All Production & Trade articles – Page 1810
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Late Spanish easy-peelers start picking
Grower organisations in Spain are calling on producers not to harvest late-season easy peelers Fortuna and Ortaline too soon as the harvest gets under way this week.
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Morocco enjoys quality year
Easy-peeler and orange crops have recovered from a late start in Morocco and are showing excellent top quality in a difficult market place.
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Western Cape grape in full swing
South African grape is bouncing back with increased supplies of seedless varieties from the Western Cape after climatic setbacks in the traditional Orange River area.
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Enza criticises new top-fruit body
A new export permit stucture in NZ is coming under fire from top fruit marketer Enzafruit.
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Chile starts Royal Gala harvest
With the arrival of summer in Chile, apple and pear harvests are starting and grapes reach the mid-point in their season.
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Rainfall boosts Argentinean citrus
Rainfall in the Argentinean province of Tucumánover the past week gives a timely boost to lemon crops.
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Sheerness attracts new shipping lines
Sheerness welcomes two new shipping lines that are to operate from the port, Lauritzen Reefers and Pacific Seaways, both importing a wide variety of fruit from Chile.
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HRI makes pesticide breakthrough
HRI-Wellsbourne uncovers soil-living bacteria able to break down a number of pesticide compounds. The genes which make this possible are also being singled out.
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NFU launches campaign for farmer relief
The National Farmers Union unveils an initiative to ease financial pressures on UK growers.
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New traceability system put in place
An new electronic system, Food Trak, promises a time saving, low-cost, solution to cater for suppliers' traceability needs.
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Spanish strawberry delay
Cold weather postpones onset of the Spanish strawberry season by two weeks. First arrivals are now scheduled for the second or third week in February.
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HRI to enter into European alliance
Horticulture Research International has secured a European grant to the tune of £124,000, which will result in further developments in organic production.
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Award-winning nursery's entire tomato crop under threat
The entire tomato crop at Arreton Valley Nurseries on the Isle of Wight is under threat following the outbreak of the deadly Pepino Mosaic Virus.
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Manning calls on sector to become more efficient
At the launch of this year's Chilean fresh fruit season, Roger Manning, director general of the Chilean Fresh Fruit Association ö Europe, urged all in the fresh produce to make better use of their resources.
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A fresh new world
Fresh World Limited began trading on January 1 2000. It hopes to usher in a new dawn in the fresh produce industry.
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UK flower producers criticised at HRI conference
Fragmented supply and lack of communication among criticisms levelled at UK producers at last Friday's cut flower conference at HRI Wellsbourne.
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Dutch exporters become first to achieve Florimark
Dutch exporters to the UK are the first to achieve Florimark certification, a quality accreditation from the Dutch floricultural sector.
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South African grape exports crushed by rain
Heavy rains in South Africa decimate white and red grape crop, slicing exports by 60 per cent on pre-season forecasts.
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Campaign for British Produce launched
ProBrit, a campaign for increased awareness for British produce has been launched by a group of 35 glasshouse-salad growers and grower companies in east Yorkshire.
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Scientific findings back organic produce
European research suggests that there are scientific grounds to assume that organic produce is healthier than conventionally produced produce. The Soil Association is expected to release the results later this week.