Tomato news archive – Page 92
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Israel licks frosty wounds
Growers in Israel are still assessing the extent of crop damage caused by last week’s sub-zero temperatures in the Arava Valley.
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ArticleFarmers win breakfast challenge
A group of three farmers won the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) supported Breakfast Challenge held to celebrate the Farmhouse Breakfast Week 2008 at Hammersmith and West London College on Tuesday.
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ArticleResistance holds key
The UK seed breeding industry is both a competitive and challenging one. Selecting the right variety is vital to growers, retailers and consumers alike and, with the fresh produce industry’s ever-increasing list of demands, seed breeders have a tall order to continue to deliver the goods. Elizabeth O’Keefe reports.
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ArticleIsrael’s finest gather at Tel Aviv forum
Israeli fresh produce exporters, farmers, technology companies and agricultural bigwigs arrived en masse in Tel Aviv last week for the 18th outing of the country’s annual Agro-Mashov trade fair. Laura Gould was among the visitors.
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ArticleArava frosts cause severe damage
Temperatures as low as -4°C on Monday night have caused severe damage to crops in the Arava Valley in Israel.
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ArticleVolumes down in Rungis
Figures to the end of November 2007 showed tonnages for both fruit and veg down at the Parisian wholesale market.
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NIAB Moldova mission snowed off
A planned agricultural aid trip to Moldova by a team of scientific experts from the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) has been postponed at the last minute due to treacherous snow in the eastern European country.
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ArticleFully functional
The market for functional foods has been billed as one of the most promising for 2008, with UK shoppers eager to tuck in to what they are told is good for them, spurred on by the annual health-kick season. Fresh produce has become a key ingredient in the functional food sector. Anna Sbuttoni reports.
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ArticleHazera set to play ACE card
Israeli seed breeder Hazera Genetics is preparing to launch its ACE pepper variety under the Hazera Vitalis brand at Fruit Logistica in Germany this February.
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Syngenta paints the sprouts red
Crop developer Syngenta’s new range of red Brussels sprouts will be on supermarket shelves by the end of this year.
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ArticleHelping the Moldovans at onions
A team of scientific experts from the National Institute of Agricultural Botany will visit Moldova next month, the poorest country in Europe, and set up an agricultural aid site.
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ArticleEarly Moroccan exports up 41 per cent
Exports of early fruits and vegetables from Morocco had reached 181,000 tonnes by December 16, a 41 per cent rise on the 128,000t exported to the same date last year, said the north African country’s ministry of agriculture.
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Morrisons acts to reduce waste
We all like turkey sandwiches, and some of us even guzzle cold sprouts, but Morrisons has introduced recipe cards to reduce the 230,000 tonnes of food wasted over Christmas.
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ArticleCapital gains
Farming is not the first thing that springs to mind when you think of London, but more than eight per cent of the capital’s land is occupied with food production. Elizabeth O’Keefe finds out what fresh produce London growers offer and how the buy-local trends is being encouraged throughout London’s boroughs.
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Veg and citrus star buys in countdown to Christmas
One thing for certain - apart from the imminent arrival of Christmas - is that retail tickets gave every impression of being
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ArticleIntense time for Nunhems
Seed breeder Nunhems’ Intense™ tomato has been nominated for the Fruit Logistica Innovation Award 2008.
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ArticleGreenery UK ready for post-Christmas rush
The Greenery is preparing for a very short healthy eating boom immediately after Christmas by ramping up supplies of salads for the New Year.
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ArticleWhich? points to produce rip-off
A Which? Magazine survey claims today that shoppers are being ripped off when buying premium fruit and vegetable lines in the big four.
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ArticleWater flows to forefront
Until recently, water-use efficiency (WUE) was not a big issue for many growers in the UK. There were few restrictions on water abstraction and the cost was negligible. But climate change, competition for water between different users and new regulations have changed all that, and brought WUE to the forefront of growers’ minds. In part two of Warwick HRI’s climate change series for FPJ, Dr Andrew Thompson tells us how to stay afloat.
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Fruit and veg prices soar by 23 per cent
The price of fruit and vegetables has reached its highest point in three years, with a typical basket of fresh produce costing 23 per cent more than it did in July.