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APHIS has removed Costa Rica from a list of countries from which imports of parts of banana plants are now prohibited, following a complaint from the Central American country.

Volumes of kiwifruit from California and Chile were both down by nearly 70 percent in April, leading to the highest shipping point pricing in years.

Perishable Pundit Jim Prevor recently chatted with branding expert Lisa Cork, who said that in the "upcoming decade we’re going to need different skills and different brand tools to position ourselves for success".

Trops, the largest producer of Spanish avocado, has teamed up with digital agriculture company AgriSmart Data in a project that it claims has been able to reduce the amount of water trees need by half.

The USDA has forecast that New Zealand's apple exports will end up around 14 percent down year-on-year despite earlier expectations of a near-record season.

The USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced on Thursday that it was prohibiting imports of certain plant parts of all banana and plantain species from numerous countries, including Costa Rica.

Australian growers say containers of fresh table grapes that would normally clear China's customs authorities in one or two days have been delayed by up to 20 days, sometimes without refrigeration.

Global volumes of produce trade have seen a decline since the peak was reached in 2018, down to 87 million tons of global trade in 2020, a tendency explained as an overall deceleration in the growth of booming categories, which has now been accentuated by pandemic disruptions over the past season. 

The multinational fruit supplier says that all regions, with the exception of the Eastern Cape, are showing an increase in overall citrus variety volumes.

Cold weather is allowing the Spanish strawberry harvest to continue at full capacity, offsetting the losses that were seen during the spring months.