Meldungen aus Europa – Page 4340
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ArticleAshbourne hosts banana world record attempt
The Derbyshire town of Ashbourne is the place to be on Saturday, as up to 200 locals attempt to break a banana world record.
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ArticleS&A claims early gras record
Worcestershire grower S&A Produce has broken the record to get the first English asparagus into a Tesco store by four weeks.
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Tolan resigns as Fyffes ceo
Fyffes PLC chief executive Jimmy Tolan has announced his decision to resign from his post, with effect from April 30 2008.
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ArticleSnell snaps up Grower of the Year
Herefordshire soft-fruit grower AJ & CI Snell snapped up the 2008 Grower of the Year award at the Royal Lancaster hotel in London last night.
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Claricom: leap year warning
Claricom, leading manufacturer of Package Coding Management (PCM) Systems, is advising food manufacturers that rely on manual data entry to double check their use-by dates in March this year.
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ArticlePM warns retailers on plastic bag use
Gordon Brown has warned that he will force retailers to cut down on plastic bags if they fail to do so on their own initiative.
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Lettuce growers reduced to drastic measures
Lettuce producers in Murcia have taken drastic measures to try and increase prices paid for their crops.
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Potato plantings go in early
Soil conditions in many parts of the UK are drying out well to enable slightly earlier than usual plantings of potatoes.
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ArticleJenney predicts plant health catastrophe
The Fresh Produce Consortium (FPC) has said it is “gravely concerned” over Defra’s ability to implement fully EU plant-health imports legislation.
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ArticleJoin the cue
Decent weather and good light levels over the last few months have left UK cucumber growers cautiously optimistic that the season will pan out more successfully than it did in 2007. Laura Gould reports.
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ArticleHerbs on the mend
Fresh herbs have continued to grow in popularity in the UK but, following frost and storms in Israel this year, the market has tightened up over the last few months. The sector has worked hard to pull through the challenges, and now seven major producers - five from the UK and two from Israel - have come together to launch the second Fresh Herbs campaign. Anna Sbuttoni reports.
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Reading small print could cut consumer confusion
I must confess to never having read the small print when it comes to the descriptive minutiae of EU standards for fruit and
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There’s fair and there’s Fairtrade
The principles behind Fairtrade, in my opinion, are sound enough. Give poorer farmers the opportunity to live a better life
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ArticleFour years to be fair
The Fairtrade Foundation unveiled its four-year plan for transforming global trade on Tuesday, as it battled to fend off controversial criticism of the movement’s relevance at the start of this year’s Fairtrade Fortnight.
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Article5 A DAY results show place for EIC
The Fresh Produce Consortium has welcomed results from the recent Consumer Attitudes to Food survey.
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UAP calls for pesticide details
Landowners in the UK must respond urgently to industry calls to supply ‘pesticide use’ information or risk losing a number of products, which currently enable them to optimise the management and performance of game cover and environmental crops, warns United Agri Products Ltd (UAP).
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Greefa presents fruit sorting vision
One of the world’s largest developers and manufacturers of sorting machinery for fruit and vegetables, Greefa, has presented its vision on the future of sorting, with its machine FruitureSort.
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ArticleGarden takes advice on board
The formation of a new food advisory board at New Covent Garden Market was announced this week.
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ArticleSun World widens scope
Sun World has named three new marketers and granted its first licences in Brazil and Spain.
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ArticleM&S to introduce 5p plastic bag charge
Marks & Spencer is to start charging for plastic carrier bags in its food stores.