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Audee Rios Canobbio of Coliman on Mexican bananas:

“Our plan is to explore the organic banana market in China”

Bananas produced in Mexico are grown all year round, though the first quarter of the year usually sees lower productions than the other quarters. “To ensure a steady supply…

Lemon plum imports from Chile begin

Supplies of lemon plums from Chile will arrive this week for their February window of availability. “It’s a very unique item but we’ve found it has an interesting cachet with…

New packaging for food service apple program catches eyes

Newly redesigned packaging for a food service apple program is making its mark with more than just consumers. “Our goal for the package redesign was to develop packaging that…

New sweet seedless mini peppers hit stores with good demand

A new veggie debuting in the produce section is showing success. Taste Buddies® sweet and naturally seedless mini peppers are grown year-round in the Mexican sun. These bite size,…

Organics Unlimited welcomes new logistics and operations assistant

Organics Unlimited, San Diego-based grower and distributor of organic tropical fruit, recently added Jose Miguel Naranjo to the company as its logistics and…

New video explores the effect avocados have on retail and foodservice

West Pak Avocado, a California-based grower, packer, and distributor of avocados, released a new video, Avocado Blitz. The second release for the company's Avo…

30% of the stored Chilean cherries could be lost due to the coronavirus outbreak

The coronavirus outbreak in China, which has already affected more than 6,000 people in that country, is having repercussions in the Chilean export cherry market, as this…

APHIS determines Unshu oranges can be safely imported from Japan into the US

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is advising the public that we are revising our requirements for the…

1 in 3 Americans say they were never educated on healthy eating habits

Del Monte Foods, Inc. released the 2020 State of Healthy Eating in America Study, revealing that one in three Americans confess they were never taught about…

Chef Vincent Gilliard creates unique recipe using SnapDragon apples

When rising talent, Chef Vincent Gilliard, created the recipe that propelled him to becoming a finalist out of 2,400 other young Chefs across the country, he wanted to feature…

Special Fruit Logistica

Start-up introducing a revolutionary automatic QC and data analytics platform

Imagine being able to do the countless quality checks needed within the fruit and vegetable supply chain automatically? This is precisely what an Israeli start-up has…

Ecuador to launch 'Premium and sustainable' brand

Fruit Logistica's partner country will bring its largest and most diverse delegation yet, featuring senior government dignitaries and 38 produce grower-exporters. Ecuador's…

Global Focus Organics

FreshPlaza Organics Global Focus

Our February Global Focus is all about organics. Attempts to reduce the price gap between organic and conventional products to make organic produce more accessible to the…

Retail

Amazon’s data prowess and customer knowledge will drive its growth in retail grocery

Amazon and Walmart: SNAP pilot expansion

US: Retailers turn to in-store tech to bring shoppers to their storesSeveral startup companies and established tech vendors showed how they can assist retailers in keeping…

Chinese companies find foreign employees to participate instead

Fruit Logistica still confident about event, extra measures to be taken

This Wednesday the Fruit Logistica in Berlin will kick off. Last week we had an update that about 30% of the Chinese companies would not attend but this number…

NASA will try and grow chillies from New Mexico in space

As part of the effort to develop crops to support deep space exploration, NASA will be growing New Mexico chile in the International Space Station in 2020.…

The decrease in top fruit stocked in Europe and the US favors Argentine exports

The low levels of top fruit stocks in the northern hemisphere improve the prospects for Argentine apple and pear exports, whose season has just begun in the Valley of Rio…

Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada

Niagara growers applaud federal marketing campaign announcement

Niagara-on-the-Lake peach farmer Dylan Wiens readily admits he’s not fully in the loop on all the growing programs going on in his own province, let alone the…

University of Maine

New potato varieties have lower levels of probable carcinogen

According to professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition Mary Ellen Camire, French fries made with the new potato varieties AF4296‐3 and Easton have much…

Super Bowl

Mexican avocado exports break records in January 2020

The Association of Avocado Producers, Packers, and Exporters of Mexico (APEAM) reported that the country had achieved a new record in the export of avocados to…

Luc Hellebuyck tweet

"High banana prices in last quarter of 2019"

Yesterday, Luc Hellebuyck [@Bananas4All], former Eucofel Aisbl CEO tweeted: .@EUAgri ACP #Banana prices 2019 sky low and volatile. He also gave out the graph on EU Banana prices…

Cuba exports Guantanamo limes for the first time

The Cuban province of Guantanamo has decided to bet on the production of Persian lime due to its export potential. This lime, also known as Tahiti lime, is a…

Dutch company, Hars & Hagebauer, launches new website, www.theavocadotrader.com

"In the last year, we have grown to become a meeting point for buyers and sellers"

"We are not actually doing anything different from what we have always been doing," says Henk van der Meij of Hars & Hagebauer. This is in connection with this…

Thomas Besnard, ABCD de l’Exotique:

“Banana imports: an expensive puzzle”

