Pear news archive
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ArticleJenna Tobin joins Pear Bureau Northwest’s marketing team
Tobin named new communications and social media coordinator
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ArticleHow can fruit growers conserve water? Just ask the trees
British apple supplier Adrian Scripps joins trial to evaluate special ‘listening’ technology, which could interpret stress signals in plants and help growers produce more sustainably
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ArticleNew Zealand’s biggest Pink Lady supplier ready for record campaign
As its first new-season apples arrive in Europe, Golden Bay Fruit is set to export more than two million cartons for the first time
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ArticleDemargro recognises opportunities in Brexit Britain
The Belgian exporter is intent on boosting its range of products and growing in new markets including the UK, which experienced shortages last year
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ArticleApal partners with Montague on pilot education programme
Programme aims to teach primary-aged students about Australia’s apple and pear industry
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ArticleSouth African delegation to India excited by market potential
Extensive visit by South African fresh produce industry to India brings home positive vibes
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ArticleMarenny Vale Orchards and Central Park Orchards join for big Goulburn Valley sale
EOI sale campaign aggregates properties from five families across Victoria’s Goulburn Valley region
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ArticleSouth African apple and pear growers turn to solar energy
Several producers who supply leading exporter Tru-Cape say their irrigation systems now depend far less on the country’s consistently unreliable national electricity network
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ArticleNew project aims to boost quality of Norwegian pears
NorgesGruppen, Bama and Gartnerhallen want consumers in Norway to eat more domestic produce, so have clubbed together to fund new research into the country’s pear production
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ArticleRed Sea and Green Deal disruptions set 'uncomfortable' precedent
Marc Evrard of topfruit exporter Belgian Fruit Valley talks to Fruitnet about some of the issues behind the farmers’ protests across Europe and the effect of the disruptions in the Red Sea on trade flows to East Asia
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NewsNew precision agriculture tech ‘could transform’ UK tree fruit industry
POME project led by crop advisory Hutchinsons aims to allow inputs to be targeted in a way never seen before in UK orchards
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ArticleSouth African port operator appoints new CEO
Michelle Phillips has been handed the top job at Transnet, the struggling logistics operator responsible for a string of delays and disruption in the country’s ports
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ArticlePear Bureau Northwest CEO to step down
Kevin Moffitt leaves his position at Pear Bureau Northwest after 35 years
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ArticleJeff Correa elected chairman of WAPA
World Apple and Pear Association announces new chairman
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ArticleSouth Africa’s compliance effort targets sensible, sustainable steps
The South African fruit industry says its answer to the proliferation of social and environmental certification schemes is rooted in realism and pragmatism
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CommentComment: South Africa’s exporters press on as problems persist
As Eurofruit’s Fresh Focus South Africa special reveals, disruption in South African ports has left the country’s fresh produce exporters with a mountain to climb
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ArticleItaly leads pack at Fruit Logistica as exports to Germany grow
Country retains number one spot at world’s leading fresh produce trade fair, with more than 470 individual exhibitors due to take part
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ArticleArgentina cautiously optimistic ahead of 2024 topfruit campaign
Exporters are consolidating their presence in Latin American markets
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CommentComment: a faint light at the end of a blustery tunnel
Delays in South African ports have blighted the country’s fruit export business, which finds itself almost powerless to intervene
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PodcastsFruitbox 99 · Christelle Bertin, Blue Whale
Chris speaks with Christelle Bertin of Blue Whale on confronting environmental challenges