All Production & Trade articles – Page 1532
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ArticleEE countries still playing catch-up
Eastern European member countries still have a long way to go in meeting the requirements of western supermarkets as far as both good agricultural practice and marketing is concerned. And growers should never lose sight of the fact that food safety is an ongoing discipline.
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Growers encoded on produce packs
Grower images and other useful information are now available to Japanese shoppers with just a swipe of a barcode.
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ArticleSpanish in lemon debacle
There is disagreement in Murcia over official forecast figures for the lemon crop.
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ArticleMitchell's multiple warning
Competition on pricing of English apples among retailers risks future availability, says EA&P's Ian Mitchell.
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ArticleLess is more for Argentina
Less top fruit over this past season and a greater empasis on quality looks to be paying off for Argentina.
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ArticleItaly takes a battering
Rain has continued to belt down in Italy over the past week, putting up to 70 per cent of towns and villages at risk of flooding and causing “incalculable” damage to horticultural crops.
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Foreign gangmasters unchecked as GLA enforcement begins
Gangmaster Licensing Authority chief executive Mike Wilson said this morning [Friday] that the problem of monitoring of labour provision from outside the UK remains unsolved.
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Labour let-down for Israelis
Israeli growers are warning European customers that a labour shortage may compromise their ability to fulfill orders.
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ArticleEurepGAP changes priorities
EurepGAP has committed to prioritising harmonisation in its protocol overhaul following massive pressure from suppliers at its annual conference.
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Local Customs scrapped
The FPC invites comments as local Customs offices are closed in favour of a central hub.
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ArticleAlmeria crops in volume shift
Courgette, cucumber and aubergine area planted in the southern Spanish region of Almeria is increasing at the expense of capsicum and the traditional crop of green beans.
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New food and farming boss at NFU
NFU veteran Kevin Pearce has been appointed as the union’s new head of food and farming.
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ArticleSainsbury's English campaign kicks off
Sainsbury’s kicked off this season’s in-store promotion of English top fruit on Wednesday
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Ahlers questions EurepGAP development
The EurepGAP benchmarking process still throws up some technical problems for suppliers, according to Wolfgang Ahlers of Atlanta Gruppe, Germany.
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Food robotics centre unveiled
The University of Salford has announced the opening of the UK’s first centre for robotics in the food industry.
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Catallix for change in salad washes
British company Catallix is calling on supermarkets to review the “chemical soup” used to wash bagged salads.
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ArticleDole in JP buy-sell
Global fresh produce leader Dole has initiated a buy-sell process to either give it full ownership of JP Fruit Distributors in the UK or to sell its 35 per cent stake.
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ArticleWorld's first compostable, peelable film
Dundee-based packaging specialist Rockwell Solutions has launched the world’s first peelable, compostable film for PLA trays and pots.
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ArticleInvestors buy into EWT
Leading fruit supplier Empire World Trade has had a minority stake of its business bought out by two prolific investors in small to medium-size entities (SMEs).
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Solution to loss of dipping chemical
English apple growers hit with the loss of post-harvest dipping chemical carbendizum could benefit from joint work carried out last season by Bayer CropScience and East Malling Research.