Meldungen aus Europa – Page 4977

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    Industry welcomes organic boost

    2003-06-06T00:00:00Z

    The NFU has welcomed the government's Organic Farming Scheme, which aims to provide a boost to the UK's organic industry to bring it into line with the rest of Europe.

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    British Potato Council's bus misused

    2003-06-06T00:00:00Z

    The British Potato Council's promotional bus has attracted widespread attention – for handing out Israeli spuds.

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    Tesco pay storm escalates

    2003-06-05T00:00:00Z

    Tesco is at the centre of a new storm over pay to their executives

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    Ahold to sell US Foodservice

    2003-06-05T00:00:00Z

    Ahold is rumoured to be selling off all or part of its US Foodservice

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    Sainsbury's market share falls

    2003-06-05T00:00:00Z

    Sainsbury's share of the retail food trade market fell for the third time in four months

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    Climate and currency hit supply

    2003-06-05T00:00:00Z

    Prices for imported fruit from continental Europe are spiralling upward as currency and climatic factors combine.

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    Italy battles drought

    2003-06-05T00:00:00Z

    Drought warnings are in place in key growing areas in Italy as rivers and reservoirs fall to dangerously low levels and the lack of water threatens the viability crops.

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    Tomato market: beware over-segmentation

    2003-06-05T00:00:00Z

    Professor David Hughes warned delegates at the recent Alicante tomato conference that choice must not become a confusion.

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    GM debate farce

    2003-06-05T00:00:00Z

    The government backed public debate on the future of GM crops has been branded inadequate

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    WUWM to support wholesale industry

    2003-06-05T00:00:00Z

    The World Union of Wholesale Markets (WUWM) has established itself as a legally autonomous non-profit organisation in the Netherlands

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    Metalaxyl-M passes EU pesticides review

    2003-06-04T00:00:00Z

    The European Commission has given assurances to growers following its pesticides review.

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    Salvesen cut dividends

    2003-06-04T00:00:00Z

    Christian Salvesen, the logistics company has announced that dividends will be cut and future trading looks difficult.

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    Spanish growers count losses

    2003-06-04T00:00:00Z

    Spanish strawberry producers are licking their wounds at the end of a harrowing season.

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    Further UK potato blight outbreaks

    2003-06-04T00:00:00Z

    There have been further reports of potato blight in the UK this week taking the total of outbreaks to six

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    Murcia capsicum down

    2003-06-04T00:00:00Z

    Capsicum production in Murcia is on the wane with volumes falling by 67 per cent over the past 10 years.

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    French assess damage

    2003-06-04T00:00:00Z

    French fruit growers have calculated their frost-related losses to have affected a third of all French orchards and to have caused ?240 million worth of damage.

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    Syngenta opts for partnerships

    2003-06-04T00:00:00Z

    Manuel Madrid of Syngenta Vegetable Seeds Europe outlined the group's belief in Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) at the recent Alicante tomato conference.

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    Added value fatigue warning

    2003-06-04T00:00:00Z

    A little less conversation, a little more action was the call from Promar's Michelle Gibson at a recent conference.

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    Stone fruit suffers

    2003-06-04T00:00:00Z

    Frosts across European orchards in March and April left Spain virtually unscathed, but now growers in Lerida are dealing with the consequences of hail damage late last month.

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    TNS figures show success of soft fruit industry

    2003-06-04T00:00:00Z

    This week's Journal includes our annual strawberry and raspberry supplement. Here TNS Superpanel figures illustrate the successes of the industry in recent times. See Friday's Journal for full tables.