Meldungen aus Europa – Page 4689
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Organic charity opens up
Plant sciences company Niab and HDRA are planning their annual joint open day
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ArticleWallace gets tender
Former greengrocer turned Masterchef judge, Greg Wallace, has been signed up as the new face of Tenderstem broccoli.
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ArticleWestern moves forward
Western International and Kier Developments have been successful in their application for planning permission to build a new site for the Hounslow market.
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Sandwich show rebrands and re-routes
The Total Sandwich Show is expanding and rebranding, to encompass a wider range of snack products and represent the increasing diversity of choice for consumers.
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ArticleCLAM up, despite downs
The total citrus yield in 2004/05 in the Mediterranean Basin countries amounted to 18.15 million tonnes, out of the global citrus yield of 91.5mt. However, delegates at the recent annual meeting of CLAM (Liaison Committee for Mediterranean Citrus Fruit Culture), were told that the total citrus yield of CLAM members was 4.5 per cent higher than the forecast of 17.4mt given at the beginning of the 2004/05 season. Of the total yield, 7.8mt were used for local consumption in the respective countries, 3.3mt for processing, loss and damages accounted for 1.2mt, and 5.8mt were exported.
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ArticleHazeldene athletic
Hazeldene Foods Ltd was once a small-time radish marketer, but thanks to some sharp business acumen a multi-million pound investment, the Lancashire-based food company has experienced something of a rebirth. With a new site in Wigan, Hazeldene says it means business and, just like its footballing neighbours at the JJB stadium, is now ready for the premier league. Emma Twyning was given a tour of the new factory by two of the company’s management team.
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ArticleRocha love affair
Portugal’s Rocha Pear offer is way down this year, but with plantations steadily expanding, and young people developing a strong love affair with the fruit, this could be the pear to forge increasing interest in the category as a whole. Elspeth Waters reports.
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Soap opera finds its denouement
The French fruit and vegetable industry has been shocked by the sudden and unexpected resignation of Interfel president, Denis
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Everlasting summer making impact across the board
It’s certainly going down on record as an elongated summer, and I must assume not just in the UK. Sweetcorn harvesting
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Tactics designed to get a response
It was inevitable I guess, but the last 10 days do appear to have heralded the beginning of a backlash against the UK
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£1m booster for waste scheme
A new farm plastic-waste collection programme has received £1million funding from Defra.
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ArticleCabbage cuts cancer risk
Eating cabbage could help cut the risks of lung cancer for some individuals, scientists have claimed.
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Scots step up schools project
Following its success in improving the diets of school children, Scottish ministers are discussing plans to widen the entitlement to free school meals.
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ArticleMore produce lines join ECR elite
Three produce lines join elite as record number of products score 100 per cent in the quarterly ECR UK On-Shelf Availability survey.
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90-day RhiNo restriction lifted
The restriction limiting potato seed treatments with RhiNo (flutolanil) to within 90 days of planting has been lifted, allowing applications to next season’s seed to be made from now on.
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Farmers down tools in supermarket price protest
Rebellious farmers have launched a series of strikes over the prices supermarkets offer for their produce.
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OFT criticised and urged to act
The grocery market could find itself the focus of a full Competition Commission investigation after the Office of Fair Trading was ordered to urgently reconsider its decision not to recommend a full inquiry into the sector.
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Kibbutz sued for its seeds
Israeli Kibbutz is successfully sued for providing seedless watermelon seeds that yielded seeded fruit
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ArticleNatureWorks packaging revolution
US producer of corn-derived packaging is now capable of achieving the world’s first greenhouse-gas-neutral polymer.
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