Melon news archive – Page 49
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ArticleBrazilian melons face challenges
The Brazilian melon sector has faced a number of difficulties over the last few years, including adverse exchange rate movements, high taxation and high port costs.
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ArticleHonduran melon growers on track
Honduran melon exporters managed to supply their UK customers with requested programmes this season, in spite of difficulties with seafreight.
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ArticleNiche lines in for bumpy ride as credit crunch bites
The exotics sector is experiencing its usual summer lull - but insiders believe the situation has been exacerbated this year by poor weather across the UK, and consumers tightening their purse strings. Laura Gould reports.
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Retails blurring traditional category boundaries
It is fascinating to see how what were once clearly defined product sectors on the retail shelf are now becoming more blurred.
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ArticleMurcian watermelon deal suffers setback
This year’s Murcian watermelon crop is set to be 5 per cent lower than the 2007 campaign, due in part to water shortages
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ArticleLemon melon first at Tesco
A melon that tastes like a lemon has hit shelves at Tesco this week.
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Auchan faces watermelon price fine
In Hungary, the French retailer's operation is accused of undercutting watermelon prices
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ArticleBig push for yellow Charentais
Backed by the CINM, a major publicity campaign is in store for France's yellow Charentais melon
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ArticleCosta Rica re-confirms quality edge
Melon and watermelon exports have received the green light on entry to all destination markets so far this year
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ArticleNo melancholy for melons
UK consumers are big melon fans, and the juicy fruit accounts for almost one third of total exotics expenditure, according to TNS. Although the sector has lost some market share to other exotics, it is still a top seller and some £109 million is spent on melons each year, discovers Doris Lee Butterworth
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Identity parade permanent fixture in UK retail aisles
With consumers becoming more price-conscious every week - thanks in no small part to the media - it is beginning to look as if
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ArticleCosta Ricans look to UK
Representatives from Costa Rica were out in force in Europe this week within the framework of the fourth round of negotiations of the Association Agreement between Central America and the European Union.
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Article"Worst" watermelon crop in years
Spanish watermelon growers in the southern region of Almeria have suffered their worst watermelon crop in 25 years, claims a top producer organisation
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New Honduran firm implicated in tainted cantaloupe case
The FDA has put a second company in the frame but is still refusing to publish the results of its investigation into March’s salmonella scare
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ArticleTesco lifts banana price
Tesco increased the retail price of its bananas this week to 77p a kilo on loose fruit - 10p higher than Sainsbury’s, Morrisons or Asda.
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French melons get local support
Melon growers in Tarn-et-Garonne have been buoyed by the signing of an agreement favouring local production
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Japanese watermelons debut in Dubai
Dubai has received its first shipments of Japanese watermelons as part of a Japanese government-backed venture to boost Japan’s produce exports
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ArticleClimate change presents new opportunities, says trade
Predicted radical climate changes may still appear to be a long way off, but eventually they could dramatically alter the fresh produce seasonal calendar, delegates were told at the latest Warwick HRI conference held in London, supported by Defra.
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Climate change throws up intrigue
I came away from yet another conference on the impact of climate change on agriculture and horticulture with the feeling that,
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Spanish counting strike costs
Two weeks on from the Spanish transport strike and growers and exporters are still counting the cost to their business.