Greece has undergone an extremely cold winter in January, but production of Thompson and Attica Seedless are expected to be similar to last year's crop.
The main growing areas experienced heavy rainfall from November 2001 to January this year, but this has proved beneficial to vines.
'The only problem Greek growers are expecting to face is botrytis,' reports Mimi Spiliopoulou of Fesa UK. 'But this will be treated in the early stages of flowering.'
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The facility has 24 ripening cells on two levels and two packaging lines with a capacity of 45 trays per minute
Peter Shakespeare of Certis Belchim UK explains that growers must think carefully about how to integrate biorational controls in their IPM programmes as synthetic products continue to be banned
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Tim O’Malley, group managing director of UK grower-importer Nationwide Produce, highlights the current weather challenges facing the fresh produce industry
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