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Organic food production continues a trend of double-digit growth with notable expansion in the U.S. and globally, reported the United States Department of Agriculture. Certified organic operations currently stand at 21,781 in the United States and 31,160 around the world, according to data released April 4 from the Agricultural Marketing Service's National Organic Program (NOP). […]

Pipfruit NZ's Gary Jones challenges global produce industries to treat migratory labor schemes as capability development programs.

The first edition of the Access to Seeds Index has been published, with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Dutch government.

This April 3 more than 28,000 runners participated in one of Chile’s most important athletic events, the Santiago Marathon. Keeping in line with donations made for the marathon in previous years, the Produce Marketing Association contributed 47,000 kg of fruit to athletes. After completing a physically exhausting race that lasts up to 42 km, it’s recommended […]

Banana producers from the Canary Islands came together this week for the first meeting of new cooperative deemed Amigos del Plátano de Canarias, or Friends of Canary Islands Bananas. The group located in La Palma, the most northwestern of the Spanish islands, cited “repeated banana pricing crises on the Peninsula and the consequential drop in […]

Hazera is making significant investments in Israel and the Netherlands to speed up breeding of high performance fruit and vegetable varieties.

When Luis Pacherrez Antón first joined the Piura Center for Small Organic Banana Grower Associations (CEPIBO), he worked in the organization’s warehouses in northern Peru. Five years later, Pacherrez, the son of small-scale banana growers himself, serves as CEPIBO’s general manager. Through a member-driven and cooperative-style system, the organization seeks to empower farmers much like […]

Lisa Cork explains the formation of brand frameworks and strategies that most companies lack.

Chilean kiwifruit producers celebrated the beginning of the 2016 harvest with a March 22 field day to Curicó where gold-colored variety, Soreli, took center stage. At least five orchards of Soreli kiwifruit were harvested in Chile during the third and fourth weeks of March, indicated a press release distributed by Biogold Sudamérica (BGSA). The variety […]

Argentina’s recent change in executive power could result in important developments for agricultural exports. With the citrus season here, Federcitrus president José Carbonell took the time to speak with www.freshfruitportal.com about the industry's expectations for the year. The harvest kicked off recently in the northeast with export Satsuma mandarins, Carbonell explained. “These days we’re starting lemon […]