Published: Dec 09, 2015

After the Russian jet crisis in Turkey, Russia closed their doors to Turkish fresh fruit and vegetable exports. After the revelation of the banned products list, a lot of attention has been paid to the fact that lemons are not on it.

Published: Dec 09, 2015

Direct sale of oranges grown by Vidarbha farmers to the district residents sans any middlemen has evoked an encouraging response and is proving to be a profitable initiative for the farmers, officials said.

Published: Dec 09, 2015

The Fruit Exporters Association of Chile AG, ASOEX, celebrates its 80 years of existence with an activity involving high national and regional authorities, trade associations of workers, peasants and business, diplomatic representatives of friendly countr

Published: Dec 09, 2015

The Minister of Agriculture, Carlos Furche, stated that, after confirming the region of Valparaiso was free from fruit fly specimens, Chile has regained its official free of fruit fly status.

Published: Dec 09, 2015

In the near future, it may be possible to start the export of Georgian citrus to Central Asia, reports Zaur Putkaradze, Minister of Agriculture of Georgia, to the newspaper "Kommersant". The department is currently actively negotiating this issue.

Published: Dec 09, 2015

Peru has set ambitious goals for 2016. Under the aura of being the only Latin American nation that is growing steadily (yet a little slower these days), the Peruvian economy has opened its doors wide to the globalised world and announced its decision to c

Published: Dec 09, 2015

About 20 tonnes of Moldovan apples have reached Qatar's local market for the first time; a milestone that has been possible as a result of collaboration between representatives of the Moldovan Embassy in Qatar and the local business environment.

Published: Dec 09, 2015

Mr Khalil Mubarak, Under-secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture in Ismailia, reported that the total value of the Governorate's fruit and vegetable exports between January and November this year, which totalled 2,779,451 tonnes, has amounted to 276.5 mi

Published: Dec 09, 2015

The world economy continues to sputter along, but the news is not all bad—the slowdown is making it cheaper to ship goods by sea.

Published: Dec 09, 2015

The state-owned MMTC has suffered a loss of Rs 80.3 million ($1.2 million USD) on onion imports, borne out of the price stabilisation fund, Parliament was informed on Monday.

Published: Dec 09, 2015

Banana exports from Cameroon since the beginning of 2015 have reached 199,000 tonnes, leading up to the third quarter of this year, sources from the Cameroon Banana Association (ASSOBACAM) revealed last Thursday.

Published: Dec 09, 2015

The Honduran Central Bank reported that Honduran banana exports increased by 10.6% in currencies and 6.3% in volume in the third quarter of 2015 when compared with the same period last year.

Published: Dec 09, 2015

A new report released on 8 December by the Australia Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences shows domestic vegetable prices were 6 per cent lower on average in 2014-15.

Published: Dec 09, 2015

More than a month has passed since a severe heat wave caused the destruction of numerous tomato crops in Israel, consequently sending prices into a tailspin.

Published: Dec 09, 2015

This year can be regarded as a good year for tomato farmers. Recently, tomato market prices are surprisingly high. The wholesale price for raw tomatoes climbed up to 10 Yuan per kilo. This is a new high since 1996 when the price was 4 Yuan per kilo.

Published: Dec 09, 2015

Over the past quarter century, the worldwide production of vegetables has doubled and the value of global trade in vegetables now exceeds that of cereals.

Published: Dec 09, 2015

The pineapple season has been a tough one for Glasshouse Mountain grower Allandale Pines, and now that the harvest is over numbers are in and the total volume was down around 100 tonnes, at 500 instead of 600 for the season finished in mid November.

Published: Dec 09, 2015

Citrus sales have slowed down after the week previous to the St. Nicholas celebrations in Central Europe. At the same time, some supermarket chains are selling Spanish oranges at rock bottom prices, according to reports from various associations and agric

Published: Dec 09, 2015

Onion exporters and packers cannot complain right now, "There are a great deal of onions going out. Everyone has plenty of work and has collected a good deal of supply, the mood is good.

Published: Dec 09, 2015

While shippers insist that California grapes will continue to be available through Christmas, confidence in the product is declining. Retailer complaints range from poor color on red grapes to decay and condition issues on all varieties.