Published: Apr 18, 2016

Taiwan will again import white-flesh dragon fruit from Vietnam as of June 1 after eight years of suspension, the Vietnam Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development's Plant Protection Department said.

Published: Apr 18, 2016

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will buy up to 30 million pounds of wild blueberries to help with flagging prices and over-supply.

Published: Apr 18, 2016

With the Canadian Produce Marketing Association in full swing, one of the country’s leading fresh produce sales, marketing and distribution companies announces the promotion of Steve Young to the role of sales director for Canada.

Published: Apr 14, 2016

Brazil recently began cultivating macadamia nuts commercially. The country cultivated this dry fruit before, but trade was not very developed and they were used as fertilizers as producers were barely able to sell them

Published: Apr 14, 2016

A recent study has found that middle-aged people with metabolic syndrome (Mets) had improved blood pressure and vascular function after eating pears daily.

Published: Apr 14, 2016

The State CPI(M) is getting ready to celebrate Vishu with organic vegetables.

Published: Apr 14, 2016

Just like it happened in the past for products like bananas, nowadays exotic fruit like mangos, avocados and passion fruit are becomming increasingly popular with consumers.

Published: Apr 14, 2016

For the second consecutive month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) raised its estimate of the 2015-2016 Florida orange crop predicting growers will produce 76 million boxes, a 7 percent increase.

Published: Apr 14, 2016

According to Julio Reyes Vazquez, the president of the municipal committee of the National Peasant Confederation (CNC), more than 1,200 hectares of citrus are at the mercy of pests, such as the fruit fly, that would affect 2,000 producers in Tuxpan alone,

Published: Apr 14, 2016

30% of the 400,000 tons of apples produced in the region of Cuauhtemoc is of poor quality. As a result, that 30% is sold at dumping prices to the market forcing producers to sell the remaining 70%

Published: Apr 14, 2016

A burgeoning European appetite for basil, a versatile aromatic herb in the mint family, has opened a window of opportunity for farmers in Nakuru County in Kenya who are now earning up to $2000 a month in exports.

Published: Apr 14, 2016

Dimethoate, an insecticide widely used to protect crops such as cherries, could be harmful to humans, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), which advises EU policymakers, said on Tuesday.

Published: Apr 12, 2016

Abundant Produce, a specialist seed supplier has bred tough tomatoes that can sweat out Pakistan's summer and "cutecumbers" that need little water, and now the company is planting itself on the Australian Securities Exchange.

Published: Apr 12, 2016

Tomra Systems ASA, the parent company of Tomra Sorting Food, located in Belgium, among other places, reported a record turnover over 2015 of 6,143 MNOK (650 million Euro).

Published: Apr 12, 2016

Australian agencies are finalizing procedures to allow Vietnamese exporters to ship mangoes into the market, said a source from the Vietnam Business Association.

Published: Apr 12, 2016

Currently the onion market is fairly calm. Is it the calm before the storm? “No one knows,” Lindert Moerdijk responds. “It could be the calm before the storm.

Published: Apr 12, 2016

Cora Seeds, a seed company located in Cesena, has received a lot of requests from Eastern countries this year, Russia in particular.

Published: Apr 12, 2016

The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has introduced regulations to make it more difficult to import seed after the invasive weed velvetleaf was discovered in fodder beet imports. It is now growing on farms throughout the country.

Published: Apr 11, 2016

According to Ricardo Marquez Portillo, president of Unifrut, the Ministry of Economy will issue its final decision in the tariff case established against US apples in early 2016.

Published: Apr 11, 2016

Watermelons are selling a thigh prices in China. Last year, during the same period, prices hoovered around 6 Yuan per kilogram. This year the fruit is sold at 8 Yuan per kilogram. Watermelons from Hainan province in the South of China are sold at 12 Yuan