WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 10, 2017) – United Fresh is now accepting nominations for the 2018 Retail Produce...

Hortgro, the support organisation for the South African deciduous fruit industry, is worried about the professional pressure...

The South African Table Grape Industry (SATI) is concerned about the persistent drought described as a 3 in 100 years occurrence, but expect it to lead to a 2017/2018 harvest in line with the 5 year average crop (the average crop size from the 2012/13 to 2016/17 season is 57,9 million cartons)....

SnowValley Agricultural Group and Aviko Group, invested by the joint venture between the two leading potato product...

The Bühler Group unveils the SORTEX F – the industry’s most hygienic optical sorter – at Pack...

A study in the New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science shows that Hayward, or green kiwifruit production...

Asia’s leading continental fresh produce show attracts more than 13,000 trade visitors from 76 different countries. Hong...

For the VOG Consortium, 2016/2017 was the last of three difficult post embargo apple seasons, with European...

Using science and technology to inform sustainable farming practices and reduce adverse environmental impacts will have better outcomes than taxes will, Horticulture New Zealand chief executive Mike Chapman says.Science and technology the answer to water quality Using science and technology to inform sustainable farming practices and reduce adverse environmental impacts will have...

AgroPress is hiring an Advertising Sales Representative for several Agriculture Magazines We are looking for a sales...

Zespri says it has found the grower distributing kiwifruit varieties to China. The New Zealand kiwifruit grower...

KOCHI: Vietnam may spoil India’s plans to raise its cashew exports as it has cornered a large share of raw nuts from West Africa for processing. India‘s cashew export has been falling in the last two years. From 1.2 lakh tonnes in 2014-15, it plummeted to 82,302 tonnes last year. Zooming price...

Workers of the Long Viet Co Ltd in the southern province of Phu Yen’s Tuy Hoa City process cashew nuts for export.  A new regulation is causing hundreds of raw cashew material containers to pile up at the city’s ports. According to the association, many enterprises importing cashew materials for processing and...

Award winning Cowra farmer Ed Fagan has welcomed the Australia horticulture industry’s historic trade push that aims to grow exports significantly by 2025. The industry is targeting massive spikes in the exports of vegetables, cherries and almonds and a new focus on the export of fresh strawberries. A new brand to help market Australia’s highly sought-after produce...

Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Okeechobee, announced Thursday that he has introduced the bipartisan CITRUS Act, a bill developed with grower input that will help expedite the delivery of the economic assistance needed in the short-term to save the U.S. domestic citrus industry. Joined by Rep. David Valadao, R-California, and Rep. Filemon Vela, D-Texas,...

After more than a decade at the United Fresh Produce Association and a career that spans 40 years, Lorelei DiSogra, Ed.D., R.D., Vice President, Nutrition and Health, will retire at the end of May. During her tenure, she helped shape federal nutrition policies to increase fruit and vegetable consumption for children and...

Tomato prices breached the Rs 100 per kg-mark in Mumbai and Delhi on Tuesday due to severe shortage of supply. In Mumbai, prices of tomatoes have shot up to Rs 150 a kg in the retail market while in Ahmedabad and Delhi it is around Rs 100 per kg. The lack of...

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.–(Business Wire)–Dole Food Company announced today that the Huelquen Farm has been successfully audited to the Sustainable Agriculture Network Standard and is now Rainforest Alliance Certified™. Huelquen Farm, located in Paine, Chile, grows 100 hectares of grapes under the Dole label as well as private labels. Huelquen Farm mixes traditional...

Gary Wishnatzki, owner of Wish Farms® – Florida berry grower and a leader in the U.S. agricultural...

In the world of irrigation technology, one eight-year old startup is rising to the top of the competitive pack. Denver-based SWIIM System – formally known as the Sustainable Water and Innovative Irrigation Management System – has software that creates a crop-water budget based on data collected over 60 times an hour and...

It’s called the V12B445 but it will have a more palatable name by the time it hits...

