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OVERVIEW GLOBAL KAKI MARKET

In September / October, the kaki harvest started again in the Northern Hemisphere. In recent days, the demand has been increasing, so traders have been obtaining good prices…

Melons, rambutan and papaya

Hurricane Iota causes shipping delays for produce out of Guatemala and Honduras

This week, Central America faced another hurricane only two weeks after Hurricane Eta raged through the region. Making landfall on Monday evening in Nicaragua, Hurricane Iota…

Record harvest for California walnuts have shippers mulling options

California walnuts are having a record harvest year. “It’s still too early to give a total crop size. But the objective estimate that came out this year at the beginning of…

Brussels sprouts movement missing foodservice sales

Movement of Brussels sprouts are feeling the lack of foodservice business. “The market as a whole is slightly oversupplied. But mostly because the foodservice industry is…

Peter Quiring receives OPMA’s Cory Clack-Streef Produce Person of the Year Award

Nature Fresh Farms announced that their President and Founder, Peter Quiring, is the recipient of the OPMA’s Cory Clack-Streef Produce Person of the Year Award. According to OPMA’s website…

Mission Jumbos

Avocado producer and distributor launches Jumbo avocados

Mission Produce, Inc., who source, produce, and distribute fresh avocados, announced the launch of Mission Jumbos, a pack full of larger, shareable avocados that offer more to…

Industry connections, reimagined

CPMA announces first ever Fresh Week 2021: April 12-16

The Canadian Produce Marketing Association is moving forward in 2021 to connect members and build business opportunities, even within these unique times.…

New York state's apple industry votes to continue $2 million marketing program

The New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets (AGM) today announced that the State’s apple industry has voted in support of continuing the…

EU tariffs on US sweet potatoes increase 25%

The European Union brought in $4 billion of tariffs earlier this month in retaliation for US subsidies for Boeing, the move was approved by the World Trade Organisation. The…

Homeless garden project in Santa Cruz, CA

Awe Sum Organics making a difference in both the local and global community

Awe Sum Organics has made a leadership pledge to the Homeless Garden Project’s new permanent home and expanded farm located in the hills just above the city of Santa Cruz in…

Special Wholesale markets

Seeka on the impact of the coronavirus on New Zealand’s produce wholesale environment

“Avocado demand dropped so low that we stopped picking in the orchards”

Although Covid-19 has remained relatively under control in New Zealand, the pandemic has had an effect on the fresh produce business in this region. Some categories have…

Global focus citrus

Tim Wehmeyer (Fruchtimport Schmidt) on exclusive citrus brand Numen Nature

"Untreated Spanish leaf clementines can be sold well into February"

The winter season has begun and thus the supply of European citrus fruit is increasing rapidly. In addition to the 'standard' oranges, clementines and lemons, untreated citrus…

Retail

Schnuck Markets: Supplier diversity initiative

BJ's: "Remarkable" Q3 performance

Amazon lays off staff at Prime Air drone projectAmazon.com Inc said it had laid off dozens of staff working on the e-commerce giant’s delivery drone project as part of a…

Extend shelf life of perishables

EverFresh® active controlled-atmosphere system now offers CO2 injection option

Carrier Transicold’s EverFresh® active controlled-atmosphere system for refrigerated containers now offers a new carbon dioxide (CO2) injection option to better preserve…

Organic potatoes and onions ready for the holidays

With a quality crop of organic potatoes and onions ready for market, Morning Kiss Organic brings a healthy aspect to this year's much-needed comfort cooking. As the pandemic…

United Fresh Start Foundation launches the Season of Giving Back

The United Fresh Start Foundation has launched the Season of Giving Back, a month-long celebration recognizing the charitable efforts of the produce industry…

McCartney Produce joins FreshEdge

McCartney Produce (“McCartney”), a distributor of fresh produce and specialty food products, joined FreshEdge, a family of produce and specialty food…

Can mangoes reduce wrinkles?

