Published: Jan 19, 2016

European leader of processed fruit and vegetables with over 550 thousand tons of processed produce by over 3,300 employees and a turnover exceeding €1 billion - is once again taking part in Marca 2016 (BolognaFiere, 13-14 January 2016), the international

Published: Jan 19, 2016

Since the introduction of the Russian embargo against agricultural products from the European Union in 2014, the EU has been keen to find new markets. The request to simplify market access to the US for European pome fruits has been pending since 2007.

Published: Jan 19, 2016

In India, annual growth in horticulture has seen fruit production surge impressively, growing faster than vegetables, which constitute the largest segment of the agriculture sector. India ranks second as the largest global fruit producer behind China.

Published: Jan 19, 2016

The Pazazz apple is a descendant of the popular Honeycrisp, it is grown in Minnesota by Honeybear Brands and it took them more that a decade to get its balanced sweet-tart flavor right.

Published: Jan 19, 2016

The cooperative of fruit growers from Fernández Oro, in the province of Rio Negro, are giving away some 150,000 kilos of pears that they harvested last season and kept in cold storage because they could not sell them in the domestic market.

Published: Jan 19, 2016

According to deputy speaker of the State Duma Alexander Zhukov, deputies of Russia's State Duma are planning to develop a bill to stimulate the program to substitute imports of foreign products with domestic agricultural produce.

Published: Jan 19, 2016

Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India, has suggested blending at least 2% fruit juice in aerated drinks to help distressed farmers find a new market for their produce. He proposed the idea to top officials of leading aerated drinks companies who visi

Published: Jan 19, 2016

In Australia, a survey of the supply chain for six fresh foods found that shops get as high as a 76 percent share of the final price while growers, especially of oranges and apples, miss out. Growers complain that whilst retailers and wholesalers still pr

Published: Jan 19, 2016

Some data on the market trend and distributor brands had been anticipated during the opening of Marca, but additional figures on the 1.1% growth of consumer packaged goods expected for 2016 were commented upon during the convention "La marca del distribut

Published: Jan 19, 2016

Fresh Express Inc, based in Salinas, California has voluntarily recalled 350 cases of packaged baby spinach that may have been exposed to almonds, due to the risk of triggering severe, and even life-threatening physical reactions among people allergic to

Published: Jan 19, 2016

In Uttar Pradesh, northern India, unusually warm weather in December, related to El Nino, has caused mango trees to flower early. Now growers fear that the fall in temperatures witnessed lately will hit crops meant for the summer market, as flowering mang

Published: Jan 19, 2016

On January 14, the Embassy of the Republic of Peru held a tasting party to celebrate the arrival of the first batch of Peruvian mangoes in Beijing. It took just three days for the mangoes to be delivered by air to China by CD Industrial Co Ltd.

Published: Jan 19, 2016

In Vietnam, dragon fruit growers in the southern province of Long An have been warned by local authorities to be vigilant against illegal Chinese traders looking to purchase their crop.

Published: Jan 19, 2016

The Hispano-Franco-Italian Joint Committee held a meeting in the Spanish city of Toledo to analyse and share information on the situation of the garlic sector in the three member countries of this forum.

Published: Jan 19, 2016

In Kumluca in Turkey’s Antalya region, growers are still finding buyers for their California peppers in Russia, in spite of the restrictions in place. Growers say that California pepper exports to Russia have continued without a break and the peppers are

Published: Jan 19, 2016

The Cabal group, based in Mexico, manages several banana brands, such as San Carlos and Bananas de México. It recently launched a campaign that will be presented for the first time to a global audience at FRUIT LOGISTICA 2016.

Published: Jan 19, 2016

The supply of Spanish peppers is on a back burner. According to a trader, less volumes are arriving because there was earlier harvest in the previous months due to the warm weather in Spain.

Published: Jan 19, 2016

The Pakistani government has set a goal to export 400,000 tons this season, and based on export numbers from previous years, it is an ambitious goal. Local companies have made efforts to ramp up production in order to meet this goal, though the political

Published: Jan 19, 2016

Ripening is a process in fruits that causes them to become edible. The fruit becomes sweeter, less green and softer. During the process of fruit ripening, changes in texture, colour, flavour and aroma occur in addition to alteration in levels of vitamins

Published: Jan 18, 2016

Kayem Foods Inc., a Chelsea, Mass. establishment, is recalling approximately 22,182 pounds of chicken sausage products due to misbranding, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.