All Flowers articles – Page 79
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Solanum unveils Jubilee potato
Potato marketing group Solanum is introducing a new salad potato variety this season to mark the Queen's golden jubilee.
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NFU head to visit HRI
Ben Gill, president of the National Farmers Union to visit HRI, as part of the organisation's campaign to stop government cuts to horticultural R&D funding.
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Top grower tickled pink
A specialist grower of garden pinks receives Grower of the Year Award 2002.
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Customers attack Birmingham wholesale hours
Users of Birmingham wholesale fruit and vegetable market contest its new time regime. It is costing us business, they claim.
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Minnaar joins Greenery
Dutch exporter Minnaar will be joining the Dutch grower-owned Greenery group as a direct distributor of its produce and related imports.
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Vietnam ready to show flower power
Vietnamese government backs flower industry.Quality and volume to boom say sources in far east.
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Israeli merger on
An Israeli parliamentary sub-committee approves agriculture minister Shalom Simhon's proposal to merge the country's production boards.
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Big freeze hits Spain
Low temperatures are set to take their toll on Spanish horticultural production.
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HRI boosts diversity
A new initiative from HRI hopes to help growers in Lincolnshire diversify production.
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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.