The beginning of the year has been marked by an increase in contract prices for all banana players, large and small. In fact, all shipping companies have raised their prices…

Guillermo Soler, manager of ORC Spain:

"The consumption of Orri mandarins should not be slowed down by high prices"

"Due to the lower production of citrus fruits, Orri mandarins are arriving earlier. Because of this, the prospect is that sales will also come to an end early. The fruit's…

Jan Lode van den Heuvel, VDH Concept

"SQ-Doy Paper is unique, customizable and recyclable "

Sustainability, less plastic and recycling are high on the agenda among fruit and vegetable companies these. “However, sustainability has never been as big an issue as it is…

Two major innovations for ecofriendly exotic fruit and vegetable packaging

According to an Ellen MacArthur Foundation study, «the ocean is expected to contain 1 tonne of plastic for every 3 tonnes of fish by 2025, and by 2050, more plastics than fish…

A&P Service offers banding machines to customers near and far

"Possibilities of our sustainable packaging solution are inexhaustible"

Sustainable packaging alternatives made of cardboard and paper are rapidly gaining in importance, and not just within the German trade. Peter Schiffmann - a long-time machine…

Special apple named EOS

British Apple renamed to commemorate Brexit Day

31st January 2020 was a momentous day for Britain and one that will go down in history. After nearly 50 years of membership and four years since the vote to Brexit was taken,…

Domingo Llamas, of Hoyamar: "We must not lose sight of Morocco; it could displace us"

Lettuce prices remain high and there is enough broccoli to meet the demand

Since the start of the autumn and winter vegetable campaign in the Region of Murcia, the weather has been really unstable. After the sudden temperature drops with occasional…

New Herbox for temperature control during transit

Afrex South Africa enlarges their edible flower & packaging offering

Afrex South Africa, exporter of more than 80 varieties of unique and niche baby vegetables, edible flowers and leaves as well as fresh cut herbs, will be exhibiting their…

Oscar van Turenhout, 4Fruit Company:

"Good prospects for the season of South African pears"

The first South African pears will arrive on Monday 3 February at 4Fruit Company in Ridderkerk, The Netherlands. "We start with Williams Bon Chrétien, followed by Abate Fetel,…

Dutch ABC Fresh offers growing range of overseas product

“We look forward to the Indian grape season with confidence”

The overseas grape market is currently in a transitional phase. There is a shortage of supply of South African white grapes at the moment. The opposite is true for red grapes.…

AU: Cherry exports complete, slow start to plum exports to China

Australian exporter Antico International has finished with its Tasmanian cherry export and is now preparing for the plum and table grape exports. “Most of the cherries were…

Australian kiwi growers to help pay for $18 mln Queensland fruit fly response

Kiwifruit growers will fork out around a million dollars toward a year-long operation to eradicate the Queensland fruit fly. An $18 million biosecurity…

Butternut pumpkins: Beauty below the blemishes

The development of “brown etch” on a butternut pumpkin relegates it to pig food or landfill. But, just as beauty can be skin deep, so are those blotches and blemishes – the…

Western Australia: Bananas bigger than ever because of ideal growing conditions

Carnarvon banana growers in Western Australia are enjoying their best ever summer harvest because of perfect growing conditions. But while many bananas have grown to double…

Television show MasterChef embraces vertical farming

Not just in Sweden but also in Italy the television producers of the popular program MasterChef embrace vertical farming. The Italian version of the television show will…

Paper packaging without sealing

Sustainability is no longer a trend but the new norm. JASA also finds it essential to contribute to reducing plastic and focuses on using paper packaging. Paper-Vento®, Semoulin…

South African Table Grape Industry – Third Crop Estimate for 2019/2020 season

Hex River 2m cartons down, other region's volumes up

The South African Table Grape Industry (SATI) released the 3rd Crop Estimate* for the 2019/2020 season with an estimate of between 59,6 million and 64,7 million cartons (4,5…

Paul Koppert, Koppert Machines:

"Lettuce-packing line delivered at Bowery Farming"

"At Bowery Farming, we delivered three packaging lines at the end of last year. The following three lines are in production and will be delivered this spring", says Paul…

Snack'nBox now suitable for automatic processing

"Convenience, accurate product information and recyclable materials. The refined Snack’nBox meets the needs of today's customer," says Bordex Packaging. "The packaging for…

London Gateway secures new service to open up more trading opportunities with India

A new service for DP World operating from London Gateway will open up more trading opportunities with India.DP World London Gateway welcomed the new IEX service, Al Rawdah, on…

The top 10 orange-producing countries

This video shows the top 10 largest orange-producing countries worldwide in the period between 1961 and 2017. Until 1979, the US dominated orange production. From that moment…

Banana problem Russia-Ecuador should be remedied soon

According to Alexander Shchetinin, head of the Latin American department at Russia’s Foreign Ministry, Russia is counting on the resolution of problems related to the quality…

Combine-a-flag

Some creative flag waving.

FreshPlaza Funny

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