Washington State University spent 20 years developing their new release the Cosmic Crisp apple; for at least one decade, it will be available for planting only to Washington farmers.
Unica Group is the leading Spanish vegetable exporter, according to a study published by the specialist in the food industry Alimarket in its issue of January 2016.
In June 2012, a truck carrying bananas overturned and allegedly caused a fire which destroyed a Massachusetts restaurant, as a result the owners of the restaurant are suing the Chiquita banana company.
Bengali government data projected this year's potato crop would be at the same level as last year; however, wholesale potato prices in West Bengal have risen by 15-40 percent this month and the national average for the month shows an 18 percent jump, sugg
In December 2015, 30,986 tonnes of bananas were shipped by the Canary Islands to the Spanish mainland, while imports from Africa and Latin America amounted to 21,782 tonnes and re-exports to 6,538 tonnes.
"Fyffes has delivered another important step up in earnings in 2015, its seventh consecutive year of growth", commented the company's chairman David McCann.
“In the beginning of the year we had a lot of produce from Spain. However the Spanish season is almost at its end so we changed to the ORRI variety from Israel,” states Benjamin Becker, manager of the company Hans Becker at the wholesalers market in Düsse
With no previous knowledge, experience or money, Ukranian garlic company Patriot was started by Nataliya Sudarkina and a friend back in 2008. The friends had only 25 ha of land without any communications, equipment or machinery.
Rosa International was founded in 2003. The importer has had a sales agency in Germany for some time now, and opened an office in the Netherlands two years ago.
Several trends are on-going in the packaging sector, especially in the field of sustainability, in which Jan Van den Heuvel, of VDH Concept, expects big changes in the coming years.
The Belgian organic vegetable season has only just started, but growers and traders are not jumping for joy. According to Rony de Ceuster, of Compra, the situation for some products could even be considered dramatic.
Egypt made its largest grain purchase this season – making up for lost time, after the disruptions to its import programme caused by uncertainties over quarantine rules.
Wheat rose for a second day in Paris and Chicago as earlier declines spurred nations such as Jordan and Saudi Arabia to issue import tenders at a time that the area planted in the U.S. is set to shrink.
The Internal Trade Department of the Commerce Ministry plans to investigate fruit-sorting facilities for Chinese companies that buy Thai fruit for export to China and then resell some of the lower-quality fruit illegally back on the Thai market.
Mexico is the leading producer of fresh prickly pear cactus for human consumption worldwide with 12,000 hectares planted and a production of nearly 825,000 tons per year.
In the past 2 ½ years a depreciating Australian dollar has improved apple and pear growers’ competitive position in a number of significant key markets. Apple and Pear Australia Limited economist Yang Song
Costa Rican watermelon exporters have a golden opportunity to improve their profits thanks to Mexico and Honduras' lower production and sales to the United States, and the permission they received to enter the Cuban market.
