Published: Nov 30, 2012

During the public account of his activities, the Chilean minister of Agriculture, Luis Mayol, highlighted the strength of the trade ties with China; a country which made 100% of its blueberry imports from Chile during the first semester of the year.

Published: Nov 30, 2012 By: Carlos Nunez

Shipments of Washington pears have gotten off to a good start this year due to good demand. Although volume is slightly down, there are enough supplies to make this a good year for the state's pear industry.

Published: Nov 30, 2012

Indonesia's fresh fruit industry has succeeded in sending product to the Australian market for the first time, with boxes of mangosteens arriving on Thursday.

Published: Nov 29, 2012

As Americans finish up their Thanksgiving leftovers, there are two turkeys who skipped the oven and are heading into retirement. Following what has become a national tradition, President Obama “pardoned” two turkeys, Cobbler and his understudy Gobbler, in

Published: Nov 29, 2012

Leading Australian gourmet cheese brand Jindi Cheese has been sold to Lactalis, the large French-based dairy group.

Published: Nov 29, 2012

DUTCH fruit trader Fruto del Campo is now importing cherries from Chile and Argentina, after business agreements were set up with Latin American producers to supply cherries to European retailers.

Published: Nov 29, 2012

Daniel Constantin, the Romanian minister of agriculture, declared on Tuesday that all fruit imports from Turkey would undergo detailed controls as a result of recent grapefruit imports that had been found to contain pesticide residues above the legally pe

Published: Nov 29, 2012

The Food and Drug Administration has announced that, under the Food Safety Modernisaztion Act 2011, they have suspended the food facility registration of Sunland Inc. This is the first time the FDA has ever exercised its right to do this. The reason for t

Published: Nov 29, 2012

On 22nd November, Temuco, in the Southern regions of Chile, experienced a frost. Much of the area's blueberry cultivation was affected to varying degrees.

Published: Nov 29, 2012 By: Rossella Gigli

With a great audience participation through all the three days, the eighth edition of Interpoma, the biennial international exhibition for the cultivation, conservation and marketing of apples, was held at Fiera Bolzano from September 15th through 17th.

Published: Nov 29, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

The harvest of Polish apples has now finished. Due to early cold nights in October, some of the late varieties such as Idared were not harvested on time. Despite this most of the volume has been been picked.

Published: Nov 29, 2012

Consumers have been warned to expect shortages of British winter vegetables in the run-up to Christmas, as UK farmers count the cost of devastating floods and poor weather on their crops.

Published: Nov 27, 2012 By: John Wood

Plans for a £30M tomato growing business in Suffolk, which could produce about 10% of the UK’s tomatoes using heat from a nearby incinerator, have been unveiled.

Published: Nov 26, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

According to Henry Smienk, marketing director of Ramiro Arnedo, two types of firms can be found in the seeds sector: on the one hand, firms that only buy and sell seeds, and on the other, those developing and selling their own seeds.

Published: Nov 26, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Morrisons has launched the first UK grown Smitten™ apples. The chain has been the exclusive UK supplier of the apples for two years now, but this is the first time that UK grown fruit has been sold.

Published: Nov 26, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

The Thanksgiving season often signals the arrival of Louisiana's citrus harvest - satsumas and navel oranges on prominent display in grocery stores, community markets and highway fruit stands.

Published: Nov 26, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

As the amount of Spanish kaki fruit increases, competing producers of persimmons in Europe find the low cost of the kaki fruit hard to match.

Published: Nov 23, 2012

It has recently been announced that Tasmania has received clearance to export cherries to China.

Published: Nov 23, 2012

As the apple season progresses in the Pacific Northwest, shortages throughout the country have meant that demand has remained robust.

Published: Nov 22, 2012

Philippine banana exports to China are expected to increase by at least 5 percent to 475,650 metric tons in 2012 from 453,000 in 2011, despite the trade fiasco that affected the entry of shipments in the middle of the year.