All Production & Trade articles – Page 1431
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ArticleBean growers must beware 'chocolate spot'
Bean growers are being advised by BASF to keep a close eye on the weather conditions for ‘chocolate spot’ disease.
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ArticleCapespan back in the groove
Capespan UK’s annual results for 2006 - out this week - show a return to form for the importer after a difficult year in 2005.
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HTA looks to involve women
The HTA is launching a new initiative aimed at getting more women involved in horticulture.
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ArticleInnovation nets Anglia top billing
Anglia Business Solutions won the Innovation of the Year award, sponsored by the Chilean Fresh Fruit Industry, for its work on system LabelCheck.
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ArticleSpania Fresh is Importer of the Year
Spania Fresh won the Christian Salvesen sponsored Importer of the Year award at this year’s Re:fresh. Specialising in the production, handling and distribution of high quality tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers, the importer workers in partnership with its network of grower groups in Holland, mainland Spain and the Canary Islands, as well as the UK.
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ArticleFoodservice award goes to Chef's Connection
Chef’s Connection was the deserved winner of the JP Fresh Foodservice Supplier of the Year award. Despite its growth and success, Chef’s Connection has remained entirely dedicated to its core ethos - supplying friendly, personal customer service of the very highest degree.
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ArticleO'Connor clinches young hort trophy
Jimmy O’Connor has been crowned Young Horticulturist of the Year in the Institute of Horticulture’s annual competition.
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ECPA lobbies MEPs to save crops
The European Crop Protection Association (ECPA) is lobbying MEPs to “cast a vote for the range and variety of fruits and vegetables which make up Europe’s dining tables every day”.
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ArticleCTFA looking forward to crop revival
Californian peach, nectarine and plum growers are holding out for a 50.5 million-container crop this season. That is slightly larger than last year’s 47.5m containers, although down on 2004 and 2005 volumes, which stood at 50.8m and 50.9m containers respectively
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Spud fraud uncovered by Trading Standards
Trading Standards has unearthed cases in which imported potatoes have been sold as British product following checks on 32 shops and stores in South Wales.
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ArticleBayer launches Chishill bio-diversity site
Bayer Cropscience officially launched its Chishill biodiversity site at a packed event last week.
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ArticleGrowers to get phone line cash
Growers with telephone wires running over their land are set for a cash boost after the NFU and CLA secured a deal with Energis, now owned by Cable & Wireless.
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Exosect welcomes Defra grant
Environmentally sound pest control provider Exosect has been awarded a grant from Defra to facilitate a joint research project with the International Pesticide Application Research Centre (IPARC), Dow AgroSciences and Micron Sprayers into commercial development of a new spray technology.
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City youngsters to get first taste of rural life
A bumper green grant will see London schoolchildren making some of their first trips to the countryside to see how their food is produced.
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Fruit in the office a reality with Freshfel
European fresh produce association Freshfel Europe has launched a charter to improve health in the workplace by increasing the availability of fruit and vegetables for employees and visitors at work.
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EU must wait for biotech clarification
Europe's farmers will not see any more clarity on EU rules for separating traditional, organic and biotech crops until at least 2009.
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Airfreight issue loses impetus
Kenya is one step closer to winning the battle to protect its huge European market, in the face of a campaign mounted by UK supermarkets to ban product over food mile concerns.
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ArticleBudgens boosts British base
Independent retailer Budgens is to throw its weight behind British Food Fortnight for the fourth year running.
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Technology key to Vietnamese exports
A disappointing production of fruit and vegetables in Vietnam this year and therefore low export turnover, has made the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) adjust its national programme on developing production and exports of fruit and vegetables.
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ArticleGrowers criticise assurance schemes
Irritated growers have voiced their frustrations about complications they say are being added to assured produce schemes.