It was an all-New Zealand affair in Orange County, California today as Zespri officially opened its regional...

We are looking for a sales representative in your area for two of the world leading global agriculture magazines: The Fruit World (fresh produce) and The Clipper (nuts and dried fruit).  You work independently and commission-based. Locations: California, Florida, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Spain, Italy, France, Canada, Argentina, Chile, Peru AgroPress offers an extremely beneficial commission system. The company...

For Costa Rica, the world’s third largest banana exporter, this “hidden enemy” is a major threat — apart from being a major export earner for the nation, the fruit is responsible for over 100,000 jobs. Gil De Diego Salas, director of Calinda Farm, employs 210 staff and exports 20 million kilograms of...

Strawberry farmers could improve their income by nearly £400,000 over three years with new water-saving technology developed...

THE gross value of Australian agriculture increased by $3.1 billion over 2015-16 to a total of $56 billion, according to new data released last week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The Agricultural Census for 2015-16 is one of the largest statistical collections undertaken by the ABS. The five-yearly survey is a...

ANAHEIM, Calif., July 10, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Greengro Technologies, Inc. (OTC:GRNH), one of the fastest growing companies in the emerging indoor agriculture technology industry, today announced that its majority-owned subsidiary Biodynamics, LLC, Akron, Ohio, has been awarded a contract to sell a branded photovoltaic (PV) solar glass hydroponic vegetable greenhouse as part of a...

UN agencies have reviewed the impacts of forestry and hi-tech irrigation technologies on water, and are urging governments and other responsible actors to resolve conflicts, and take control of water resources and allocations. The World Water Council (WWC) has issued its 2016 report, which calls for mainstreaming water in a variety of...

Aquapioneers’ open source kit lets you print your own aquaponics ecosystem Do you find your goldfish waiting for you, floating face up in the water when you get home from work? Do plants wilt at your touch? If you answered yes to either of these questions, then Barcelona-based startup Aquapioneers has engineered...

The general manager of the Peruvian Association of Producers and Exporters of Mango (APEM), Juan Carlos Rivera Ortega, said that, even though it is too early to quantify the production of mangoes in the 2017/2018 season (as flowering occurs in August-September), production would be affected by the damage that the Coastal El...

APAL has focused on productivity and mechanisation to improve labour efficiency and hence profitability of Australian orchard businesses. These strategies, although very effective, are capital intensive and increase fixed capital costs. The industry needs to challenge this paradigm with alternative strategies to ensure Australia’s orchards are globally competitive in the future. ustralia is,...

The previous Operations Manager, Gerald Hirt will take over corporate responsibility for the coordination of ship traffic.  Gerald Hirt is the new Managing Director of the Hamburg Vessel Coordination Center (HVCC). The HVCC Advisory Board appointed the former Operations Manager to succeed Heinrich Goller. “Gerald Hirt is one of the more experienced...

Researchers with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire have succeeded in...

Hortau was recently named a CogX Award finalist in the Best Artificial Intelligence Product in Agriculture category....

 In 1925, Rudolph Hass (rhymes with pass) was 33 years old and earning 25 cents an hour...

A new trend in apple cultivation has emerged in Himachal Pradesh — apples are being grown in sparsely vegetative areas at higher altitudes such as Lahaul and Spiti valley, courtesy of climate change a study claims. Fruit production industry in hilly zones is seeing a rise in temperature. Because of this, production...

World-wide consumer interest in healthy food, growers being early-adopters of innovation, and rapid growth make horticulture in New Zealand ripe for further investment, says Horticulture New Zealand chief executive Mike Chapman. “Today, the government has released a business-focused overview in The Investor’s Guide to the New Zealand Produce Industry 2017 which shows potential investors...

The 13th International Fruit and Vegetable Promotion Congress will be held in Poland on 19 September 2017. The event is organised every year in a different world market in order to address the issue of the low consumption of fruits and vegetables. The purpose of the Congress is to promote the habit...

