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General Packhouse Manager - Beja, Portugal

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Customers around the world ask for the highest quality dates for Ramadan

“Ramadan is our biggest date season. Before sunrise when the fast begins and as soon as the fast breaks after sundown, Muslims want to eat the best dates,” says David Baxter…

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Banana industry at an inflection point

2022 could be a bit of a time of reckoning for the banana industry. “We’re facing several situations right now,” says Hugo Castro of GinaFruit. And this starts with logistics…

Demand and pricing up for Yuca

Supplies of imported Yuca are “hit or miss” as the end of the year gets closer. “But we’re now starting to get good volumes from Costa Rica,” says Rubens Zylberkan of A&B…

New York Produce Show

Avocado exporter showcases regional supply model

House of Avocado (La Casa del Aguacate) will showcase its full line of products and regional supply model at the New York Produce Show December 15th in booth 569. “We look…

Strong forecast of winter strawberries

California Giant Berry Farms, a producer of fresh, sustainable berries, has forecast a strong winter strawberry crop, led by its Florida and Mexico growing regions. "The…

Sun World expands footprint in Southern Hemisphere

Sun World International, LLC announced it has added several marketers to its licensee lineup in the Southern Hemisphere. These include two newly licensed…

Farm Credit Canada supports PEI potato producers impacted by temporary export ban

Farm Credit Canada (FCC) is offering support to customers in Prince Edward Island who could be facing production or cash flow challenges as a result of the…

Village Farms promotes Steve Poklemba

Village Farms Greenhouse Grown is pleased announce the promotion of Steve Poklemba, currently Director of National Sales to his new role as Director of Global Supply Chain…

United States

December apple tracker reports storage levels down compared to 2020

The USApple Tracker reports that according to the survey, the total number of apples in storage on December 1, 2021 was 144.4 million bushels, 1.6 percent less…

Taylor Farms purchases Curation Foods’ fresh packaged salads and vegetables business

Landec Corporation, a diversified health and wellness company focused on its growing Lifecore Biomedical business – a fully integrated contract development and…

Special Year Overview

Year Overview: May

The month of May would make it clear there was not going to be a Fruit Logistica in 2021. Instead the new edition would be held in February 2022, which we now know has been…

Global Focus Exotic/Tropical Fruit

CO2 supply problems trigger shortage of Spanish persimmons

The supply of Spanish persimmons may be compromised by the shortage of a fundamental component for the elimination of the fruit's astringency: CO2 gas. This problem adds to…

Retail

Dreamstime

Instacart President Carolyn Everson to step down

First of its kind technology at Walmart Canada's distribution centre in Cornwall, Ontario

Uber Eats makes food delivery to outer spaceUber Technologies, Inc. announced their 1st-ever food delivery to outer space. Expanding the global company's footprint beyond…

SweetPotato Commission celebrates “Eat Sweet Restaurant Week”

Last month, the North Carolina SweetPotato Commission (NCSPC) celebrated its long-awaited Eat Sweet Restaurant Week where it invited chefs across the state to…

California intermodal tracker suing Hapag-Lloyd for detention

A California company has accused Hapag-Lloyd of Germany of forcing truck companies to store empty freezer containers without payment. According to a complaint…

Artichoke grower/marketer to showcase product line extension at NYPS

Ocean Mist Farms, a grower and marketer of fresh artichokes in the U.S., will showcase its conventional & organic commodity lines and feature the Season & Steam product line…

Packaging company invests in sustainable water treatment facility in Colombia

Smurfit Kappa, a paper-based packaging production company, has completed a two-phase upgrade of its facilities at the Barranquilla Paper Mill in Colombia. The 7.5 million USD…

A new frozen mango processing plant opens in Piura

Mango is synonymous with social and economic development for the 118 families that make up the Apromalpi Organic Producers Cooperative, an agrarian organization in the…

American Farm Bureau Federation courts guestworkers from South Africa

Ag labor must be exempt from travel restrictions

The American Farm Bureau Federation, along with more than 60 other agriculture groups, sent a letter to the Biden administration requesting that agricultural…

Fiji launches new hybrid coconut variety

This week, an early fruit-bearing coconut variety was presented by the Fijian Ministry of Agriculture; the newly-released Mua hybrid coconut variety was…

"It's a crispy and refreshing tropical fruit. It is great on a summers day and for trying to cool down."

A "frenzy" of demand for the fast emerging and popular Wax Jambu in Australia

An Australian fresh produce trading company says the quality of this year's crop of Wax Jambu is the best he has ever seen grown commercially in this country. Produce Art,…

Julien Cremer, Indiana Import:

Our chocolate oranges from Spain are more and more popular”

There is an usual orange among the fruit and vegetables on the MIN market of Perpignan. The chocolate orange has a brown color, as its name indicates, and it does not go…

Manuel Scheuring (Volmary Ltd) on expanding sweet potato program

"Fast-growing and high-yielding sweet potato varieties are enriching regional agriculture"

The sweet potato has caught up rapidly in Northwest European cultivation in recent years. Breeders have also recognized the potential of this root vegetable, which is why more…

DG agri dashboard - citrus fruit

EU citrus imports relatively stable for 2020/2021 season

For the 2020/2021 season, the imports of oranges into the EU dropped slightly compared to the previous season, as did grapefruit imports. Small citrus and lemon import numbers…

SanLucar and SaniFruit go for zero-waste solutions in the agricultural sector

The companies SanLucar and Sanifruit have signed a cooperation to develop solutions sustainably extending the shelf life of fruit while respecting the health of people and…

EU agricultural outlook 2021-31:

Processed apples – spotlight on main producing countries

By 2031, the production of processed apples is projected to increase in France, Italy and Poland, ranging from 0.5% to 1.2% per year. In Hungary, the production is projected…

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Gero Ziemer from the Guillin Group:

"To prevent spoilage and waste, there's no getting around packaging"

Delivery bottlenecks and delays will probably continue to plague some companies in the fruit and vegetable sector until the middle of next year. However, the…

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MSC Group and Mercy Ships celebrate 10 years of partnership

End-to-end support, from container shipping to logistics, fundraising and maritime expertise, have maximised hospital ships’ life-changing impact for thousands…

Average weekly wholesale prices of fruit and veg & bananas

Bananas from Belize come in at £0.55

This series gives the average wholesale prices of bananas by country of origin. The prices are national averages of the most usual prices charged for bananas at wholesale…

Ports sector volumes bounce back but are increasingly shaped by decarbonisation

UK port volumes bounce back

After experiencing pandemic–driven challenges through 2020 and early 2021 UK port freight volumes are forecast to bounce back in the period to 2026. But underlying structural changes…

China issues plan to strengthen cold chain logistics against COVID risks

This weekend, China's State Council, issued a development plan for the cold-chain logistics sector as part of the country's 14th Five-Year-Plan, elevating the…

Construction to start within twelve months

DP World and Democratic Republic of the Congo sign final agreement to develop Banana Port

DP World and the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have signed the Collaboration Agreement for the development of the deep-sea port at…

Government submits amendments to VAT law - would exempt Suez Canal

Egypt announces tax exemptions to boost economic growth

The Egyptian government has announced a set of tax exemptions aiming to support the industrial sector and boost economic growth. Under the directives of…

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