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ArticleTurkey rains hit stocking-fillers
Rainfall in Turkey over the last 10 days is likely to bring about an early end to the satsuma season from the country.
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Hand-picked to keep it real
Real Food reveals how it is hand-picking and subsidising smallartisan producers to showcase at next April's London festival.
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Suriname sets banana sights
The banana industry in Suriname is going through a major resurgence thanks to national government and EU aid programmes.
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Well Pict goes South West
Well Pict County Local and International Produce are working towards supplying local dessert apples to Asda customers in South West England.
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ArticleIsraeli flower exports to jingle at Christmas
Israeli flower growers from the Arava region will send more than 500,000 flowers to western Europe over the festive season, weighing in at nearly 30 tonnes.
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NFU backs good practice guide
A good practice information sheet, giving farmers guidance on handling, segregation and storage of agricultural waste plastics (AWP), has been launched.
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ArticleGalangal adds to Parripak power
Parripak Foods has started processing galangal alongside its fresh vegetables and garlic purees.
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ArticleFlorist wins skills council award
Lantra, the UK Sector Skills Council for the environmental and land-based sector, has awarded the Land-based Learner of the Year “Life-long Learner 2007” title to florist Julie Amies-Carter.
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ArticleDelivering Christmas
More than 1.5 million people employed in transport and logistics will be working hard to ensure prompt and reliable Christmas deliveries.
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Veg varieties in decline
Organic charity Garden Organic believes that 98 per cent of vegetable varieties have disappeared over the past century - and says EU regulations are speeding up the decline.
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CCG unveils UK base
The Cool Chain Group has opened UK subsidiary CCG Logistics (UK) Ltd with some of the best-known names in the UK perishables trade.
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Leaked report swings in Ecuador's favour
A leaked final report from the three judges charged by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to rule on Ecuador’s complaint about the EU banana import regime comes down in the South American country’s favour.
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ArticleIrish sprout crop gets ministerial boost
The Brussels sprout may not be everyone’s favourite vegetable, but its popularity got a major boost in the Irish parliament in Dublin last Friday, courtesy of horticulture minister Trevor Sargent.
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Defra's rotten PEACH
Defra has had to apologise again this week for continued difficulties with its PEACH computer system for importers.
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ArticleBIFGA asks for permanent supermarket regulator
The British Independent Fruit Growers’ Association (BIFGA) has called upon the Competition Commission to install a “permanent, proactive regulator” to oversee the dealings of all multiple retailers.
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Eat in Colour signs new names
Three major new sponsors have signed up to support the Eat in Colour (EiC) campaign to raise fresh produce consumption in the UK.
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Silver shopper target of retail seminar
Charity Help the Aged is to host a seminar, ‘What Older People Want and Expect from the High Street’, on January 17.
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Fyffes awarded all costs in DCC case
Fyffes claims that the Irish Supreme Court has decided it should be awarded all costs in DCC case.
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Improve director takes on new post
Paula Widdowson, commercial director of Improve, the food and drink sector skills council, has left the organisation to join Northern Foods in the new position of director of corporate social responsibility.
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ArticleWater flows to forefront
Until recently, water-use efficiency (WUE) was not a big issue for many growers in the UK. There were few restrictions on water abstraction and the cost was negligible. But climate change, competition for water between different users and new regulations have changed all that, and brought WUE to the forefront of growers’ minds. In part two of Warwick HRI’s climate change series for FPJ, Dr Andrew Thompson tells us how to stay afloat.