Professor Bruce Reisch led the team that created the new Concord-type grape. Matt Steecker / Staff video,...

The state government’s move to set up a separate horticulture university has caused resentment among the research...

Hong Kong/Berlin, 28 June 2017 – Asia’s premier fresh fruit and vegetable trade show is set for...

Nielsen has released a new report that measures the consumption of orange juice in retail And as in...

On June 13, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration indefinitely delayed several sugar and calorie labeling requirements made famous by Michelle Obama during the previous administration. In response, labeling advocates have accused the Trump administration of, as the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s Jim O’Hara put it, “denying consumers critical...

They cultivate the state’s official berry, and now cranberry growers are asking for the state to extend...

Uzwil, Switzerland, June 27, 2017 – Bühler Insect Technology will build its first industrial plant to process...

TOMRA Sorting Food has unveiled a powerful new graphical user interface (UI) to help food processors get...

A new report from the University of Waikato shows the new varieties breeding programme for kiwifruit, supported...

The state government is coming up in the production of pomegranate in a very big way. Well known agricultural scientist Dr R K Pal, director of National Research Centre On Pomegranate, Solapur, Maharashtra with his team of scientists visited Purulia and Bankura for livelihood intervention through establishment of pomegranate orchards in the...

Like farmers across the nation, Wisconsin farmers rely on immigrant labor. These are jobs that American workers...

From July 1 all business entities of Uzbekistan got the right to export fresh fruit and vegetable products, grapes and melons on the basis of direct contracts, under the terms of a 100 percent advance payment, reads the presidential decree published on the official website of the president. Previously, only specialized foreign...

Agricultural producers could, in the future, make use of better forecasts to more efficiently irrigate their fields...

Napa-based Wine RayZyn Company – which launched in January 2016 banking on the inspiration to turn dried...

BEIJING — Food exporters including the United States and European Union are stepping up pressure on China to scale back plans for intensive inspections of imports that they say would hamper access to its fast-growing market. The group, which also includes Japan and Australia, sent a joint letter to Chinese regulators asking...

We’ve smashed them, scooped them, sliced them and blended them. Now we have started tattooing avocados as...

PLANS TO accelerate the growth of Scotland’s fruit and veg sector will be the focus of a...

The 2016/17 season is finally over and for many it will be one to forget. The lowest crop in 10 years had a profound impact on the price of oil as well as impacting on the juice and fresh fruit markets globally. Now, as we look ahead to the new season starting...

Farming uses copious amounts of water–70 percent of all freshwater consumed is used for agriculture, according to...

Nearly 4,500 workers have brought 21 banana farms in the Bocas del Toro Division to a standstill...

Yamagata prefecture lies at roughly the 38th parallel at 2,625 feet above sea level on the main...

Can Amazon, the company that persuaded people to buy ever more items online, win enough of them...

Jain Irrigation’s Food Division was conferred with the Golden Trophy award and Certificate of Merit by APEDA...

New annual trade show for China’s fresh produce trade to kick off in Shanghai on 14-16 May...

Topic: “Consumer Behaviour. Is the customer a king, dictator or slave?” Berlin, 16 June 2017. Increasing health...

CHICAGO, IL (June 14, 2017) – During today’s opening general session of the United FreshMKT, United FreshTEC,...

Canadian greenhouse vegetable grower Mastronardi Produce has purchased Backyard Farms in Madison, New England’s largest year-round tomato...

While fruits and vegetables are undeniably good for the body, they’re also a major boost for Alabama’s economy, according to a new study. Auburn University and Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station economists found this out in a recently completed analysis of the industry. “Specialty crops is definitely a potential growth area for Alabama,”...

Though India once had a virtual monopoly on small cardamom production and export, at present the largest producers of small cardamom are Guatemala and India while the smaller producers include Tanzania, Sri Lanka, Papua New Guinea, El Salvador, Lao PDR and Vietnam. Guatemala produces around 23000MT cardamom annually while Indian production is...

