All Fruit articles – Page 140
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ArticleWhere next for Belgian horticultural research?
Located in Flanders, Belgium’s vegetable heartland, the Research Station for Vegetable Production has 60 years’ experience in translating academic research into practical knowledge for greenhouse and open-field growers. Fred Searle speaks to its director Els Berckmoes about the challenges for producers and what the non-profit is doing to help
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ArticleCould Britain learn from Belgium's auction system?
Severe shortages in fresh produce have refocused attention on the pitfalls of UK supermarkets’ preference for seasonal contracts. Fred Searle travels to Belgium to see how the country’s fruit and vegetable auctions do things differently
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ArticleBelgium’s UK export mission
Rather than prompting Belgium to focus its efforts on other markets, Brexit has seen the country actively target export growth in Britain. Fred Searle crosses the Channel to find out how and why
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ArticleDel Monte makes Israel kiwifruit move
Group completes the first sale of its Greece-grown kiwifruit in Israel as it aims to reinforce brand awareness in the country
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ArticleAutomating Australian protected cropping
New indoor cropping-focused project to work on smart solutions for managing horticultural crops
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ArticleSingrow announces expansion
Singapore-based agri-genomics firm opens R&D facility and reveals plans for further Asian expansion
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ArticleLEAF announces new CEO
David Webster joins the sustainable farming group as CEO in September from the UK grocery division of Associated British Foods where he is sustainability director
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ArticleThe Natural Fruit Company goes solar
Company to invest in 6,000m2 solar park at its orange packhouse in Alzira to cut CO2 emissions
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ArticleRoyal looks ahead to positive stonefruit campaign
Increased volumes of Royal Sanguina expected following strong demand from European retailers
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ArticleFirst Philippine durians arrive in China
Inaugural shipment marks the opening of the China market for Philippine durian industry
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ArticleWest Australian apple event attracts global audience
Three-day event includes expert speakers, orchard tours and technology showcase
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ArticleDole launches ‘sweetest pineapple ever’
Costa Rica-grown Dole Golden Selection Pineapples said to have ’a deeper golden colour, more aromatic fragrance and sweeter and juicier tropical flavour’
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ArticleChilean cherry exports set new record
Volume of shipments rises to 415,315 tonnes thanks to recovery in Chinese demand
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ArticleDefra awards £9.13m to agri-robotics
Projects on robotic crop harvesting, a new way of cultivating potatoes and an autonomous cow bedding system are to receive share of funding
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ArticleFreskon brings southeastern Europe together
Freskon is back in Thessaloniki, Greece, on 23-25 April with an exhibition, a congress dedicated to citrus and a hosted buyers programme
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ArticleNew partnership for Rajat IG Biotech
Indian joint venture partners with Dr YS Parmar University to produce and market clean planting material
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ArticleThai fruit goes on show
Government department partners with retailers to promote domestic sales as Thai fruit production rises
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ArticleTiming key to sustainability success, says Vanoirbeek
Producers in Belgium back the aims of the EU’s Farm to Fork strategy, according to Luc Vanoirbeek, general secretary of the Association of Belgian Horticultural Cooperatives (VBT), as long as they are ”affordable, realistic and fair”
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ArticlePoste Italiane launches fresh produce delivery service
Italian postal service group wants to expand its logistics business so it can capitalise on increased demand for home delivery of fresh food
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ArticleChina says yes to Ecuadorean pitahayas
Ecuador is seeking new export markets as pitahaya production continues to grow