Published: Jan 27, 2016

Trevor Abrahams, owner of Trevor’s Farm, says that growing conditions in the 2015/2016 season have been challenging due to the drought and heat.

Published: Jan 27, 2016

In spite of consumer and trade group concerns over the genetically-engineered fruit, Okanagan Specialty Fruits (OSF) of Summerland, British Columbia, has petitioned the U.S. Department of Agriculture to deregulate sales of their Arctic Fuji, which is gene

Published: Jan 27, 2016

Some wholesalers are worried about this year's Spanish strawberry season. “The Spanish season started four or five weeks to soon,” explains a German fruit importer and wholesaler.

Published: Jan 27, 2016

What is the future of small farms in the United States and around the world?

Published: Jan 27, 2016

As part of "Green Week 2016", the agricultural fair held in Berlin, the Uzbek Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, Investments and Trade reported on Jan. 25, that Uzbekistan had signed contracts and agreements for the export of fruits, vegetables and t

Published: Jan 27, 2016

The Philippine Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (Pjepa) has increased trade and improved economic ties between the two countries, largely due to the easing of restrictions and tariff barriers.

Published: Jan 27, 2016

After a fruitless meeting between Greek agricultural producers and the Minister of Labour, Giórgo Katroúnkalo, representatives of the Panhellenic Federation of Associations of Agricultural Producers set up street markets as part of the mobilizations to pr

Published: Jan 27, 2016

The Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation announced that the country has exported a total of 124 thousand tonnes of domestic agricultural products to overseas markets during the first two weeks of 2016.

Published: Jan 27, 2016

In November, Spanish fruit and vegetable imports grew by 16% in volume and 30% in value compared to the same month of 2014, totalling 237,587 tonnes and 179 million Euro, according to data supplied by the Directorate General of Customs and processed by FE

Published: Jan 27, 2016

Container rates usually rise ahead of the Chinese New Year, which this year begins on Feb. 8, as companies try to ship goods to Europe before factories close and millions of workers travel home to celebrate.

Published: Jan 27, 2016

Since the beginning of the initiative to support food banks IFCO SYSTEMS, the market leader of reusable packaging solutions, has donated over 200,000 RPCs (Reusable Plastic Container) to the food banks.

Published: Jan 27, 2016

"It is not often that you see a lively demand with high prices. This was made possible thanks to the mild weather, which favoured the consumption of imported bunch tomatoes," explained Stefano Pezzo, sales manager of Cherry Passion, a company specialising

Published: Jan 27, 2016

Felix Sanjuan is an industrial engineer who has worked in several countries throughout his career. When he was about to retire he decided to come up with some kind of occupation that was compatible with his retirement, included being creative, and that al

Published: Jan 27, 2016

In 2015, Peruvian mango exports not only increased in value and prices, but also arrived to new destinations.

Published: Jan 27, 2016

A prisoner working in a jail kitchen was knocked out by 11 falling boxes of potatoes, weighing just over 17-stone, reports dailymail.co.uk. He had just finished peeling vegetables when he went to return a bag of carrots to the jail's walk-in fridge, and

Published: Jan 27, 2016

Sennar State in Sudan provides most of the country's bananas, yielding 15,000 tons in 2014, while Sudan's banana exports amounted 20,000 tons in the same year, bringing in 6 million US dollars.

Published: Jan 27, 2016

Montgomery Sanchez Ordoñez, an Assembly Member and Vice President of the Commission on Oversight and Political Control of the National Assembly, said the banana sector had accepted the reduction of the price of a box of bananas, from $6.55 to $6.16, becau

Published: Jan 27, 2016

The start of the year 2016 has seen the worst price at origin for tomatoes of the past decade, according to the data analysis carried out by the Prices and Markets Observatory of the Council of Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development of the Governmen

Published: Jan 27, 2016

The tomato was news nearly a year ago because it was becoming a luxury product, as a kilo of tomatoes costs no less than 40 pesos in a grocery store. Now, it can be bought with a few coins, so few that producers in the region have opted to discard more th

Published: Jan 27, 2016

In recent years the supply and acreage of cucumbers at BelOrta has significantly increased. 80% of all the cucumbers that are supplied to Belgium come from 50 BelOrta growers.