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A home-grown fruit that looks like a grape-sized watermelon but tastes like a cucumber has been launched at high-end British grocer Waitrose.

Washington State-based Vanguard has purchased one of Peru's leading growers of grapes, citrus and pomegranates.

While volumes have risen and periodic market crashes can occur, Avi Crane believes the existence of avocados is a matter of "Devine intervention".

South African citrus producers have again made a tough decision in order to mitigate the risk of losing their foothold in Europe.

The largest integrated grower-shipper of citrus in the U.S. has made acquisitions in Texas and Mexico to bolster its lime operations.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) will soon announce an overhaul of the rule-making process for its Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), the agency confirmed. APHIS serves as the regulatory body responsible for protecting U.S. agricultural health, which includes the implementation of phytosanitary rules to guide import and export procedures. In carrying […]

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a Draft Pest Risk Assessment for South African avocados Friday. The announcement comes under the request of the South African government that its fresh avocados be permitted for import into the entire United States. The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) reported it had identified seven quarantine […]

An Indian-German partnership that connects smallholder grape farmers with Europe has seriously gathered pace this year. As German fruit supplier Don Limón heads towards the latter stages of its grape export campaign, tonnage has significantly increased compared with the first harvests last year. "This year we have expanded our volume up to 32 containers as […]

Farmers in the Western Cape are getting a bird’s-eye view of their fields, thanks to a new industry buzzing through the province’s airways. Legislation to normalize South Africa’s drone operations went into effect in mid-2015, providing a framework for the unmanned aircraft industry to get off the ground. Cape Town’s UAV Industries serves as the […]

New Zealand kiwifruit distributor Zespri has implemented a precautionary hold on fruit potentially compromised at a Chinese packing house, the company confirmed. Senior communications adviser Rachel Lynch emphasized in an email response that none of the lots in questions have left Zespri facilities. “All potentially affected product is on hold in Zespri’s inventory,” Lynch emphasized […]