Mangoes, like other orange fruits and vegetables, are rich in beta-carotene and provide antioxidants that may delay cell damage. A new study from researchers at the University of…

Organto announces record third quarter results

Organto an integrated provider of organic and value-added organic fruits and vegetables today announced financial results for the third quarter ended September…

Covid-19: 50% of South Africa’s watermelon market gone as tourism suffers

Game farmers and hunting operators turn their hand to watermelons

Covid-19 has hit the watermelon market hard. Where usually a holiday resort like Sun City in South Africa’s Northwest Province would be taking thousands of watermelons every…

Global Plant Genetics

Improved raspberry varieties for Moroccan and Tunisian producers

Global Plant Genetics has announced that it recently extended its raspberry representation contract with James Hutton Ltd. This means that the company is now able to…

Argentina

INTA develops nine varieties of seedless table grapes

The National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) has developed nine varieties of seedless table grapes. These varieties have already been registered in…

"There is a very interesting projection in demand"

The cherry harvest is Argentina's Rio Negro begins with optimism

The cherry-producing companies of the Middle Valley have already started harvesting and packing the fruit. Facundo Fernandez, the Secretary of Rio Negro's…

Bert Westera, Sweet Fruits S.A.:

"Peruvian mangos cannot be matched in terms of colour but Brazilian still taste the best"

The Brazilian mango season is currently in full swing. "The start of the season was difficult, but the market has now improved," says Bert Westera of Sweet Fruits S.A. from…

TropiFoods developing the cassava and sweet potato sectors in Latin America

"We’ve created new opportunities for the 300 farmers we work with"

‘Yuca’, or cassava, may not yet be at the top of every European consumer’s shopping list. However, Costa Rican producer TropiFoods is excited to see this star product gaining…

Coen Swager, TB&S, :

"After Violetti, our purple pointed cabbage, we now have a savoy pointed cabbage"

A few years ago, TB&S introduced Violetti. This purple pointed cabbage was an innovative vegetable. Now, this Dutch vegetable company has a new pointed cabbage in the…

Juan González, of Greenline Gate:

"Organic blueberries are going to compete strongly with the conventional"

The production of blueberries, which play a big role in the European organic berry market, is developing in the southern hemisphere. Latin America stands out as an important…

OrriApp implements new functionalities

Orri Running Committee extends control of its mandarins to all links in the value chain

OrriApp, the first mobile application designed to identify plots that are exploiting protected varieties of citrus fruits without proper authorization, specifically the ORRI…

'Why you should eat a banana every day'

All of us are aware of the common English proverb “An apple a day keeps the doctor away”. But one question that this popular saying raises is that is it the…

Inspectors from Brazil visit Spanish farms as part of the opening protocol

Spanish plums, grapes and blueberries, increasingly closer to the Brazilian market

A delegation of Brazilian inspectors has visited plum farms in the Spanish region of Extremadura, table grape growers in Alicante and blueberry plantations in…

Total Produce Ireland achieves Origin Green Gold Accreditation in inaugural year

Total Produce Ireland has today been awarded the prestigious Origin Green Gold standard in an online ceremony hosted in Dublin. Origin Green is the world’s only national food…

New Israeli persimmon orchards in Campania

In a globalized market where there is increasing competition between countries, the produce needs to stand out in order to be competitive - the same rules apply to persimmons.…

"Can we compete if this keeps going like this?"

Growers notice concerning workforce trends amid Australian horticulture labour shortage

A table grape grower in Victoria says the COVID-19 pandemic has created a generation of "job hoppers" who are pushing for better conditions and pay, which is further…

New Australia-NZ Export Plan to bear fruit

The new agreement with New Zealand opens up horticultural market access opportunities for Australian fruit and vegetable producers.The plan will help reduce…

Pacific Islanders in on-farm quarantine trial under review before more arrivals

Emerald grape farm manager Douw Van Der Merwe said the business would have lost millions of dollars in rotten fruit if it had not been able to secure…

Celebrating three years of Sortex FA PolarVision

Since its launch in 2017, Bühler’s Sortex FA PolarVision range, which features the highest capacity optical sorter in the individually quick frozen (IQF) fruit and vegetables…

Mushroom cultivation produces three times its weight in waste. It’s now being turned into burgers and fertiliser

Cultivating mushrooms produces a lot of waste. For every kilogram of mushrooms produced, about three kilograms of soil-like material containing straw, manure and peat is left…

Biofortified crops have a key role to play in COVID-19 response

COVID-19 has presented many challenges to agriculture this year, but those challenges are also providing lessons that can be used to strengthen smallholder…

Trends in the nut industry

Growing demand for all types of nuts

Megatrends in the global nut industry Global demand for nut categories such as macadamia continues to grow faster than supply, while hazelnuts and peanut…

Pakistan develops two new varieties of banana

Pakistan has achieved a breakthrough in banana production, as the country’s apex agricultural research institution has developed two varieties of the fruit for…

Finister Investments

AgriFood Tech investment continues to climb amid pandemic

AgriFood Tech Investment Continues to Climb Amid Pandemicby Arama Kukutai (Cofounder and Partner) and Ingrid Fung (Investment Director). Despite the current political climate…

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