Tuesday 15 March, two supermarket workers in Bograngen, western Sweden, found a boa constrictor snake in a box of banana they were unpacking. The pair were shocked by the discovery and unsure whether the snake was still alive. A vet later confirmed tha

Published: Mar 18, 2016

Artichokes are mostly consumed in the regions where they are produced and their adjacent territories. Therefore, "production areas need to stand together to be able to take over the Spanish territories where they are not cultivated

Published: Mar 17, 2016

According to a new Which? investigation, which assessed the typical price per kg or litre that most people are likely to pay for different versions and sizes of foods across Asda

Published: Mar 17, 2016

The Verna lemon harvest is already starting as the Primofiore campaign comes to an end, which is coinciding with very high prices at origin, since the harvest volumes have been reduced by around 35% compared to last season.

Published: Mar 17, 2016

A study has revealed that the Golden Delicious apple variety is still the favourite variety of Ukrainian growers, despite the fact that its share of total production has been steadily declining.

Published: Mar 17, 2016

Executives representing top blueberry producing, packing, exporting and importing companies in the United States and Peru announced during the visit of U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to Lima, Peru the establishment of the first binational counc

Published: Mar 17, 2016

Recently, Bulgaria refused 22 tons of apples and more than 1 ton of vegetables which were produced in Macedonia and Greece.

Published: Mar 17, 2016

The import of fresh fruit from Afghanistan to Pakistan increased by 46 percent this fiscal year in comparison to the previous fiscal year 2014-15, when around 168,000 metric tonnes of fresh fruit was imported.

Published: Mar 17, 2016

The demand for honeydew melons decreased due to the current supply situation and the price,” states Tim Keller, manager of the fruit wholesaler Reinhard Schmidt Gemüse in Bremen.

Published: Mar 17, 2016

The future of the vegetables and fruits produced in the area between Alicante and Murcia, which have become one of the best ambassadors to the Spanish brand in foreign markets and have been considered Europe's orchard for years, is endangered because of a

Published: Mar 17, 2016

Yesterday, the European Commission pledged to take into consideration the package of extraordinary measures that the Council of Agriculture Ministers presented for different agricultural sectors in crisis, including the fruit and vegetables sector .

Published: Mar 17, 2016

As reported by Rossiyskaya Gazeta, a meeting was held between the Russian Minister of Energy and co-chair of the Intergovernmental Russian-Iranian Commission for Trade and Economic Cooperation

Published: Mar 17, 2016

Peru's Foreign Trade and Tourism Minister Magali Silva reported that as of February 2016, Peru had conducted 13 commercial activities aimed at promoting exports, which is a 10% increase in comparison with the similar period from the year before.

Published: Mar 17, 2016

Last year, according to the Foundation of Assistance Programmes for Agriculture (FAMMU/FAPA), Poland exported fewer than 680 thousand tonnes of fresh vegetables and almost 1 million 113 thousand tonnes of fruit.