Major food commodity prices rose in October, spurred by weather-driven concerns about sugar and palm oil supplies. The UN’s FAO Food Price Index averaged nearly 162 points in October, up 3.9 percent from September, while still down 16 percent from a year
Canadian fruit and vegetable processor Pride Pak is building a new fresh fruit and vegetable processing facility in Orleans County in Medina, New York.
MGP Ingredients, a leading supplier of premium distilled spirits and specialty wheat proteins and starches, reported results for the third quarter period ended 30 September 2015.
Coopers Brewery, one of Australia’s remaining independent commercial beer producers, has managed to increase its yearly profits despite dropping beer consumption amongst Australians.
Farmers harvested a record sugar beet crop this year, said Todd Geselius, vice president of agriculture at Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative at Renville.
New Zealand’s Fonterra Cooperative Group launched a new Fonterra Application Center in Guangzhou, China, designed to bring innovative dairy products and services to the cooperative’s foodservice customers in the region.
The Panamanian Food Safety Authority (AUPSA) ascertained that Panama had been importing some fruit nectars, from different countries, that did not comply with Regulation 31-53 of 1999, which establishes the minimum content of fruit that they should have.
Agricultural Engineers Adana Branch Board Member, Baris Kurtaran states that in Turkey, there are problems being experienced in the marketing of 70% of pomegranates, which are produced in the Mediterranean region.
Italian and Greek apples currently dominate the Egyptian market. According to official data supplied by Egyptian authorities for the first 7 months of 2015
As retailers in Queenstown and New World supermarket in Wellington are selling small 125g boxes of blueberries from $15 to $20, consumers are shocked by the price and refuse to buy them.
"When we talk about pesticides, we are talking about poison," said Carlos Quiroz bluntly. Quiroz is a researcher at INIA and an expert in integrated pest management who does not hide his concern about the misuse of agrochemicals in crops.
Starting Monday and continuing until November 10, Chilean authorities and nine businessmen from the country will visit Morocco, Algeria, and Egypt in order to improve trade positions and investment opportunities between Chile and the African continent...
Russian consumer protection and phytosanitary control authorities have prevented the import of approximately 1,000 tonnes of goods affected by the embargo, according to a statement quoted by TASS and BTA.
Of all Spanish fruit and vegetable imports made between January and August 2015, which totalled 1.6 million tonnes, 57% came from EU countries, compared to 63% in the same period of 2010.
Growers of fresh produce, including table grapes, mangoes and cherries, are able to treat their product for airfreight within hours at a Brisbane facility, owned and operated by Steritech.
Spanish fresh fruit and vegetable exports to the EU between January and August 2015 grew by 10% compared to the same period of 2014, totalling 8.1 million tonnes and representing 93.5% of the total.
Despite Africa having 54 economies and a population of 1 billion, McDonald's has only expanded to four markets, South Africa, Egypt, Morocco and Mauritius.
The demand for Chinese cabbage in Ukraine has declined, as well as the prices. Current prices rarely exceed EUR 0.21-0.25 per kg against EUR 0.31-0.39 per kg in early November 2014.
According to Rosstat data, for the last week of October, the prices of fresh cucumbers in Russia increased by nearly a third. In St Petersburg in a month the price soared by 500-1000%.
