Before the Spring Festival, a cold wave suddenly hit the whole Weifang City in Shandong Province, and the temperature in this area dropped significantly to minus eight degrees, close to the lowest temperature in history ever recorded.
A new report from BB&T Capital Markets suggests that organic price premiums vs. conventional pricing may still be too low from a producer and supplier standpoint, according to news site cnbc.com.
“Pomelo is one of our main products. Our pomelo production consists of three processing plants and three plant bases. Our 'early' plant base covers 70 hectares, our medium plant base consists of 35 hectares and our late plant base is the largest with 140
The effects of a cold, wet winter in Florida will likely linger into spring this year. For many vegetable crops, the crop cycle is such that volumes won't recover until several weeks after weather conditions improve.
Poland is the 6th largest country, in terms of population, in the European Union. The country’s young capital economy, of 26 years, has encouraged foreign investments following government’s open door policy.
Though Pakistan enjoys a positive trade balance when it comes to fresh produce, exports must increase in the coming years. At least that's the opinion of Waheed Ahmed, director of the All Pakistan Fruit and Vegetable Importers, Exporters and Merchants Ass
Double Date Packing Inc. delved into the date business a year ago, and their first season had them processing up to 5,000 pounds of Medjool dates per hour during the packing phase.
Hoedspruit and Letsitele, where about 60% of South Africa's grapefruit is grown, is in a serious drought situation, to add to the woes of the growers the area was also hit by hail last November which has made predictions for the coming season even lower.
A growing number of market-leading local and international packaging manufacturers are using Africa’s Big Seven (AB7) to access rapidly expanding consumer markets across the continent.
In 2015, a total of 12,000 tons of fruits were imported from Fangchenggang Port Service Center in Guangxi Province. With a value worth 52,077 million yuan, the growth trend in fruit import is quite evident.
The Potato Industry Leadership Institute (PILI) provides tools to help younger growers and industry members develop as leaders and motivate them to commit their time and energy to the betterment of the U.S. potato industry.
Talks are expected to take place between the Pilipino Banana Growers and Exporters Association (PBGEA) and the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI)'s Plant Quarantine Service on the possibility of lifting the ban on some banana exporters in Mindanao by Chinese
The area figures of fruiting vegetables or greenhouse vegetables in 2016 have been announced for the LAVA auctions. These are the areas of all growers connected to the LAVA auctions, including the Dutch growers connected to Belgian auctions. Last year the
A warm winter with hardly any frost doesn't seem to be the best recipe for good kale sales, but you won't hear Mike Glas of Glas-Groenten from Broek op Langedijk complain.
Lemon plums from Chile will add color and excitement to the stonefruit display a little longer this year, as volumes increase and the unique yellow fruit edges into the mainstream.
Despite the challenging growing conditions in some of the major production areas, the estimate of topfruit exports from South Africa is expected to increase slightly by 3% (for both apples and pears).
Egypt’s agricultural quarantine authority has rejected a shipment of Canadian wheat, saying it contained traces of the fungus ergot, a trade source said and official documents obtained by Reuters showed.
Persian lime producers have stated there will be an acute shortage of fruit that would begin next week and towards March. The shortage, they say, will be so acute they won't be able to reap three boxes per hectare.
