Published: Mar 16, 2016

Cassava has the potential to be processed into four product areas, making it an industrial crop, which could reduce imports, increase exports, create employment and increase smallholder farmers’ incomes along the value chain.

Published: Mar 16, 2016

Although the strawberries grown in Himachal Pradesh town are in demand in north Indian cities, and good weather has meant strong production this year, growers still want more help from the government.

Published: Mar 16, 2016

"Expectations are high, but unfortunately apple prices are very low." The harvest of the Red Delicious apple variety, one of the most representative varieties of the region, has begun.

Published: Mar 16, 2016

Retail wholesaler Hembergs says that there is a growing health trend in the Swedish market for products such as ginger, turmeric, cabbage, sweet potatoes and watercress. There is also a growing interest amongst consumers for vegetarian food.

Published: Mar 09, 2016

Northern Peru has been severely hit by heavy rains in recent days, which have caused many floods throughout the region. 5,000 hectares of crops have been seriously affected after the overflowing of the river Tumbes, with organic bananas, rice, lemon, coco

Published: Mar 09, 2016

A timeline has been produced by researchers on projected climate change and how it is set to alter the face of agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa. If no action is taken, climate change can have a significant adverse affect on food security

Published: Mar 09, 2016

The extreme cold wave weather is the severest condition that banana growers have experienced. As cold and low temperature are the enemies for banana plantation.

Published: Mar 09, 2016

The first British cucumbers arrived on UK supermarket shelves last week. According to data prepared by ProduceView, Asda and Sainsbury's had the first British cucumbers available.

Published: Mar 09, 2016

"Celeriac is a very popular with our customers,” states Wilhelm Andree of the company Willi Andree situated at the fresh food market Düsseldorf, “At the moment the demand is very large and the price and quality are alright too.”

Published: Mar 08, 2016

The poor results achieved in the most recent citrus campaigns, combined with the growing popularity of tropical fruits, are leading to significant changes in the fields of Cadiz and Malaga.

Published: Mar 08, 2016

The Israeli ministry of agriculture is targeting its efforts on lowering regulation in the import sector in 2016. The government hopes that significant price decreases for consumers can be achieved by lowering costs for importers.

Published: Mar 08, 2016

Eduardo Calzada Rovirosa, the Mexican Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food, confirmed to EL MUNDO on Thursday that Mexico will denounce Costa Rica to the World Trade Organization (WTO) for suspending Hass avocado impo

Published: Mar 08, 2016

Greek onion producers are not hiding their concern, given that production volumes are likely to increase and cause prices to collapse, taking into account that onions are characterised by their high production costs.

Published: Mar 08, 2016

The acreage of processing tomatoes grown in the region has been rebounding and the Ontario Processing Vegetable Growers is taking steps to continue that trend.

Published: Mar 08, 2016

Australian cabbage growers could be influenced to grow different varieties based on the wide range of consumer tastes on the market.

Published: Mar 08, 2016

Agrafresh has been supplying various ready made salads and vegetables to the retail for fifteen years. This year the company is introducing something new: precooked vegetables.

Published: Mar 04, 2016

India’s packaged juice market has charted a high growth trajectory, thanks to its easy availability, anytime-anywhere consumption, and convenience.

Published: Mar 04, 2016

A new study conducted by researchers from the University of Florida, shows that eating a handful of almonds everyday can improve a person’s diet quality which may have numerous lifelong health benefits.

Published: Mar 04, 2016

Citrus growers from Sonora sent 1,100 barrels of organic pasteurized orange juice, i.e. about 54,230 gallons of the product, to the Netherlands.

Published: Mar 04, 2016

Next season, Argentinian mandarin and orange producers will face a 'negative profitability', with serious oversupply issues that may lead to a collapse of domestic prices and the costs tied to inflation, as well as with the inability to alleviate their si