All Production & Trade articles – Page 1250
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ArticleAustralia braces for Chinese apples
With the final risk assessment on Chinese apple exports to Australia due this month, the industry is feeling the winds of change
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ArticleDutch coops mull over merger
Dutch cooperatives ZON and Royal FruitmastersGroup are currently looking at the possibility of forming a merger
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ArticleThe Greenery coop becomes Coforta
Dutch cooperative changes name to reflect new commercial relationship with trading company The Greenery BV
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ArticleFlorida grapefruit yields fall short
The spell of freezing temperatures the US endured last month is predicted to cut grapefruit yields by 13 per cent
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ArticleFresca to open new topfruit venture
British fresh produce group Fresca has announced the opening of a new topfruit division of its Mack Multiples business
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Chilean citrus benefits from Purfresh
Trials show that citrus growers using Purshade plant protectant suffer considerably less damage from sunburn
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ArticleVI.P sees upturn in apple markets
Sales said to be recovering well as prices in a number of key European markets rebound, says leading Italian marketer
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ArticleAustralian cherries shipped to Korea
The first ever consignments of Australian cherries left for Korea this week, as officials now target table grape access
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ArticleCoosemupar to be closed down
Troubled Panamanian banana export cooperative Coosemupar is being closed by the company’s government due to spiralling debts
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ArticleApofruit Italia signs reorganisation deal
Company reaches agreement with labour unions following four months of wrangling over proposed structural changes
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ArticleNew Zealand and India in talks
Negotiations are underway between New Zealand and Indian government officials to organise a free trade agreement
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ArticleNew threat to St Lucia bananas
Officials discover two suspected cases of fungal disease Black Sigatoka, the first such instances to be found on the island
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ArticleRed Globes regain MO exemption
The table grape variety will no longer be subject to USDA marketing order regulations in order to gain access to the US
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ArticleImporter Paganini in bankruptcy move
US importer of Italian fruit files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a New Jersey court
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ArticleWAPA publishes apple and pear forecast
Southern Hemisphere apple production set to remain more or less the same as last year, while predicted pear volumes plummet
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ArticleChile to ramp up US business
Sending of fresh citrus from the South American country to the US are tipped to increase almost fourfold this year
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ArticleDole sees debt rating upgraded
Moody's upgrades US multinational's debt to a higher degree of junk status amid an improved operating performance
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ArticleArgentina launches lemon quality seal
The new standard is designed to set apart Argentinean lemons on the market as a high quality and safe product
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"Limited" aid for frost-hit Irish
Some state aid is to be provided for potato and other vegetable growers in the Irish Republic who were hard hit by the recent big freeze.
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ArticleZespri cues up new variety decision
Zespri will decide in June whether it will commercialise new varieties from its breeding programme