A high quality genome sequence of apple is published in this week’s Nature Geneticsby an international team...

Technology developers in countries like Israel are setting up solar desalination plants with innovative membrane technologies to generate thousands of gallons of fresh water LONDON, June 5, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — The rapid depletion of natural resources and exacerbation of environmental issues following large-scale industrialization is intensifying the need for advanced environment and...

A Texas chain of supermarkets isn’t just in the business of selling vegetables; it’s growing them, too. Based in Dallas, the H-E-B-owned Central Market has joined forces with Controlled Environment Agriculture Advisors, a self-described “horticulture disrupting” firm, to raise some of its produce in a custom-built onsite shipping container—a first for an...

GUELPH, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – June 1, 2017) – As Queens Park gathers at the annual “Celebrate Ontario’s Bounty” event to promote the good things that grow in Ontario, the Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association (OFVGA) reacted to the Provincial Government’s announcement to raise the minimum wage rate to $15/hour, putting local food...

Cambridge technology is integral to a piece of agricultural innovation that points the way to better crop...

Food and Drink Federation reports rise of 8.3% on same period last year to £4.9bn but add weak pound pushed up costs and resulted in 19% increase in trade deficit The growth in exports was welcomed by the Food and Drink Federation UK food and drink exports rose to “record” levels in...

Russia could discuss Turkey’s proposal to partially lift a ban on tomato supplies to Russia if Moscow is sure that it would not harm its domestic production or investors, Russian Agriculture Minister Alexander Tkachev told Reuters on June 1. In a bid to resolve a trade row with Russia, Ankara previously proposed...

Pests and bad weather reduced the country’s output of mango and calamansi in the first quarter of...

The Origine Group’s kiwi premium available 12 months a year thanks to partnership with Chilean producer The...

Season’s first volumes of high quality, organic pineapples now available across Europe from Eosta, one of the...

Increasingly savvy Chinese consumers and significant market investment have helped Zespri win both the supreme China business award and exporter of the year at the HSBC New Zealand-China Trade Association business awards in Auckland last night. The kiwifruit marketing giant has been exporting fruit to China for over a decade but the...

The entry of Argentinian lemons to the United States market, which took effect last Friday, and the opening of Brazil for Argentine oranges, tangerines, grapefruits and lemons, can’t counter a situation that now seems irreversible. This situation is related to the serious damage caused by the constant rains that fell over the...

NEW DELHI: India is likely to have the highest ever production of horticulture crops, including fruit and vegetables, in the 2016-17 crop year, ending June. The total production is estimated at 295 million tonnes, 3.2% higher than in 2015-16.  The estimate shows that 2016-17 will be the fifth straight year when India’s...

Water savings are just one of the productivity benefits expected to flow from an international pear research collaboration underway at Tatura, in the Goulburn Valley, Victoria. Early results of the jointly-funded Agriculture Victoria and Victorian Endowment for Science, Knowledge and Innovation (VESKI) sustainable agriculture fellowship program indicate pear growers may be able...

IN its forthcoming fifth and final budget, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s PTI-led coalition government is unlikely to break any new ground by denying substantial funding to agriculture to make the province self-sufficient in food. Over the past four years, agriculture got only 1.5-2.5pc of the amount earmarked for the province’s annual development programme. The...

LOUD has launched its first campaign for Zespri International since winning the account in December, following a seven-way pitch. Zespri International Limited is the world’s largest marketer of kiwifruit, selling into more than 53 countries and managing 30 percent of the global volume. With clients located across six markets as well as partners...

This year’s interpack, the world’s largest trade show for packaging, stretching over a whole week from 4 to 10 May 2017, attracted over 170,000 visitors from 168 countries to the Messe Duesseldorf, Germany. Besides the latest developments in world-class machinery and technology for the production and of packaging materials, three major themes...

