Peruvian mango campaign reaches 43% of shipments

Industry members projected a decrease of 76% in production volumes compared to last season.

January 22 , 2024

Chilean grape export season opening with good numbers

Uvanova Vice President Carolina Cruz tells FreshFruitPortal.com that the central producing regions are significantly early, particularly in shorter vegetative cycle cultivars such as the white Superior and Thomson varieties.

January 22 , 2024

Peruvian fruit to access eight new markets in 2024

Orlando Dolores, general director of plant health for Senasa, anticipates 13 new international market accesses for Peruvian agricultural products this year.

January 19 , 2024

Lemon overproduction crisis: "This critical situation has been going on for five years"

Last year Argentina's lemon exports fell to around 235,000 tons, of which 78,000 went to the United States and 120,000 to the European Union.

January 18 , 2024

Ecuador: Fruit industry faces civil unrest but works to maintain exports

Given the current situation in the country, we spoke with some actors in the agro-export industry to learn their opinions, the actions they are taking, and whether the sector has been affected by the acts of violence.

January 17 , 2024

Bankrupt Prima Wawona to liquidate assets

The firm filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Oct. 13, in a bid to facilitate the sale of the company.

January 16 , 2024

Florida orange crop to rise 30% year-on-year

Weather damage has long plagued Florida’s citrus production, with the 2017-2018 season heavily affected by Hurricane Irma, and Hurricanes Ian and Nicole causing a similar effect during 2022-2023 season.

January 15 , 2024

Chilean cherry shipments to the U.S. to drop 30%

Last season, Chile shipped around 3.3 million boxes of cherries to the U.S. So far this season, around 1.8 million boxes have arrived, and the total projection for this season is about 2.3 million.

January 12 , 2024

Dole expands tropical fruit shipping capacity

The service, which officially started Dec. 31, 2023, will deploy two 1,200 FEU container vessels, MV Robin-2, and MV Robin-5 in a 14-day rotation.

January 10 , 2024

Table grapes: Peru volumes drop this season

Optimistic headlines are being shared in in the Peruvian press because a comparison is being made with the previous season, in the same months and, due to the early harvest of the current season.