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Damien Challet of JMT US:

“Our bins allow natural and flexible controlled atmosphere storage for a wide range of fresh produce”

Controlled atmosphere technology is vital to the agriculture industry and allows growers to store their produce for longer. But for smaller and medium-sized growers,…

Building cherry production in New Mexico

While New Mexico may not be the first market that comes to mind when you think of cherry production, it is in fact an old market that’s looking to rebuild its presence in the…

Ryan Lockman with North Bay Produce

“Blueberry consumption needs to increase at a higher rate”

It has been a challenging year for the domestic blueberry market. “The growing conditions in many of our regions were devastating,” says Ryan Lockman, VP of Sales and…

United Fresh LIVE! workshop

Retail panel discusses challenges and changes in international sourcing

This year’s United Fresh Trade show, due to its virtual platform and free registration, had more international visitors than ever before. Attendees came from over 75 countries…

Light supplies of melons to change soon

Supplies of melons in North America are slim to normal, though volume is coming on. At Paradise Produce Distributors in Lakeland, FL, Joel Silverman says there have been a…

New biobased mesh packaging for mini potatoes and baby sweet potatoes launched

With consumer demand rising for environmentally responsible and sustainable products, EarthFresh has updated their packaging with new biobased material. The EarthFresh 1.5 lb Organic…

Large impact on processed lemon market

30% decrease in Argentina lemon production estimated for this year

The uncertainty surrounding the development of the world´s coronavirus pandemic, and the good weather conditions during the second half of March, encouraged Argentine growers…

Sensitech announces SensiWatch™

New platform introduced for end-to-end real-time in-transit visibility

To celebrate it's 30th anniversary, Sensitech announced a new end-to-end, real-time in-transit visibility solution – the SensiWatch™ Platform. The SensiWatch…

Honduras

Chiquita ends its operations in Puerto Cortes

On June 30, Chiquita Brands, the transnational banana company, will end its shipping operations in Puerto Cortes, Honduras, to move its activity to Puerto…

New Avo Effect episode looks at impact of the avocado on California

West Pak Avocado, a California-based grower, packer, and distributor of premium avocados, just released their latest Avo Effect campaign video, Golden State of Avocados. The…

Special Asia

"Chinese companies keep an eye on automated selection machine with great price quality ratio"

Chinese companies are paying increasingly careful attention to automated selection machines for the fruit industry because the labor cost continues to rise every year.…

Global Focus Logistics / cooling

Australia: Cold food chain waste costing $3.8 billion

A report on the causes of food waste in Australia has attributed $3.8 billion in wasted food to “breaks and deficiencies in the cold food chain.” Consultants…

Retail

Giant: First of its kind initiative for a grocer

Launch of Voilà by Sobeys in the Greater Toronto Area

Raley's joins other U.S. retailers going darkThe pandemic has served as high-octane fuel for e-commerce, forcing food retailers to respond in various ways, including via…

Mr.siwabud Veerapaisarn

Global container lines reinstate some Asia-US capacity

Global container lines are reinstating some of the capacity they cancelled in the last few months on the Asia-North America West Coast trade lane, although it’s not a sign of…

Fabio Formaggio

'And their bestselling product is bananas'

Walmart is the largest grocer in the US

Vice.com did a report on Walmart, stating: “You may associate the world’s largest retailer with toys and tires and the occasional leather thong, but Walmart is…

Raspberries and blackberries

Mexican municipality of Domingo Arenas sent its first shipment of berries to the US

The first shipment of berries produced in the municipality of Domingo Arenas, in the state of Puebla, has already been sent to the United States. The shipment…

Fatih Polat

Nigeria: Taraba to export cucumber to Europe and US

The Taraba State Investment and Property Development Ltd. said it had concluded arrangements to start exporting cucumber to Europe and the United States.…

