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In April in Ferrara, Italy’s fresh produce agency Centro Servizi Ortofrutticoli (CSO) – a leading forum for operators throughout the fruit and vegetable supply chain – held its assembly to elect its governing bodies for the […]
Tue 31/05/2016 by Gabriele Orsi
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Europatat and Freshfel Europe will jointly celebrate their first combined annual meeting on June 2 in Brussels. Adhering to the European Commission work programme for 2016, the common conference will […]
Mon 30/05/2016 by Richard Wilkinson
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Taste, freshness, juicy flesh, health… and especially the desire to recapture the old flavour experience still remembered so well today, when each fruit had its own special flavour. To succeed […]
Sun 29/05/2016 by Richard Wilkinson
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Although the total acreage used for covered horticultural production in the Netherlands fell 13% in the past decade, from 10,540 ha in 2005 to 9,200 ha in 2015, for some […]
Sun 29/05/2016 by Richard Wilkinson
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Total melon imports within the European Union, including watermelon and papayas, last year reached a value of €1 billion and a volume of 1.7 million tons The value of watermelon […]
Wed 25/05/2016 by Richard Wilkinson
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Alimentaria Barcelona, Spain’s biannual food and drinks fair, is becoming more international. Organisers were delighted by this year’s figures of more than 140,000 attendees from 157 countries (16 more than […]
Thu 12/05/2016 by Richard Wilkinson
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Bayer and the Institute of Geography and Department of Informatics at the University of Hamburg are entering into a five-year research partnership aimed at jointly developing new, digital solutions for sustainable agriculture based on geoinformatics methods and […]
Tue 10/05/2016 by Richard Wilkinson
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Fruit&Veg Innovation – a new annual international trade show for fruit and vegetables – is to make its debut May 8-11, 2017, in conjunction with Tuttofood in Milan. Last week, […]
Mon 09/05/2016 by Richard Wilkinson
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From Italy’s CIV strawberry breeding programme comes the Flaviapvr variety, which is particularly suited for integrated and organic cultivation and is attracting growing interest for the Flaviapvr variety in Spain. […]
Fri 06/05/2016 by Richard Wilkinson
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Sustainability is hot, with many companies showing an increasing interest in efforts to sustain the food chain. But the term is used so often it has become a container concept […]
Thu 05/05/2016 by Richard Wilkinson
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The Medfel fair has just ended and the comments of satisfaction are numerous among members of Saint-Charles Export. The fair, now in its eighth edition, was organised by the South […]
Wed 04/05/2016 by Richard WIlkinson
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New Zealand-based Compac, a world leader in post-harvest integrated solutions and services to the fresh produce industry, recently held the official opening of its European headquarters in Valencia, Spain. With […]
Fri 29/04/2016 by Richard Wilkinson
