Agricultural cooperation between Vietnam and Japan has been developing over recent years; last November the export of Vietnamese mangoes to Japan was permitted and subsequently, Japanese apples were licensed to be exported to Vietnam.
Although Pakistan produces more than 30 varieties of fruit, including citrus, mango, apple and banana, only a small fraction is exported due to a lack of storage and processing facilities.
On Friday 26 February, Peru's anti-trust regulator reported it had started a sanctions procedure against 17 shipping companies it suspects of colluding on prices for years on goods moved between the country's Callao port and Asia.
The Chinese surgeon who claimed to have grown vegetables on Antarctica whilst on an expedition to the North pole has been accused of violating Antarctic Treaty which prohibits introducing new animals and plants in the region.
This week the British Journal of Nutrition published new meta-analysis that adds to the evidence that organic production can boost key nutrients in foods.
Deccan Produce started to ship kinnows to Russia this season for the first time, the opportunity came along as other major producing countries were deficient this year.
UK-based supermarket chain Morrisons and US-based online retailer Amazon have entered into a supply agreement, through which the supermarket will make several of its products available on the ecommerce platform.
World soybean and wheat prices will drop further next season, despite falling output prospects, with corn values to fall too – but the rapeseed market will buck the trend, Australian officials said.
New Zealand posted its first monthly trade surplus in seven months in January. The merchandise trade surplus amounted to $8.1 million, compared with expectations for a $245.5 million deficit in a Reuters poll of economists, it was partly aided by higher s
Washington State University spent 20 years developing their new release the Cosmic Crisp apple; for at least one decade, it will be available for planting only to Washington farmers.
Unica Group is the leading Spanish vegetable exporter, according to a study published by the specialist in the food industry Alimarket in its issue of January 2016.
In June 2012, a truck carrying bananas overturned and allegedly caused a fire which destroyed a Massachusetts restaurant, as a result the owners of the restaurant are suing the Chiquita banana company.
Bengali government data projected this year's potato crop would be at the same level as last year; however, wholesale potato prices in West Bengal have risen by 15-40 percent this month and the national average for the month shows an 18 percent jump, sugg
In December 2015, 30,986 tonnes of bananas were shipped by the Canary Islands to the Spanish mainland, while imports from Africa and Latin America amounted to 21,782 tonnes and re-exports to 6,538 tonnes.
"Fyffes has delivered another important step up in earnings in 2015, its seventh consecutive year of growth", commented the company's chairman David McCann.
“In the beginning of the year we had a lot of produce from Spain. However the Spanish season is almost at its end so we changed to the ORRI variety from Israel,” states Benjamin Becker, manager of the company Hans Becker at the wholesalers market in Düsse
With no previous knowledge, experience or money, Ukranian garlic company Patriot was started by Nataliya Sudarkina and a friend back in 2008. The friends had only 25 ha of land without any communications, equipment or machinery.
