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The sales of Bonduelle vegetables has declined by 15% in the second semester of 2012 compared to the same period in 2011.Bonduelle's preserves don't just have a sales market in Russia, but also in Kazakhstan and Belarus.Bonduelle has been available in Russia and Eastern European countries since the 90's......

Le Gaga Holdings Limited GAGA, a leading greenhouse vegetable producer in China, today announced that the special committee of the Company's board of directors (the "Special Committee") has appointed Duff & Phelps, LLC as its independent financial advisor and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP as its.....

Ethiopian vegetable and fruit exporters are considering expanding into the South Korean market, with the launch of direct flights to Seoul by Ethiopian Airlines.At the moment Ethiopian produce is only exported to Europe and the Middle East. The Asian market is seen as having high potential. Direct flights.....

Biosecurity SA says it may launch legal action against a Riverland grower, who has been stopped allegedly carrying 3.5 tonnes of fruit into the region without a current permit.The fruit was seized from the grower during a random fruit fly roadblock at Blanchetown last week.Plant and food standards manager.....

The arrival of the monsoon in Maharashtra has brought much relief to the local population, who were suffering water shortages. However, it has had a negative effect on the arrival of fruits and vegetables in the wholesale markets. The shortages have seen prices rise between 50 - 80% over the last two weeks......

According to the latest data processed byFruitImprese, another drop in exported volumes was registered in the first three months of 2013, so the value increased. Imports are on the rise, both as regards quantity (+4.8%) and value (+9.5%). The balance is of around €347 million, an 4.5% increase with respect.....

Sixty four year old Hisashi Tarukawa ended his life in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Prior to that, he was prohibited from selling his vegetables because of the disaster. Tarukawa's world collapsed. Hisashi Tarukawa's family took legal steps against energy company TEPCO after his death. They.....

Apples and bananas were the best selling types of fruit in Swiss retail in the last year, reports German website Gabot.de. A total of 67,363 tonnes of apples and 56,760 tonnes of bananas were sold by conventional growers. Bananas were the best selling organic fruit (13,621 tonnes), followed by apples.....

The cold weather in May has led to high apple sales in Switzerland, reports the German website Gabot.de. The apple supplies in May decreased to 8,492 tonnes, this is to see in the numbers from Swisscofel and the 'Schweizer Obstverband' (SOV).Alongside the cold weather, the high quality of the apples and.....

From next week, Van Dijk Foods will have Turkish cherries in the assortment. According to Kastriot Cena they are of exceptionally good quality this season. "The season started a week earlier than other years because of the warm weather in Turkey. We now already supply clients in countries like Austria and.....

Harris Moran Seed Company’s 2013 Melon Field Day in Yuma, Arizona exhibited great turnout from Industry professionals throughout the Melon Supply Chain, with contingents from both the United States and Mexico. The event facilitated an excellent platform for the discussion of new products, market dynamics,.....

Spayka Company has exported 3 thousand tons of apricots to CIS countries so far, the company’s representative Karen Baghdasarian told reporters.According to him, Spayka purchases apricots for 400-500 AMD per kilogram from farmers. In addition to this, work is being carried out to organize the export of.....

The New Zealand Groundspread Fertilisers’ Association (NZGFA) is proud to announce Methven will host the 57th Annual Conference of NZGFA from 30th June – 3rd July.Themed “Spreading for the Future”, this year’s conference will bring delegates from across New Zealand along with suppliers and trainers to the.....

Research published by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) during the last month on the citrus cultivation in Morocco confirms apredicted decrease in harvest. The total citrus harvest this season is 1,494 million tons - about 20% smaller than the previous year, as mentioned on the German website,.....

Once again, Bulgaria confiscated a batch of peppers from Turkey that had an excess of residue levels, as was informed to Hortoinfo by the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF).After carrying out the relevant analysis, the Bulgarian authorities found that the peppers contained 0.567 mg/kg of.....

Colorado’s count of hepatitis A cases from the frozen berry mix sold at Costco has now reached at least 22 patients, according to a new CDC update. The new summary also mentions that a sister agency, the FDA, is now looking at the food manufacturer’s plant for more clues of the origins of the apparently.....

Cashew nut production in Mozambique is this year expected to total 110,000 tons, and the sales campaign has already sold 85,000 tons, the director of the National Cashew Institute (INCAJU), Filomena Maiópuè said.At the annual meeting to plan the activities of the Cashew Institute, held in the city of.....

Freshpack Handling Systems from ’s-Gravenzande (Sorma Benelux) offer a vertical packing machine, weighing and Vertbag-packing specially developed for sweet potatoes. The latest packing machine (Sorma BSS-134) has been adjusted in such a way, that a difficult product like a sweet potato can be packed.....

The global expansion of the snacks involvingfreeze-driedfruit and complementary ingredients from corn is one of the goals of the Catalan firm Snack Saludable, which in 2011 created the fruit snack Casual Fruit.After its launch in Finland, with 25,000 initial units to supply over 900 Kesko supermarkets,.....

On Monday 17 June 2013, the hypermarket in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, which is Carrefour's first hypermarket in France, celebrated its 50th birthday at an event hosted by Noël Prioux, Executive Director France, and Store Manager Jérôme Peyrou, attended by Georges Plassat and Olivier Leonhardt, Mayor of.....