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Teamleider Veredeling - Rijsenhout

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Fruit industry tycoons team up

Joy Wing Mau and Dole establish strategic cooperation

Dole, one of the largest fruit and processed fruit product companies in the world, and the Joy Wing Mau Corporation Limited (Joy Wing Mau), one of China’s leading fruit…

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Teamleider Veredeling - Rijsenhout

FDA

Indian and Chinese shipments refused entry as well

Taiwan: US avocados and grapefruits seized at border due to contaminants

Several large shipments of avocados, grapefruit and apples from the US were recently seized at Taiwan's border after being found to contain excessive levels of pesticides and…

New Zealand export industries fear extended Chinese audits

New Zealand export industries are nervous as new safety audits by Chinese authorities seem to stretch from the seafood industry to the apple industry. Pipfruit…

Cambodian mangoes get official approval for export to China

Cambodian mangoes stemming from a small group of approved packaging factories have been cleared for export to China. This is the result of recent improvements…

Malaysia

Johor inspectors seize nearly 28 tons of mislabeled carrots

The Malaysian Quarantine and Inspection Services Department (Maqis) has seized about 27.9 tons of carrots worth RM75,800 (€15.600) at the Tanjung Pelepas Port.…

Exporters are restless as Australian grapes find their way into the Chinese market obstructed

The Daily Telegraph reported on the 23rd of April that Australian vineyard owners were uneasy because customs clearances of Australian grapes in Hong Kong have…

COSCO SHIPPING Ports announces 2021 First Quarter Results

Cosco Shipping Ports Limited, the world’s leading ports operator, today announced the first quarter results of the Company and its subsidiaries for the 3…

Second Trade, Investment and Industry Dialogue

Philippines restated call for Australia to allow banana exports

The Philippines has restated its request for Australia to grant market access for fresh Cavendish bananas and to lift the anti-dumping measure imposed on the…

SPA

Other Middle Eastern nations also increase monitoring of Lebanon produce

Lebanese growers and traders despair as Saudi Arabia bans their goods

Lebanese farmers are trying to find new buyers for their goods, 48 hours after a Saudi ban on fruit and vegetable imports from the country sent prices into a spin. At the…

EastFruit

Some fear the fruit will disappear

Bananas becoming more expensive everywhere

The global market for bananas has experienced a number of shocks: some media outlets are even musing on an imminent complete disappearance of the fruit. Also, banana prices…

Special South Africa

Stefan du Plessis – Elandsrivier Boerdery, Lohan Marais – Icon Fruit

Cape Fire™ pears maintain their unique selling point in a difficult colour year

Notwithstanding a difficult colour year, the late blush pear Cape Fire™, harvested after Forelle, has maintained its steadfast solid colour and demonstrating its reliability,…

Global Focus Machinery/Packaging

Matthias Kinzel, Strauss Verpackungsmaschinen Ltd:

"New banding machine increases capacity for rhubarb"

Even with tried-and-tested processes, there sometimes are still opportunities for innovation. And just because something works, doesn't mean you have to rest on your laurels.…

"We will see a network effect emerge as more buyers and sellers use the platform"

Australian company set to launch digital marketplace to help modernise fruit and vegetable sales

Australian Agtech company, Optomni has today announced the upcoming launch of a new innovative digital marketplace for fresh produce, allowing buyers and sellers to trade in…

Ontario growers positive following recent temperature drop

Ontario growers are breathing a sigh of relief following last week’s drop in temperatures and wet snow. On apples, Cathy McKay, the Ontario Apple Growers chair and an apple…

Rolf Weber (Global Producers) on the approaching conclusion of the Costa Rican campaign

"Melon season economic and financial success despite higher costs"

This year's melon season in Costa Rica will end on schedule with seedless watermelons and several varieties of mini watermelons in week 19. This will be followed by the last…

Awaiting for the Italian Ministry's approval for the launch of the parasitoid

Drosophila suzukii, it's time to be alert

As early cherry varieties from North to South Italy start to ripen, it is time to watch out for the Drosophila suzukii fly. In the past years, the damages have been varied,…

Spanish stone fruit season takes off at Wilko Fruit

"Our Dutch clients love nectarines, non-locals prefer peaches"

The Spanish stone fruit season had already started a fortnight ago at WilkoFruit. Then this Dutch fruit wholesaler got its first greenhouse cherries. "We buy our cherries from…

Gold Nugget mandarins see inconsistent demand

Supplies of California Gold Nugget mandarins are still plentiful. “The fruit is great quality this year. It’s eating really well and there’s nice sizing, too. It’s a good…

For the fresh food sector

Manufacturing experts and IloT technology leaders join forces to deliver end-to-end traceability

Persequor, iTrazo and Facteon have brought together a global track and trace software product, an Australasian fresh produce expert, and a New Zealand-based…

New GGN Label - A Cross-Category Consumer Label to Make Responsible Farming Visible

GLOBALG.A.P. c/o FoodPLUS GmbH launched its consumer-facing initiative, the GGN label, during an online event on 27 April. International stakeholders from the…

Earlier end of season at the beginning of April for Ambrosia™ apples

“In this 2020-21 season, sales of Ambrosia™ apples were very dynamic both in Spain and Italy right from the beginning,” remembers Marco Rivoira of the homonymous Piedmontese…

Monash University

Monash University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Robotic harvester plucks an apple every 7 seconds

In order to relieve some of the stressors caused by the labor shortage in the Australian fruit picking industry, researchers have cooked up a creative partial solution to this…

University of Bern research and innovation project

Digital advisory services for African and Asian smallholder families

A University of Bern research and innovation project is intended to strengthen sustainable farming methods among smallholder families in Africa and Asia. This…

Vegetable compound might reduce diabetes-related kidney damage

New research conducted suggests a compound that gives some cruciferous vegetables their pungent taste could help to reverse diabetes-associated kidney…

Colombia has kept the Fusarium plague contained since its detection in 2019 in La Guajira

The Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. Cubense Tropical Race 4 fungus, a disease for which there is no cure yet and that has already affected some twenty countries,…

Austria, a potential market for Peruvian ginger

The Minister Counselor of the Peruvian Embassy in Austria, Marcela Andia, stated that Austria was a potential market for Peruvian ginger. Andia stated this in…

At least 1,000 lost this year already

Thousands of containers are falling off ships every year

In recent months, cargo worth tens of millions of dollars has fallen off ships as the industry suffers the sharpest surge in lost containers for seven years.…

World’s best food photographs served up

A tender and subtly powerful image for our times, Taste, by Chinese photographer Li Huaifeng, has won the overall prize of Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2021, the…

Retail

Dreamstime

Delhaize is becoming "Belhaize"

Waitrose will expand its Deliveroo service

Russia: Lenta sees sales and gross margin up in Q1 2021Russian retailer Lenta has reported a 2.4% year-on-year growth in gross profit to RUB23.4bln (€260mln) in the first…

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