The largest co-operative vegetable auction in Europe, Belgium-based Mechlin, is celebrating 10 years of procuring on-the-vine tomatoes.
Just 245kg were sold in 1993 when the product was launched compared to 55 million kg in 2003. Total Belgian tomato production stands at 115,000 tonnes and on-the-vine tomatoes now make up 43 per cent of the total Belgian tomato offer.
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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
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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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