A shortage of seeds and agrochemical is causing vegetable production in Venezuela to plummet. FEDEAGRO, the Confederation of Agricultural Producers Association, said that the decline in production is increasing.
In the first half of the year, carrots increased in price the most in St Petersburg, by 51%, as the head of the city department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service, Vadim Vladimirov, reported on Wednesday 27 July.
Extra-EU imports represent only 4% of total European imports. Indeed, EU cucumbers have a clear supremacy on their domestic market, and their import volumes have still increased +7% in value and +8% in volume.
According to an organic products exporter from the Netherlands, Sri Lanka has tremendous potential to get into the organic product export market, because the demand for such products in the entire EU region is growing exponentially.
Efforts funded by the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service’s Emerging Markets Program (EMP) to assess the Mexican market and help buyers embrace U.S. products, have created huge potential for Mexico as a market for U.S. sweet potato exports, according to the
The Tucumán Citrus Association, ATC, is celebrating its 40th anniversary. The association includes all of the active agents in the sector, such as primary producers and fresh and industrial fruit packers.
The South African soft citrus season started early this year – beginning in early June rather than its usual July 4th start and supply has been good for clementines.
In the near future Vietnam expects to export dragon fruit to both Australia and Japan. Recently, experts from Australia’s Department of Agriculture and Water Resources have been on fact-finding tours of Vietnamese provinces to evaluate their dragon fruit
In June, an agricultural company in Kyrgyzstan concluded a contract with a large Russian wholesale company, Agrostar, for the delivery of Kyrgyz fruit and vegetables to Russia.
Thanks to cooperation of the vegetable chain with the government, the first trial shipments of Dutch bell peppers were exported to China over the past two weeks following years of preparation.
Last year, agricultural frost caused huge losses for apricot growers in Malatya. This year growers are experiencing an abundant season, and on the back of the harvest period, have started to dry their fruits.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspectors began recording the failure to properly maintain the Kwong Tung Foods facility at 1840 East 38th Street in Minneapolis in 2010.
The Brazilian market for mushrooms is growing. According to Gustavo Barrichello, from the Villa Barrichello company, the market has been growing by 20% annually.
