Published: Mar 11, 2016

The fruit and vegetable import market is currently looking good. Grapes have reached fabulous prices of 12 Euro for the loose product and between 13.50 and 14 Euro for the packaged fruit from South Africa.

Published: Mar 11, 2016

Viemose Driboga, the Danish developer of moving gutter systems, recently introduced a new system as an answer to the growing global demand for cubical vertical farming solutions.

Published: Mar 11, 2016

"This year, the artichoke campaign has been rather early due to the weather. Unfortunately only little produce was exported, meaning that a lot went to the canning industry with very low prices for the period.

Published: Mar 11, 2016

Consumers will continue paying high prices for avocados, as the dispute over the ban on Mexican imports in Costa Rica will be resolved by an international lawsuit and this process will last for several years.

Published: Mar 11, 2016

Due to the lack of a market, pineapple growers in Mwinilunga, Zambia, are turning to maize growing, meaning the district risks losing its status as Zambia's main pineapple-producer. Market challenges mean farmers have been avoiding the fruit in recent yea

Published: Mar 11, 2016

Every March, a large volume of mangos swarm to the market, and they can be seen everywhere on the fruit stands. The main mango varieties include Little Taiwan Mango, Big Gold Mango etc, and the most popular one, also the cheapest one is little Taiwan Mang

Published: Mar 11, 2016

The season's first Alphonso mangoes have started to arrive at the APMC wholesale market in Vashi, from where they are sent to the Mumbai market and for export.

Published: Mar 11, 2016

The general manager of the Peruvian Association of Mango Producers and Exporters (APEM), Juan Carlos Rivera Ortega, stated that Peru would ship between 5,200 and 5,300 twenty three-ton containers of fresh mango in the 2015/2016 season

Published: Mar 11, 2016

Over the past few decades the Belgian potato-processing sector has grown remarkably and this trend continued in 2015, when just under 4 million tonnes of potatoes were processed into fresh or frozen fries, mashed potato products, crisps, precooked potatoe

Published: Mar 11, 2016

Just over five years ago the National Agricultural Research Laboratories (NARL) Kawanda released the M-9 banana variety; since then it has seen an unprecedented rate of adoption, due to its popularity among farmers and consumers. M-9 or Kabana 6H, is resi

Published: Mar 11, 2016

Tonnes of carrots are thrown away by producers in the Burgas region, in Bulgaria, while the market is flooded by Turkish produce grown with (allegedly) dubious methods, warned Mr Nikolay Nedialkov, president of the Association of Vegetable Producers in Bu

Published: Mar 11, 2016

Inflation in China in the month February mounted to +2.3%, highest since July 2014.

Published: Mar 11, 2016

Almeria's pepper production has already halved due to how advanced the season is this year because of the warm winter. Now that temperatures are lower, production is also slower and volumes are scarcer in the auctions

Published: Mar 11, 2016

Morocco has already exported 58% of the tomatoes which it is authorised to ship this 2015/2016 season, according to data published in the latest Horticultural Campaign Monitoring Bulletin,

Published: Mar 11, 2016

Although domestic agricultural production has been increasing in recent years in Cambodia, vegetables, fruit and other food products imported from neighbouring countries, are a threat to the sector.

Published: Mar 11, 2016

According to Manish Behl of Brain Cloud India, the onion market is quite good at the moment, with a satisfactory demand for exports; a circumstance that the company has been able to take advantage of.

Published: Mar 11, 2016

The Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) General Administration has announced it has temporarily banned all import of kiwiberries from New Zealand.

Published: Mar 11, 2016

Pepper prices are exceptionally high at the moment, recording values as high as 18 Euro for a 5 kilo box, compared to the usual 10-12 Euro, and this, according to Mr Avi Kadan, of AdaFresh, is due to the fact that, “the volume from Israel has been reduced

Published: Mar 11, 2016

The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Wednesday hiked its forecast for sugar supplies in the 2015/16 marketing year on a higher outlook for sugar imports, a move expected to ease concern over a raw supply shortage for the country’s cane refiners.

Published: Mar 10, 2016

During its grand opening on Friday 4 March 2016, Greenblend showed how versatile tomatoes can be as a product. Greenblend, started by Greenpack, in Maasdijk