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Demand for fresh apples is soaring in India, driving a sharp increase in imports in the first nine months of the current fiscal year. Between April and December 2021, import […]
Tue 22/02/2022 by Richard Wilkinson
USDA/Lance Cheng
The US transport sector reports that vaccine mandates have intensified a long-term shortage of truckers in the United States. Website Producer reports Jon Eisen of American Trucking Associations as saying: […]
Tue 22/02/2022 by Richard Wilkinson
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USApple said apple exports to Southeast Asia have declined by 40% in the last three years. The drastic drop in exports is especially being felt as Chinese New Year (February […]
Thu 17/02/2022 by Richard Wilkinson
MERCADONA
Spain’s leading supermarket chain Mercadona has pledged to purchase 30% more Spanish-grown avocados this season, taking the total to over 8,400 tons. In a statement, the retailer said it is committed to sourcing fresh fruits […]
Tue 15/02/2022 by Richard Wilkinson
AgriFutures Australia
Following on from the success of two sell-out events in 2019 and 2020, evokeAG. organiser AgriFutures Australia, announced Adelaide as the host city for the internationally acclaimed agrifood tech event […]
Thu 03/02/2022 by Richard Wilkinson
El Core Inglés
The total value of EU agri-food trade (exports plus imports) for January-September 2021 stood at €239.5 billion, a 6.1% increase compared to the corresponding period last year. Exports were 8% […]
Thu 13/01/2022 by Richard Wilkinson
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Four percent of the total acreage of farmland in the Netherlands is used for organic production, while the market share of organic products remains at roughly three percent. Dutch consumers’ […]
Mon 13/12/2021 by Richard Wilkinson
Fruitcare.eu
PRIMA, a partnership in the Mediterranean area that strikes for Research and Innovation backed by the European Union, has created SUPROMED, an online platform to optimise water, energy and fertiliser […]
Fri 10/12/2021 by Amanda Cardinal
Last week’s 2nd Inversolar Congress offered two days of interesting and constructive presentations in which solar greenhouses were confirmed as the most sustainable and efficient agricultural model available and the […]
Wed 08/12/2021 by Richard Wilkinson
EU Commission
In light of pandemic-related travel restrictions affecting the region, EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski decided to postpone his high-level mission to Singapore and Vietnam, originally announced for March/April 2022. Led […]
Wed 08/12/2021 by EU Commission/Richard Wilkinson
EU Commission
The 2021 EU Agricultural Outlook conference will take place online on 9 and 10 December. Now in its eighth edition, the theme of this year’s event is ‘Fit for 2030 […]
Wed 08/12/2021 by EU Commission/Richard Wilkinson
