24/01/2012 14:11
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Juan Bautista Juan, director of the PGI consortium Citricos Valencianos, defines in one word the current citrus campaign in Spain: a disaster. Although the quality is good, he says, demand and prices are very low.
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24/01/2012 13:47
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The Moroccan association APNM will display at Berlin’s Fruit Logistica the Nadorcott seedless tangerine to strengthen foreign markets. 45,000 tons of exports are expected in 2011/2012 compared to 38,600 last year.
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23/01/2012 12:49
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Started this morning, the truck drivers’ protest on the highway between Milan and Bergamo has already created damage to farms. In particular company producing fresh cut salads reports a loss of already 120,000 euros.
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23/01/2012 11:26
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From 2008 to today, Chilean cherry exports have grown significantly thanks to the combination of factors like quality, production and demand. The next season is expected to be very positive for the central area.
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MORE NEWS
The news whose preview we published yesterday is now officially confirmed by the GF Group. The new brand " F.lli Orsero", for extra quality premium bananas and pineapple, is entering the European market in January.
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The Livorno Reefer Terminal continues its promotion after the launch in September 2011. It is the second largest refrigerated warehouse in Italy for fruit and vegetables handling and warehousing.
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Strengthened by a good quality harvest in 2011, a TV campaign in 11 European countries and a consumer game widely relayed in stores, Pink Lady® shows a 17% increase in volumes during the first 10 weeks of the campaign.
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Berlin’s Fruit Logistica exhibition, held from February 8-10, will provide Nunhems with an opportunity to enhance its reputation as an innovator still further this year with a number of new developments unveiled on its stand (A-06 in Hall 1.2).
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LETTER OF THE WEEK
THE GLOBALIZED WORLD HAS NEW PROTAGONISTS
Publication date: 2012-01-20The long and severe crisis in the Countries that have dominated the world economy over the last sixty years is in contrast to the stability and in some cases the constant growth of emerging Countries. This phenomenon seems to mark a sea change. The globalized world has new protagonists. This is what Douglas McWillis, founder of the British research institute CEBR, commented, in mid-January, on Brazil’s conquest of the sixth position among the economic powers in the world: "Brazil has beaten European countries at football for years, but beating them at economy is something totally new. Our chart shows how the economic map of the world is changing, with Asian countries and producers of raw materials leading the ... read more
Sentence of the Week
"Today Spanish fruit is sold at our production cost. This is intolerable and we can not resist any longer. Farmers have to participate in the product's added value"
(Mampel Ramon, manager of the Spanish organization La Unio
during the act of protest in front of a discount chain on Jan. 12)
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