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Commercial apple production in the EU for 2017/18 is expected to fall to 9.2 million tons, representing an 18% (or 2.09 million ton) drop from 2016/17. This figure will constitute […]
Thu 09/11/2017 by Richard Wilkinson
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Despite forecasts of a 20% fall in production from last year, Rivoira and VI.P – Val Venosta are upbeat about the prospects for the start of the 2017/18 season. The […]
Tue 26/09/2017 by Richard Wilkinson
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A new Club apple is to be added to the assortment offered by the Italian apple Consortium, VOG, which from 2020 will be planting trees to produce Crimson Snow®, which […]
Fri 01/09/2017 by Richard Wilkinson
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A new look has been created for JAZZTM, the brand of the apple variety bred in New Zealand and grown and distributed in Italy exclusively by VOG in Alto Adige/Südtirol. […]
Mon 22/05/2017 by Richard Wilkinson
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Rubens® International Project is now growing up with the official entrance of DELTA AGRAR Group (Serbia, Bosnia Erzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia) who joined the other Licensees from Austria (Efko and Stift […]
Wed 22/03/2017 by Richard Wilkinson
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The new marketing strategy of Asprofrut is to raise the international profile of one of the leading PGIs of the Italian fruit sector, the Red Cuneo Apple PGI. “In terms […]
Mon 27/02/2017 by Richard Wilkinson
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Although marketing efforts have initially still been hampered by the closure of the Russian market, BFV has managed to stay profitable over the last two years. The turnover of Belgium’s biggest […]
Thu 02/02/2017 by Richard Wilkinson
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Farmers in northern Italy are said to be worried about the proliferation of the brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys). The crops most at risk are apples, pears, kiwi fruit, […]
Mon 30/01/2017 by Richard Wilkinson
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Modi apple – the red apple with a unique modern taste and eco-friendly thanks to its rustic tree with an innate resistance to the main pathogens that reduces to a bare […]
Wed 11/01/2017 by Richard Wilkinson
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EU apple production is likely to increase in the future, particularly in Poland, while consumption of fresh apples per capita keeps on decreasing. That is among the predictions in the […]
Mon 02/01/2017 by Richard Wilkinson
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Apples were the focus of our regular Around the World section in the latest edition of Eurofresh Distribution magazine. Here is that page as it appeared in issue 146. Read […]
Thu 22/12/2016 by Richard Wilkinson
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Since its debut in Spain at the Fruit Attraction fair in Madrid in October, Ambrosia – an apple combining sweet taste, low acidity and a crisp bite – has been […]
Thu 15/12/2016 by Richard Wilkinson
