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PRESS RELEASE Portland, Oregon  -  Meals on Wheels People, a food relief organization serving meals to food insecure seniors in the Greater Portland region, and IFCO Systems, the world’s leading provider of Reusable Plastic Containers (RPCs) for fresh food packaging, today announced IFCO is donating 600 RPCs to Meals on Wheels that will allow volunteers […]

Large and aggressive swarms of these crop-devouring short-horned insects have invaded more than two dozen districts covering more than 50,000 hectares of desert areas of western India.

The California-based company has developed a plant-derived coating that is sprayed onto freshly harvested produce to reduce water loss and prevent oxygen from getting in. This increases the shelf life by up to triple, helping to cut down on food waste.

Clementines will be the first fruit to arrive this month at the New York port, with more easy peelers and some Navel oranges will follow with the first conventional vessel arriving in Philadelphia.

It appears to be the Portland area’s biggest workplace outbreak thus far, excluding the healthcare sector.

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to volumes of Peruvian asparagus in the U.S. sharply falling, resulting in a big spike in prices.

Nielsen says the retail environment that consumers face and the disposable money they have in their pockets to spend will be vastly different from the world they knew pre-lockdown. 

Numerous E. coli outbreaks late last year that sickened nearly 200 people who ate California-grown romaine lettuce were likely due to cattle operations near the fields, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said.

With airlines increasing their freight charges by as much as 166% to Rs 250 (US$3.30) per kilo, trade has taken a hit, exporters said.

The Argentine Government has canceled all commercial flights until Sept. 1, which could cause problems for the early fruit harvested in August.