All Flowers articles – Page 79
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Stockbridge Technology Centre under threat from site sale
Major horticultural research centre faces homelessness. Defra bosses open to offers for key North Yorkshire site.
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Whitty samples market life
Minister for the food chain pays his first visit to the government-owned New Covent Garden horticultural wholesale market.
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F&PA to launch amusing ads
The Flower & Plants Association is set to launch a humorous advertising campaign, intended to change women's attitudes to buying flowers.
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HDC announces studentship scheme
A new scheme, initiated by the Horticultural Development Council, aims to provide technically qualified people to work as industry-orientated researchers or growers.
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Red tractor pulls off Chelsea gold
The British Farm Standard has won gold for the National Farmers' Union at the Chelsea Flower Show this week.
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Sheffield gets new market
Wholesalers in the South Yorkshire city have just moved into new premises.
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Research accelerates citrus fruiting
Spanish agronomists have discovered a way of hastening fruiting in citrus trees.
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Dole slips up on bananas
The tricky banana trade is being blamed for Q4 losses at the world's largest fruit and vegetable supplier.
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Green changes squeeze growers
UK growers face extra costs of hundreds of millions of pounds as a result of a gamut of new environmental regulation, according to a National Farmers Union report released at this weeks HortEx 2001 event in Telford.
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MDS alumni have training, will travel
Management Development Services has announced overseas postings for some of its recent graduates.
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Covent Garden turnover on the up
New Covent Garden's report and accounts for 1999/2000 show a sizeable operating surplus.
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New lease of Fyffes
Fyffes has given its Glasgow wholesale market facility a complete overhaul in the past six weeks.
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FPC sets scene for next five years
Representative fresh produce body, the Fresh Produce Consortium, launches its five-year strategy document. It contains ambitious targets for the development of the industry, including the improvement of the free-fruit-for-schools project.
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Fruit returns to Garden
The Chilean Fresh Fruit Association ö Europe unveiled its display at the fourth Covent Garden Flower Festival this week.
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Gardener strips lady of title
Viscountess Villiers gives up title, after falling in love with, and marrying, a gardener.
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hairyape.co.uk goes live
hairyape.co.uk went live this week. The website aims to link fresh fruit, vegetable and flower companies throughout the fresh produce supply chain.
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Brazil bouncing back
Citrus in Brazil is on the road to recovery after some difficult growing conditions early this year.
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Western International in £50 million redevelopment scheme
London-based wholesale market Western International announces plans worth £50m to relocate to an adjacent site.