Fresh Produce News and Industry
It appears that when the strike breaks out prices of fruits and vegetables will skyrocket tens of percentage points, and maybe even hundreds of percent Vegetable Growers association chairman Meir Yifrach told “Globes” today that the strike by suppliers of fruits and vegetables will take place within two weeks. In the meantime, the “emergency campaign [...]
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JINAN, Oct. 31, 2010 (Xinhua News Agency) — While price hikes of Apple products affects only fans of smartphones and computers, the recent price hikes of apples, the eating kind, has caused concerns among more than one billion people in China. The prices of apples rose to an unprecedented high in late October, which has [...]
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Acrotrema uniflora – a native plant developed into a potted plant Chirita – hybrid created by local scientists It’s spring time for the Sri Lankan floriculture industry while the sector is blooming across the globe particularly in many Asian countries, as a subsistence replacement to agriculture. This is a live, growing industry in the world [...]
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CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The second quarter report made by the Region 10 office of the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) showed that coconut-based products and fresh fruits remained as the region’s major exports, earning $170.97 million. Coconut products represented a share of 63 percent of the regional total, followed by fresh fruits with [...]
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After years of trying, organic hop growers, most clustered in the Northwest, are poised to win a bitter and bizarre battle: requiring organic hops in organic beer. The National Organic Standards Board will take up the issue later this month. Last week, a board subcommittee voted to mandate organic hops in organic beer in about [...]
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Shenandoah Growers of Harrisonburg has completed its $3 million organic greenhouse to handle increased demand for living, organic herbs. The greenhouse, certified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, adds 75,000 square feet of additional growing space. The company supplies fresh herbs to grocery stores around the U.S. The company has added 31 new jobs in [...]
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QUINCY — A late-summer heat wave baked Massachusetts cranberry bogs and dashed hopes of a robust harvest. Higher-than-normal counts of damaged berries are reducing crop yields, which are expected to fall short of the 1.95 million barrels estimated by the USDA in August. “The quality of the crop is in many cases not very good,” [...]
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Earlier maturing fruit this year leaves would-be apple pickers in lurch Lisa Mendoza knew her main priority when she went to County Line Orchard on Monday: Get her hands on Honeycrisp apples. The trees bearing her favorite variety had been picked clean of its fruit, however, as were many of the other apple trees in [...]
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CEDARVILLE- A South Jersey company is not only producing fruits and vegetables, but they’re producing their own electricity to operate. Here at Santa Sweets in Cedarville, they’re creating more than just signature Santa Sweets grape and UglyRipes heirloom tomatoes, they’re making enough electricity to power the operations 200,000 square feet of refrigerated production space. “Today [...]
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Weather-induced farm woes in Canada seem to be going on for longer than anticipated. Initially, wet weather delayed plantings and now, continuous rains have left planted fields flooded in many areas making it almost impossible for harvesters to enter the field. No wonder, harvest has been inordinately delayed. As for pulses, just about a third [...]
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Apimanim(W/R), Sept. 22, GNA- Rubber could be the number one foreign exchange income earner in the next five years, Mr. Marc Genot, Managing Director of Ghana Rubber Estates Limited (GREL), has predicted. Ghana’s reliance on cocoa exports for most of its foreign exchange could soon be replaced by rubber and more people will also live [...]
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A four-member team of cotton growers from Brazil led by Pierre Marie Jeane Patriat, president of Cotton Growers’ Association, Brazil, visited Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) today. In an interactive meeting with Dr Manjit Singh Kang, Vice-Chancellor, PAU, Patriat said they hold PAU in high esteem due to the pivotal role the university played in making [...]
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By Cameron Wilson A shortage of trains has ruled out rail as a transport alternative to move the bumper grains harvest. Queensland, Victoria and New South Wales are short of rail capacity as the east coast prepares for the third biggest winter grains harvest on record. It comes after truck drivers warned they won’t be [...]
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RALEIGH — Organic growers in North Carolina can still apply for partial reimbursement of the cost of becoming certified or recertified producers through a program offered by the N.C. Department of Agriculture arid Consumer Services. “We still have about a third of the grant funds available, so I would encourage organic producers who have gone [...]
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