Published: Feb 26, 2016

Onions started to come on the market in Jianshui, Yunnan. The production level was similar to last year, with a smaller volume at the beginning. Merchants from Shandong, Guangdong, Gansu flock to production areas, pushing demand and prices up.

Published: Feb 26, 2016

“The advantage of Costa Rica over Panama are the years of production. Costa Rica started producing pineapples at commercial volumes years before Panama started,” explains Gino Spadafora, president of Tropical Queen extra sweet pineapples from Panama.

Published: Feb 25, 2016

As part of a drive to boost exports to the Middle East, the Victorian Government is participating in Gulfood in Dubai, which will run until February 25.

Published: Feb 25, 2016

Zespri International, which holds a monopoly over most kiwifruit exports, raised its forecast tray prices for the 2016 year as the season nears its conclusion, and expects to see earnings pick up in 2017.

Published: Feb 25, 2016

Prices for cucumbers coming into the U.S. from Mexico have come down from the highs seen in previous months. As more production regions in Mexico came on, supplies increased and, coupled with additional imports from Honduras, that made prices dip in Febru

Published: Feb 25, 2016

A tomato shortage is being predicted in Ghana in the coming months, due to hikes in the exchange rate of the Ghana Cedi against the CFA Franc, as most of the tomatoes consumed in the country are imported from Cote d'Ivoire.

Published: Feb 25, 2016

During the Spring Festival this year, Beijing vegetable price rises arrived about two weeks earlier than usual. To be more specific, the vegetable prices started to surge as of December 8th, lunar calendar.

Published: Feb 25, 2016

"We could do with a little more activity in the hard fruit market," states Erik Kieftenburg, of Fruit Noordholland, from Zwaagdijk. "We are currently working with the last Doyenne du Comice pears.

Published: Feb 25, 2016

“We expect our first cherry crop towards the end of March. We are inspired to grow import variety cherries in China. Our advantage is that our crop is one of the earliest to be available in China,” says Faraz Maani, the managing director of Praxis Agricul

Published: Feb 25, 2016

A record supply of kiwifruit is coming from Europe.

Published: Feb 24, 2016

At the end of 2014 43.7 million hectare of land was farmed organically. And, except in South America, the organically farmed land increased on all continents.

Published: Feb 24, 2016

Landgard looks back on a very successful Fruit Logistica in Berlin. All three days of the fair were very busy at the Landgard stand in hall 20. The focus was on the modern, international marketing producers' cooperative with more than 3,200 members.

Published: Feb 24, 2016

“We expect our first cherry crop towards the end of March. We are inspired to grow import variety cherries in China. Our advantage is that our crop is one of the earliest to be available in China,” says Faraz Maani, the managing director of Praxis Agricul

Published: Feb 24, 2016

Tokita Seed, a Japanese company specializing in seed varieties for the fresh produce industry, is expanding its presence in Europe with a couple of new additions. The Fioretto, a cauliflower variety, will soon be in U.K. supermarkets as well as retail loc

Published: Feb 24, 2016

A record supply of kiwifruit is coming from Europe. “Italy is having the largest kiwi crop in their history, they are having a very strong season,” explained Kurt Cappelluti of Stellar Distributing in Madera, California.

Published: Feb 24, 2016

Movement of grapefruit is usually slow around the end of the year, so it was not unexpected when the grapefruit market slowed down in France in December. But January brought better sales as well as better prices.

Published: Feb 22, 2016

In only a month, the wholesale price of cucumbers in Bulgaria has increased by 44%, reaching 2.57 Lev per kilo (1.31 Euro), according to data supplied by the State Commission for Commodity Exchanges and Wholesale Markets. The main reason for this has alle

Published: Feb 22, 2016

Bulgarians currently consume less fruit and vegetables than the recommended minimum, according to a survey conducted by the National Rural Network.

Published: Feb 19, 2016

Californian researchers are thinking outside the box for methods to deal with drought: flooding. According to Toby O’Green, University of California, Davis soil resource specialist, modern irrigation techniques could actually be detrimental in some ways,

Published: Feb 19, 2016

Citrus greening disease in Florida has once again limited the volume of grapefruit the state's growers will ship this season. With less fruit to go around, the season will once again end sooner than the previous season did.