Naturipe Foods expands, strengthens executive team

The newly formed Vitafoods joins Munger Farms to lead Naturipe Foods into the future with an additional estimated volume of 70 million pounds of available product.

October 02 , 2020

Agricom Chile appoints new CEO as founder retires

Westfalia Fruit International Ltd has announced that Hans Eben has taken on the role of CEO at its fully owned subsidiary Agricom Ltda, one of Chile's leading avocado exporters.

October 01 , 2020

Q&A with Dutch Ambassador to Chile: Lessons to be learned from how the Netherlands manages water

The Netherlands, a nation that has a lot of experience in modernization in horticulture and that, through its ambassador, Harman Idema, is collaborating to tackle the drought in Chile.

October 01 , 2020

New magazine launched for fruit export industry in Chile and Peru

Visión Frutícola, which will be distributed to executives of leading fruit export companies in Chile and Peru, seeks to bring to light the trends affecting the fruit industry, providing analysis of commercial topics and revealing the visions of industry leaders from around the world.

October 01 , 2020

Canada: New greenhouse lighting tech creates year-round produce supplies - Red Sun Farms

North America's leading greenhouse grower says there are three distinct projects underway in support of year-round Ontario grown produce.

September 30 , 2020

Robots gear up to harvest cauliflowers

The job of harvesting cauliflowers could one day be in the mechanical hands of robots thanks to a collaboration between scientists and the French canned vegetable producer Bonduelle.

September 30 , 2020

IQF fruits for a sustainable future

As a result of Covid-19, the demand for frozen food has soared and shows no signs of slowing down, according to food processing equipment company OctoFrost.

September 30 , 2020

Wonderful Company offers $1M for pomegranate waste solution

The Wonderful Innovation Challenge seeks solutions to the 50,000 tons of pomegranate husks generated each year by juicing POM Wonderful pomegranates.

September 29 , 2020

Agronometrics in Charts: Blueberries from Chile and Peru come into season

The charts show how over the last ten years much of the growth of the category has come from southern producers, strategically chasing higher prices that have traditionally been available during the commercial window left outside of North America's harvest.

September 29 , 2020

Scottish fresh food processor partially closed after Covid-19 outbreak

All confirmed cases at Kettle Produce’s facility in Fife are understood to have mild symptoms and are currently self-isolating at home. 

September 29 , 2020