All Production & Trade articles – Page 1512
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Forum of Private Business blasts "smoke and mirrors" Budget
The Forum of Private Business (FPB) has slammed Chancellor Gordon Brown’s Budget as “smoke and mirrors” that will do little but create more red tape for small businesses to deal with.
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NFU homes in on Budget stings
The Budget has stung farmers with an increase in car tax for band-G vehicles and increases on red diesel duties, according to the National Farmers’ Union (NFU), but also offered a number of opportunities.
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Pakistan has sights set on international markets
Fresh produce exports are a priority for Pakistan, according to an official in its Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock (MINFAL) this week, and the government has taken a number of steps to increase its exports to international markets.
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Article10-year lease seals Dover's fruit future
Dover Harbour Board and local stevedore George Hammond plc have signed a 10-year agreement which paves the way for greater throughput of palletised fresh produce at the port of Dover’s deep-sea cargo terminal.
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PIP expands staff training scheme
The EU-funded Pesticides Initiative Programme (PIP) has rolled out its field training workshops to some 10 ACP countries in recent months, following a successful pilot experience carried out in Senegal in 2006.
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EU targets empower farmers
Energy-farming is set to become a reality, in line with new proposals from the EU.
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Ethiopia receives horticultural boost
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has allocated 400,000 hectares of land for fruit, vegetable and horticulture producers in the country’s Rift Valley, Dire Dawa, Dedesa Valley and Tana Belese Corridors.
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ArticleM&S label carbon
Marks & Spencer is to begin labelling food that has been imported to the UK by air in a bid to raise consumer awareness of food miles.
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ArticleWaste directory helps with disposal
The government has launched a waste directory to show farmers and horticultural businesses where to find licensed sites for recycling or disposing of their waste.
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ArticlePolytunnel decision may cover more than previously thought
Herefordshire fruit growers have reportedly held crisis talks with their local council after they were told they would have to apply for planning permission to put up polytunnels.
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Cornwall cashes in on early 'gus
Cornwall has been discovered by UK supermarkets as a potential major source for early asparagus. The first of the crop was being sold by Marks & Spencer, Tesco and Sainsbury’s this week.
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Bomfords under scrutiny since April 2005
Mark Boleat, chairman of the Association of Labour Providers, says that the practices of vegetable supplier Bomfords had been under scrutiny for some time before the recent action by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) against seven of its labour providers.
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ArticleUK gras makes early appearance at Co-op
New-season British asparagus hit the shelves at The Co-operative on Monday - almost a month earlier than usual.
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Italian sector needs young blood injection
Youngsters are thin on the ground in Italy’s agricultural industry, according to the country’s observatory for entrepreneurial resources in the agricultural sector (Oiga).
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Ministry to maintain support system
France’s Ministry of Agriculture has announced that the government will maintain current aids to support farmers on the elimination of obsolete fruit trees.
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New kids on block snapping at old heels
A group of healthy and relatively small companies are taking the fresh produce industry by storm and showing the big boys how it’s done, according to research released by industry analyst Plimsoll Publishing.
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Sri Lankan fruit fly could devastate African crops
A fruit fly native to Sri Lanka is invading Africa at an alarming speed, according to the EU-funded scheme Pesticides Initiative Programme (PIP), attacking various fruit species and market garden produce.
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Durham opens the book on Fairtrade
Durham has become one of the first towns in the UK to have its own ‘Fairtrade Directory’.
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Packaging Automation storms Oz
UK manufacturer Packaging Automation is seeing high levels of interest for its convenience packaging equipment in Australia, as demand for ready meals, prepared fruit and vegetables and salads continues to grow.
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ArticleYorkshire: the Garden of England?
Former NFU President Graham Ward suggests that global warming is turning the north east into the ‘new garden of England’.