Panudda Supnaphaphan

Kenya: Over 5,000 farmers in Rombo benefit from Banana Project

Approximately 5,000 small-scale banana farmers in Rombo District, Kilimanjaro Region have benefited from Banana Agronomy Project, a vital four years initiative…

Egypt prepares for upcoming sweet potato season

“Acreage of Egyptian sweet potato has increased by 30 percent this season”

The acreage for Egyptian sweet potatoes increases just about every year, and this year is no different. Compared to the previous season, the country has seen an increase in…

Growers can preview varieties before making a commercial commitment

Fall Creek South Africa welcomes blueberry orders for delivery by end 2020

Since the announcement a year ago that Fall Creek was establishing a blueberry nursery in South Africa, the company has been very busy. “During the past 18 months a small and…

New South African operating facility for Futura Sa Plasmatec

Futura SA and Plasmatec have recently moved their operating facility to Units Unit 7, 8 and 9 Watershed Park Square Street in Stikland, Cape Town, South Africa. "Plasmatec Engineering…

India pomegranate arils in demand, but logistics still challenging

“The airlines are still reeling under pressure”

The new harvest of pomegranates in India is underway, and the fruits are still having a hard time being exported from the country by air. Although weather has been pretty good…

Punjab Agriculture Minister Malik Nauman Ahmed Langrial

Pakistan: Promotion of high value agriculture is top priority

Punjab Agriculture Minister Malik Nauman Ahmed Langrial has said that various steps were being taken to promote high value agriculture in the province.…

Deborah Benbrook

Goa, India

Shortage of tourists forces drug dealers to sell vegetables for a living

Drug dealers living in Goa have taken to odd jobs to make a living during the coronavirus outbreak. Several people were rendered jobless due to the coronavirus…

Volodymyr Dvornyk

Across all its branches in Saudi Arabia

LuLu Hypermarket celebrates annual mango festival

LuLu Hypermarket is hosting its annual mango festival, “Mango World,” with 50 varieties of the fruit from different countries on show. The hypermarket has…

From the field directly to the table:

Chinese farmers sell their products via livestream

30-year-old Huang Sixiu was born and raised in the remote village of Pingqiao in Pu'an, a poor district in the Qianxinan Autonomous District of Bouyei and Miao…

Alla Aramyan

India: Himachal likely to produce 30 million boxes of apples

Himachal Pradesh, India’s prominent fruit basket, is likely to produce 30 million boxes of apples this season and 68,000 trucks are required for their…

S.Mile LLC launches food cleaning agent Sanaq

"You don't need chemicals to clean fresh food products"

According to estimates of the global incidence of foodborne diseases, over 23 million people in Europe fall ill each year as a result of eating contaminated food. For some…

Spain

The University of Cordoba develops a citrus harvester

The Rural Mechanization and Technology group at the University of Cordoba is working on the design of citrus harvesters that allow harvesting to be mechanized in intensive…

New X-ray inspection system for beverages, liquids and solid foods

Mekitec Group, a global manufacturer of food quality control systems based on X-ray technology, announces the launch of a completely new X-ray inspection system, Sidemekitm,…

Spanish scientists are working to develop a norovirus detection kit for berries

According to the EU Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF), a total of 66 norovirus alerts have been reported since January 2019. It should be noted that…

Paycargo

PayCargo Capital offers credit for fresh produce supply chains

PayCargo Capital, a sister company of the global online payment platform PayCargo, is offering businesses in the fresh produce supply chain credit of $50,000…

Optimising water is key value driver for WA Carpenters Project

Tech will give Alterra’s avocado farm an edge

Agricultural land developer Alterra is setting up its first avocado site using technology that represents best -rather than common- practice in a bid to enhance both…

Fresh produce industry suffers more primary production losses than in post-harvest

A leading international audit and consulting firms, Ernst & Young has found that there is more wastage in Australia's fresh produce primary production, than in the subsequent…

Average weekly wholesale prices of fruit and veg & bananas

Bananas from Colombia at £0.74

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…

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