The European production of apricots, peaches and nectarines is estimated to be lower than last season. This is due, on the one hand, to long-term developments, and on the other hand, to the weather conditions ahead of the harvest, including a mild winter (which is not very good for the apricots) and a late frost […]
Read MoreIn Poland, retailer Biedronka has been accused of misleading buyers by selling fruits and vegetables from other countries, while indicating that they were domestic products, as reported by TVP Info. It is worth noting that Biedronka is a network with more than 3 thousand discount stores in more than a thousand locations in Poland. […]
Read MoreThe coronavirus pandemic has changed the routine and well-established ideas of people about almost all areas of life. Andriy Yarmak, an economist at the Investment Center of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) writes how it affected the food industry in his blog on Eastfruit.com. In the first part of the […]
Read MoreThe price of greenhouse tomatoes in Poland continued to fall last week, despite a reduction in the supply on the market, say analysts of the EastFruit project. Representatives of Polish greenhouse plants reported that the demand in this segment was very small, which has prevented producers from keeping prices at last week’s level. In […]
Read MoreThe coronavirus pandemic has changed the routine and well-established ideas of people about almost all areas of life. Andriy Yarmak, an economist at the Investment Center of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) writes how it affected the food industry in his blog on Eastfruit.com. Due to the rapidly changing situation […]
Read MoreAccording to a preliminary assessment of berry growers in the village of Kunicha (Dondusheni district), about 30-70% of the crops have been lost. Considering that the town has been producing and exporting up to 1 thousand tons of strawberries over the past few years (almost a third of the total seasonal export of these berries […]
Read MoreEastFruit analysts can now officially confirm that the world ranking of blueberry exporters has received a new leader – Peru. A comparison of official blueberry export data from Chile and Peru now confirms this information. In 2019, while Chilean blueberry producers struggled with drought and water shortages, trying to keep production and export volumes […]
Read MoreThe Spanish import of fruits and vegetables in January 2019 grew by 11% in terms of volume and by 26% in terms of value compared to the same month of 2018, totaling 287,263 tons and 257.3 million Euro, according to data from the Department of Customs and Special Taxes of the Spanish Tax Agency, processed […]
Read MoreAt the moment, prices for tomatoes in Ukraine are on average 40% higher than last year. Furthermore, there are no prerequisites for a significant reduction in the cost of these products on the Ukrainian market. Industry experts argue that they have a sufficiently limited supply of tomato on the Ukrainian market. In particular, deliveries […]
Read MoreAccording to the Association of Agricultural Producers’ Guilds of Peru (AGAP), Peruvian agricultural exports in the first two months of the year amounted to US $ 1.118 billion, i.e. 6% higher than in the same period of 2018. This increase was driven by the fresh fruits and vegetables sub-sector, whose shipments in January and […]
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