Florida's strawberry prices usually start off high, with growers receiving wholesale prices in the mid-$20-per-flat range at the start of the harvest season in late November and early December.
In January 2016, compared to the same month of the previous year, average apple prices on wholesale markets were 42% higher; meanwhile, at horticultural cooperatives
In the first three quarters of last year, Russia imported only 194.4 thousand tonnes of pears, compared to the 305.4 thousand tonnes of the same period of 2014 and the 266.3 thousand tonnes imported two years earlier, reports FAMMU/FAPA.
The California Avocado Commission (CAC) announced the appointment of Carolyn Becker to retail marketing director for the northwest region and the promotion of Zac Benedict to online marketing director.
Vegetables are one of Rwanda's main export items to East African Community (EAC) countries; last year, overall, exports to EAC recorded a slight drop, according to official data released on Thursday 18 February.
Alfredo Gryciuk, the head of the National Plant Health and Seed Quality Service (Senave) said that the new requirements and procedures for the registration of importers of plants and products of plant origin would apply starting next April.
Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc., executives reported that an oversupply of bananas in 2015 and the use of banana ships in the global drug trade have had an adverse effect on quarterly earnings, despite gains made in the growing avocado business.
On Monday 22 February, Denmark's first supermarket selling surplus food was opened in Amager. WeFood offers a variety of foods, including fruit and vegetables, that otherwise would have been thrown out either because it was beyond its stated purchase date
Malaysian durian farmers say that mining is destroying arable land and tainting the water they need to irrigate their crops. Farmers from the major growing state Pahang plan to spend nearly two weeks marching over 250 kilometers to parliament in Kuala Lum
Piñata Farms, Australia's largest pineapple producer, has started the harvest at the Northern Territory's biggest pineapple farm, which continues to expand towards year-round production.
Mazamari, one of the districts in the province of Satipo, Junín, was one of the areas of the central jungle that suffered the sombre, tragic and bloody era of terrorism more intensely.
The Philippines' Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is aiming to increase food exports to Japan and the Middle East; 18 companies from the Philippines are set to showcase the country's tropical fruits at the 41st International Food and Beverage Exhibi
Oscar Delgado Rendon, head of the State Defense of Local Farmers from Sinaloa, said they hoped that the climate changes in the area in recent months had not affected the mango's flowering process.
This year marked the first time ever that Nature’s Way, a US grower and supplier of sweet potatoes, had ever been present at Fruit Logistica Berlin, either exhibiting or visiting.
Demand for tomatoes from Pakistan and other neighbouring countries benefits farmers in the remote villages of Madhya Pradesh. The tomato yield in Pakistan is usually low due to the cold climate and frost, hence the increase in demand for Indian tomatoes.
After thirty years' experience in the fruit and vegetable trade, working at domestic wholesalers and renowned exporters, Klaas van den Broek chose to start his own business in 2010.
Last December, the Government of Mexico added Persian Lime to their negotiations with the Government of China. These negotiations are aimed at exporting more Mexican agricultural products to the Chinese market, including the Persian lime grown in Martinez
Nearly four years ago, as a result of the crossing of local Catalan varieties with Italian tomatoes, the Monterosa variety was born, developed by Semillas Fitó.
Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed an environmentally-friendly food packaging material that is free from chemical additives, by fortifying natural chitosan-based composite film with grapefruit seed extract (GFSE).