Giving fruit, vegetables and other raw ingredients the botanical equivalent of sunburn can make them more nutritious, ­experiments have shown. Supermarkets already sell chestnut mushrooms treated with “pulsed light” to enhance their levels of vitamin D2, and the cheap and rapid technique appears to have similar effects on a whole range of...

Regarding the President’s Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Submission to Congress, the Specialty Crop Farm Bill Alliance released the following statement:“We are very disappointed to see the President’s budget, released yesterday, call for draconian cuts, or even total elimination of programs that are important to the specialty crop sector. Eliminating programs that are...

(Updates with details, background) By Orhan Coskun and Nevzat Devranoglu ANKARA, May 26 (Reuters) – In a bid to resolve a trade row with Russia, Turkey has proposed Moscow lifts its ban on imported Turkish tomatoes during periods when Russian growers are unable to produce their own. “We understand Russia would like...

“The whole community will have to rethink their water usage and alternative water resources must be unlocked, and recycling of water should be phased in. Water policies will have to change and dams must be enlarged to save more winter rainfall. Water storage should be adapted so that water is stored for...

The world is running out of water resources. The shortage will affect nearly all agricultural production around...

Japanese businesses have expressed interest in investing in organic agriculture and agricultural tourism in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang.OK Toshitsugu Hagihara, general director of Hagihara Company, one of Japan’s leading businesses in organic agriculture, told local leaders at a meeting on Tuesday in An Giang that his company wants to...

Agriculture is one of the world’s least digitised major industries, but this will change as data acquisition, agricultural robotics and analytic companies grow.A report by technological research company IDTechEx says that many agricultural robotic companies are graduating into the market and are in the process of transforming the value chain of agriculture.The...

The Canadian Produce Marketing Association has announced its new board of directors, which was elected at the Annual General Meeting, held during CPMA’s 92nd Annual Convention & Trade Show, May 9-11 in Toronto. The Executive Committee members of the board are: Chair Rick Alcocer of Duda Farm Fresh Foods; Past Chair Sam...

The World Apple and Pear Association (WAPA) and COPA-COGECA are pleased to announce their cooperation with Afrucat, representing the apple and pear growers in Catalonia, for this year’s Prognosfruit Conference 2017. As of today, the registrations for the 2017 event are open! The Prognosfruit Conference is Europe’s leading annual event for the...

WESLACO – The Mexican fruit fly is causing costly havoc for local citrus growers. The pest left its mark on more than 4,000 acres of orchards across the Rio Grande Valley. Texas Citrus Mutual said the fruit fly cost growers about $1 million in profits. Fred Karle has several hundred acres inside...

AUTOMATED irrigation systems could soon be the reality for farmers with commercial trials due to start soon....

Citrus farmers are looking for answers in an unlikely place. Today, one of their greatest enemies, citrus...

Food company UMI Ireland has said it’s hoping to find opportunities from Brexit following a major rebrand. The business, which specialises in vegetable products and value-added mushroom dishes, has also won three major awards. It’s based near Armagh on the Edenaveys Industrial Estate, and manufactures vegetable products as well as supplying loose,...

The spring 2017 issue of United’s Fresh Insights for Foodservice report, a quarterly publication from United Fresh showcasing the latest innovations in fresh produce use in foodservice, as well as the creativity of chefs and foodservice operations in incorporating fresh fruits and vegetables to create flavorful and vibrant menus, is now available. ...

A remarkable season of increased yields and the largest-ever New Zealand crop helped lift total Zespri sales volume from New Zealand to a record 137.7 million trays, 18 percent up on the previous year. Sales of kiwifruit from Zespri’s Northern Hemisphere supplying locations also grew by 14 percent to 16.6 million trays,...

The government has imposed a self-ban on vegetable export to the European Union market to avert any possible ban to be imposed by the bloc from where Bangladesh has been receiving objections for the last few years over the quality of Bangladeshi vegetables and fruits. Rather the government is focusing on encouraging...