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Perfection Fresh Australia acquires banana business Pacific Coast Produce Marketing

Perfection Fresh Australia has purchased banana business Pacific Coast Produce Marketing (PCPM) as part of a move to excite Australian consumers with new banana offers. Chief…

Seeka welcomed to Ōpōtiki following amalgamation with OPAC

Seeka Limited was officially welcomed to Ōpōtiki to celebrate the amalgamation with Ōpōtiki Packing and Cool Storage (OPAC). Over 150 people attended the event at Seeka OPAC…

The Yield announces appointment of new CFO to support business growth

The Yield Technology Solutions Pty Ltd today announced the appointment of Patrick Maguire as Chief Financial Officer, who will play a key role in the company’s…

NZ horticulture industry welcomes government decision to bring in more workers from the Pacific

The New Zealand horticulture industry has welcomed the Government’s latest move to increase the flow of workers from the Pacific, in support of the Recognised…

Providing affordable freight to New Zealand

Pasifika Air wants to reignite pawpaw industry in the Cook Islands

Pasifika Air aims to reignite the pawpaw industry in the Cook Islands by providing affordable freight to New Zealand. Owner Mike Pero has spent the past few…

AU: Organic distributor warns national standard for sector is crucial

One of the nation’s largest organic distributors, which exports high-quality Australian products to global markets in more than 14 countries, has reiterated…

Export Congress to explore challenges and opportunities for Queensland horticulture

Queensland horticulture growers are invited to explore current trends, key challenges, and upcoming opportunities at the Queensland Horticulture Export…

Analyzing consumer preferences for gene edits in the fruit industry

University of Delaware researches gene editing solutions to combat citrus greening

Citrus greening is still a disease that is fiercely attacking the U.S. citrus industry’s bottom line. Spread by the invasive Asian citrus psyllid insect, the…

Miky Suarez comments on upcoming Mexican season

“Weirdest grape growing season I’ve seen in 33 years”

Mexico’s Sonora region is getting ready for the start of the grape season. “I’ve been involved with grapes for 33 years and this is the weirdest growing season I’ve seen,”…

Could Indian mangoes still make it to the U.S. market this season?

Indian mango growers and shippers have hope that they may still be able to ship mangoes to the U.S. market this season. Last year, Indian mangoes were absent from the U.S.…

Special Melons / Kiwifruit

CuteSolar

The first Spanish solar-greenhouse watermelons hit the European market

The European markets started to receive the first continental watermelons of the season at the end of April. This was possible because the fruit was grown in solar greenhouses…

Global Focus Machinery/Packaging

Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging

Bioactive paper coatings to replace plastic for packaging foods

The amount of plastic waste increases every year. Some of this waste is due to plastic packaging used to protect food. As part of the “BioActiveMaterials” project, researchers…

FOL race 1 is a critical issue for lettuce production in Norway

Lettuce is produced in Norway both in field and greenhouses. In Norway, greenhouse lettuce is one of the most important vegetables grown year-round. In winter 2018, wilting…

Egypt:

Hapag-Lloyd expects grape exports to increase by 10 to 15%

The grape season in Egypt is starting and looks extremely promising. Hapag-Lloyd expects grape exports to increase by 10-15% this year. In contrast to last…

A sustainable approach to integrated pest management

There is more scrutiny today than ever before regarding conventional herbicides, fungicides and insecticides, and regulations are tightening. “Complete…

New fruit chartered flight service between Lanzhou, China and Thailand launched

Recently, a chartered plane loaded with 17 tons of mangosteens, durians, rambutans and other tropical fruits from Thailand took off from Suvarnabhumi…

Pakistan exports record 460,000 tons of oranges in 2020-21

In Pakistan 2020-21, has exported record 460,000 tons of oranges, marking this as the highest ever volume during any season. The export season that ended in…

Market demand for organic ginger juice and quick-frozen vegetables is growing

Chinese organic ginger market is feeble

The period between May and July is the off-season for Chinese ginger. Add to this the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, and it is not surprising to see that overseas market…

Major supplier Hermann-Josef Jansen about the current onion market

"Massive drop in peeled product, sales of unpeeled onions at normal level"

At the beginning of the Corona crisis in March 2020, onions - like potatoes and carrots - were among the hotly sought-after hamster items on the shelf. In the meantime, the…

Price of imported cherries four times the price of domestic cherries

US cherries arrived on the Chinese market

The first US cherries of the season arrived in China by air freight in early May. US cherries arrive on the Chinese market around the same time as domestic cherries. Manager…

South Korea imports GI mangoes from Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh growers will export its Banganapalli and Suvarnarekha mango varieties - both with Geographical Indication tags - to South Korea. An APEDA…

Chile leads the southern hemisphere's organic blueberry exports

According to iQonsulting's 2020-2021 Blueberry Yearbook, Chile exported more than 20,000 tons of organic blueberries in the previous campaign, a record volume…

Dutch Wiscomex's been exporting onions, potatoes, garlic for more than a year

"With a super-efficient IT set-up, you can do a lot of solo trading"

There aren't many new businesses in the Dutch onion trade. But, Rinus Wisse has been running Wiscomex as an export office for more than a year now. Its slogan is 'Connecting…

Mustafa Kamcili (Morgenland Ltd & Co) on the situation at the Düsseldorf wholesale market

"Promotional offers within food retailing are increasingly causing problems for wholesale market traders"

The ongoing Corona crisis continues to make itself felt at the Düsseldorf wholesale market. "There are significantly fewer walk-in customers than usual, people are…

Evergreen Marine Corporation back in the black in Q1 2021

The Evergreen Marine Corporation achieved a US$ 567.13 million net profit for Q1 2021, reversing the US$ 24.24 million net loss in Q1 2020. According to…

Uganda: Minister asks Busoga farmers to switch from sugarcane to avocadoes

The Ugandan Ministry of Agriculture has started initiatives to shift the focus of farmers in the Busoga region away from sugarcane growing. The aim is for them…

USDA

USDA Fruit and Vegetable truck rate report - TUESDAY MAY 4, 2021

Still insufficient truck availability in California

The USDA has presented its Fruit and Vegetable truck rate report from Tuesday May 4th. It seems there are still shortages in California and the San Luis Valley of of Colorado.…

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REWE Group is testing a new 'Pick & Go' technology in Cologne

Edeka has increased its stake in Picnic

UK: Asda is trialling ‘secure boxes’ so your food can be delivered when you are outAsda is testing out secure “delivery boxes” outside customer homes so drivers can leave your…

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