Published: Feb 19, 2016

The citrus fruit campaign did not go well for the COPAM consortium. President Rocco Scarpari explained that "the campaign started in early September 2015 but there were many problems because, in our area, we had to deal with a 40% drop in volumes."

Published: Feb 18, 2016

Polish apples are currently the cheapest in Eastern Europe. According to statistics, the rates received by Polish growers stand at 0.15-0.31 Euro per kilo, while Ukrainians get 0.21-0.41 Euro, Russians 0.52-0.82 Euro and Moldovan and Belarusian growers ob

Published: Feb 18, 2016

Imported fruit has been in hot demand during the Spring Festival season, for example, the sales of Chilean cherries in recent years has kept increasing. Generally speaking, imported fruits are more expensive due to their higher transportation costs and hi

Published: Feb 18, 2016

Close to 100 million people in southern Africa, Asia and Latin America are facing food and water shortages due to severe droughts and floods triggered by one of the strongest El Niño weather events ever recorded, reports UK newspaper The Guardian.

Published: Feb 18, 2016

According to information provided by Digi24, only 10% of fruits and vegetables imported by Romania are currently controlled by phytosanitary inspectors.

Published: Feb 18, 2016

A task force chaired by Business Secretary Sajid Javid will bring together leading British businesses to increase British and international business activity in the Middle East and generate hundreds of thousands of job opportunities – for Syrian refugees

Published: Feb 18, 2016

The European Commissioner for Agriculture, Phil Hogan, affirmed that the European Commission (EC) is studying the implementation of new measures to ease the pressure on EU agricultural producers, who are going through "a very difficult" situation, he said

Published: Feb 18, 2016

Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh emphasised the tremendous potential of horticulture in the north-eastern states, but for this potential to be realised, Singh stated that ongoing interventions need to be scaled up.

Published: Feb 18, 2016

As a result of the European Commission's anti-trust probe, the EC has received commitments from 15 international container shipping lines to increase transparency in publishing future price increases over the next three years.

Published: Feb 18, 2016

Tuesday 16 February, food and beverage giant PepsiCo signed a pact with the Maharashtra government to promote fruit processing and horticulture in the state as part of it's committed to invest Rs 330 billion in the country by 2020.

Published: Feb 18, 2016

An investigation from the State Fiscal Service in Dnipropetrovsk revealed that a company devoted to the canning of fruits and vegetables had evaded the payment of more than 108.8 million UAH (3.6 million Euro) in taxes.

Published: Feb 18, 2016

The One Show, a popular BBC magazine programme, confirmed its support for the NFU's Fruit and Veg Pledge this week. The programme highlighted the importance of “repairing the fractured relationship between suppliers and the supermarkets.”

Published: Feb 18, 2016

In light of the past ban on Indian mango by the European Union, mango growers and government authorities in Maharashta are being extra cautious this season to ensure that mango exports go smoothly.

Published: Feb 18, 2016

According to potato industry officials 2015 was a slower year for sales of fresh Maine potatoes: sales volume were down 2.2 percent overall and the largest-selling russet burbank was down 3.2 percent, reports Nielsen FreshFacts data. However one variety d

Published: Feb 18, 2016

In recent weeks enough potatoes have left for export and there is a good demand for potatoes from the industry. "The market got through the ABC virus well," observes Adrie Kleinjan, of the eponymous potato trader, referencing the drop out of Africa, the f

Published: Feb 16, 2016

Experts in Vietnam are debating the best direction for the country's agriculture industry to go in; while agricultural resources are abundant, farmers remain poor. Therefore, some experts suggest turning to organic agriculture to earn money on the global

Published: Feb 16, 2016

The development of the lemon and grapefruit campaign in the Region of Murcia has so far been financially positive, despite a 30 percent drop in volume in the current harvest.

Published: Feb 16, 2016

China has now become the main destination for Chilean farm products, with fruit, wine and salmon among the main items of Chilean agricultural exports to China, data from the Agriculture Ministry and other government agencies show.

Published: Feb 16, 2016

China is an emerging and promising market: in light of the saturation of the European market, the natural sales market for Spanish exports, fruit exporters in the country are looking to diversify.

Published: Feb 16, 2016

President Mark Napper of Low Chill Australia, an association which combines the activities of low chill stonefruit growers, said the number of producers was now about half its peak of about 120 growers