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Chinese producers are being encouraged to open up foreign markets to shift the excess of fruit production the country is seeing. Another cause of the imbalance is information asymmetry. Most […]
Tue 10/04/2018 by Richard Wilkinson
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Amidst an escalating trade war between China and the US, a historic event went little noticed. While the US has been exporting its apples to China since the 1990s, 2015 […]
Tue 10/04/2018 by Richard Wilkinson
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The world’s second largest economy, China, has announced it will retaliate to the imposition of tariffs on Chinese goods imposed by the US if an agreement cannot be reached with […]
Wed 28/03/2018 by Richard Wilkinson
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Chinese e.commerce platform Fruit Day is set to supply the Posy, an organic apple imported from New Zealand, introduced the Posy, a new organic apple grown in New Zealand. This […]
Wed 28/03/2018 by Richard Wilkinson
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The world’s largest vegetable producer, China, saw exports increase in value by 5.1% last year. However, Chinese vegetable exports to the EU only account for 2% of this number. Quality […]
Tue 13/03/2018 by Richard Wilkinson
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Shipments of organic apples, branded under the Artisan Organic label, have arrived on India’s shores from the US. Mumbai-based Indian importer IG is working in partnership with US grower Stemilt […]
Tue 13/03/2018 by Richard Wilkinson
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The 4.4 million tons of fresh fruit China imported in 2017 constituted a rise of 12%. This result is in sharp contrast with that of 2016, when fresh fruit imports […]
Tue 13/03/2018 by Richard Wilkinson
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The sugar orange farmers of China’s main production area, Guangxi, are not happy with the current state of the market, with prices far lower than the average of recent years. […]
Mon 12/03/2018 by Richard Wilkinson
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Thailand is the world’s largest producer of tropical fruits, with China its largest export destination. Thailand also imports large quantities of temperate fruits from China. Data from 2017 show that […]
Mon 26/02/2018 by Richard Wilkinson
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Indian consumers are set to get their first taste of kiwiberries when the novel fruit arrives on the sub-continent from New Zeland this week. The first container is of Freshmax New […]
Mon 26/02/2018 by Richard Wilkinson
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One upshot of the recently signed trade agreements between Chile and Indonesian should be a massive influx of Chilean fruit onto the supermarkets shelves of the world’s fourth most populous […]
Mon 26/02/2018 by Richard Wilkinson
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China’s growing taste for avocado has led to the first consignment of New Zealand avocado to arrive on its shores. In the first batch to arrive, 40 boxes, totalling 220 […]
Mon 26/02/2018 by Richard Wilkinson
