Published: Aug 19, 2016

Polish packaging company Famag specializes in a wide range of packaging products for agriculture and industry companies with automated packaging, the most common examples being, raschel bags, knitted nets, pre-sealed packaging (novo-pack), pallet wrap net

Published: Aug 18, 2016

Idaho's Northwest Nazarene University associate professor Duke Bulanon is developing two projects for the agriculture industry: one is the IdaBOT, which is a robot that can move on its own through vineyards and orchards.

Published: Aug 17, 2016

UK-based KM Packaging Services extended its range of lidding films with the launch of an innovative new resealing film, K Reseal, which can be opened and reclosed multiple times.

Published: Aug 16, 2016

A scientist from the Autonomous University of Nayarit (UAN) developed a research to use parasitoid wasps as a natural pesticide against the redbay ambrosia beetle that damages avocado crops in Mexico.

Published: Aug 15, 2016

Mark and Kathy Irwin have decided to stop production at their Manx, Isle of Man, business, as demand for their consultancy services overseas continues to grow.

Published: Aug 11, 2016

Uflex Ltd., one of India’s largest global flexible packaging solution company has been working with customers in India to extend the shelf life of exotic fruits.

Published: Aug 10, 2016

According to the latest market study released by Technavio, the global food packaging machinery market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 6.61% during the forecast period.

Published: Aug 08, 2016

Seedless and easy-peel varieties are the future of citrus.

Published: Aug 08, 2016

Supplies for Ontario greenhouse cucumbers are strong and will continue to get stronger right through to the end of the season in November.

Published: Aug 05, 2016

Manter recently completed a project in Canada which allows the client to control all machines from one central point.

Published: Aug 03, 2016

By March 2015, Trinity, St Mary, Jamaica, will have a new banana factory.

Published: Aug 03, 2016

The Brazilian grape export season will start in September and since last year, a new variety is exported from the company GVS: the Arra 15, a white seedless grape.

Published: Aug 02, 2016

Tong Engineering is offering a time-saving Diagnostics module as part of its latest pro-series Auto-Touch HMI touch screen control.

Published: Aug 02, 2016

After more than 20 years of trial and error, Japanese researchers have produced onions, which release nearly none of the eye-irritating gases responsible for causing tears when chopping the vegetable.

Published: Aug 02, 2016

One of the keys to preventing food-borne illness and food waste is making sure that the surfaces at production facilities remain free of contamination between scheduled cleanings.

Published: Aug 01, 2016

A two-day Pineapple Field Days in Yeppoon last week attracted more than 100 people, with suggestions that 80 per cent of Australia's pineapple farms were represented.

Published: Aug 01, 2016

On Thursday 28 July, an agreement was signed between the governor of Nyandarua county in Kenya and a German delegation, which will see potato production increase in the Kenyan county.

Published: Aug 01, 2016

A new device capable of detecting and measuring the level of concentration of pesticides in vegetables has been designed by a group of researchers in Spain.

Published: Jul 29, 2016

To encourage cultivation of vegetables under controlled atmosphere, Punjab government has empanelled five firms to assist farmers to set up polyhouses and polynet houses in their fields.

Published: Jul 28, 2016

Polish company Sorter has created a copyrighted vision system called Visort, installed in all the sorting machines produced by Sorter.