92 issue

Profile of the month

A bird’s eye view of La Axarquía

Sigfrido had proposed flying up to the heavens in a gyroplane, a machine that he became infatuated with in full pandemic and which, now, in addition to being a hobby, has become his means of transport because it allows him to save a great deal of time when moving from place to place.

ecologic

CAERM, nominated at the Eco & Organic Retail Awards

The nomination comes in the category as best Marketing Campaign for promoting ecological products.

Red tape: slowing down Farm to Fork

Time is running out, but the European Commission is still not streamlining the procedures for certifying biocontrol products, which are essential to promote the ‘green’ route.

Cricket foresees reaching 200 has in bio

The company has a growth strategy that will continue over the next 3 years .

Keops: fruit and vegetables at their highest form

The company from Almeria is 100% ecological and it has the regenerative farming stamp Epigen Healthy Bite, guaranteeing the highest natural form of its produce.

Blank billboard posters in the subway station for advertising

The CAECV, nominated for its promotion and consumption campaigns

The Ecological Agricultural Committee of the Valencian Community (CAECV) has been nominated for the Eco & Organic Retail Awards in the category of Best Marketing Campaign for the promotion of ecological produce.

Ecological islands, the winning formula from Almaverde Bio

The “Isola” project, which consists of maintaining separate, clearly signed islands of ecological produce in Italian distribution centres, continues harvesting successes.

seeds

Abundance of material with resistance to ToBRFV from Syngenta

The company has added two new developments in orange plum cherry tomatoes to its 10 varieties with intermediate resistance to ToBRFV and next autumn it will add another two varieties that are very similar to Caniles.

HREZ: supply, flavour and quality with resistance to ToBRFV

Enza Zaden has a complete portfolio of varieties resistant to ToBRFV in all the main tomato types.

ISI Sementi is strengthening tomato investment in Iberia

They are already making crosses in Almeria to see hybrids in the surroundings and reach the market earlier.

Arondir, the latest from Top Seeds

This plum tomato maintains its firmness in spite of its size and stands out for its early harvesting.

Romancero F1: excellent in vine version

The seed company Ramiro Arnedo emphasises this vine tomato variety, as well as the aubergine Serafina F1 .

A new era at Vilmorin-Mikado

After Fullpro F1 and Fusapro F1, the company is extending its new generation rootstock portfolio with GoPro F1

HM.CLAUSE is completing its tomato catalogue

The seed company has added two cherry tomato varieties with resistance to ToBRFV, two plum tomatoes, and it continues to grow with its RAF-hearted Marmande

De Ruiter®: greater safety in rootstock

The brand from Bayer is developing materials with genetics that will bring larger root systems and greater protection against nematodes in highly infected soils.

Tomatoes from Intersemillas: ‘Your allies for controlling ToBRFV’

With this slogan, the seed company is presenting two new varieties of vine tomato resistant to this troublesome virus.

More Curdivex with Suertex

Bayer is completing its cauliflower range under the umbrella brand of Curdivex, with a variety for 100-105 day cycles.

Auxiliary Industry

Italy directly opposes the PPWR

Organisations such as Ortofrutta Italia and Pro Food are joining forces to try to reverse the elimination of packaging set forth in the future EU legislation.

Dibal’s productivity control solution

It is a complete hardware and software solution, aimed at companies with hand filling processes, normal in the fruit and vegetable growing and canning sector.

Gregal, the 360 technological partner for agriculture

The technological solutions company has answers for the entire fruit and vegetable growing process, from the fields to the distribution, passing through processing and preparation centres.

More Orius against the rise in T.parvispinus

Faced with the rise in temperatures, Koppert recommends relying on the support of predator mites and carrying out mass trapping using blue plates.

Agromark reduces its carbon footprint with Tosca

Innovative reusable packaging solution from Tosca preserves broccoli quality while reducing reverse logistics of Spanish export specialist.

Benedetta Ricci Iamino_Global Category Director for Cherries at TOMRA Food

Tomra is improving cherry processing

TOMRA’s cherry solutions have a great effectiveness in performing every important task on the line: infeed, sorting, grading, filling, packing, and product traceability.

FEDEMCO is committed to recycling

The creation of the Ecowoox® brand is an important step forward on this point and it is ahead of the new legislation that will come into effect in 2025

events

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Another edition of the International Red Berry Congress

This meeting, which will be held on the 20th and 21st of June in Huelva, has opened its inscription period

distribution

Asda plans 5% pay cut

Supermarket is consulting about removing a 60p an hour supplement at 39 stores .

onion

Bejo is launching Yakama, its first yellow, single-centred onion

The seed company is also incorporating Revolution (BGS 374), which they define as “out of the ordinary” in yield, flavour, skin quality and hardiness.

melon and watermelon

We are longing for a campaign that is normalised from production to consumption”

The chairman of the melon sector at Proexport, José Cánovas, explains to Fruit Today magazine how the water shortage and the ever-changing weather conditions, both at source and at the destinations, are marking the melon campaign. His wish is clear: normalisation.

Don Gregorio: Sakata’s first variety for greenhouses

Sakata is landing in Almeria with a greenhouse melon that is no different from melons grown in the open air

‘Freshly Forward’, by Rijk Zwaan

The seed company is holding a new edition of the Global Melon & Watermelon Event at the end of the month.

The 10th Melon & Watermelon Week is here

The event has returned to its original location, where for the first time visitors will be able to see melon and watermelon materials in the same space.

Graciano: the highest percentage of first category fruit

Syngenta’s piel de sapo melon is becoming consolidated in Almeria due to its yield, uniformity and high percentage of top-quality fruit.

stone fruits

PSB, 25 years serving agriculture

The family-run company, both a plant variety breeder and producer, is celebrating its 25th anniversary as a market leader in the stone fruit variety selection segment (peaches, nectarines and apricots).

Europe is experiencing a fast variety change

The first cherries, the extra-early ones do not have the best characteristics for the markets and the sector has gone to work on variety improvement.

Jerte cherries will reduce their water consumption

The construction of a water purification plant in the Jerte Valley intends to reduce water consumption by 60%.

Some European stone fruit forecasts should be “taken with a pinch of salt”

More than ever, the forecasts made by Europêch for this campaign are pending a future review that will take place in mid-June

Catalonian production drops 5% due to the drought

This figure has been calculated taking into account the effects caused by the water shortage, and the production of the hectares irrigated by the Urgell canal has been eliminated.

The drought has also reached Aragon’s cherries

The two sides of the Aragonese cherry campaign: from the frosts in the previous campaign, to the drought in the current season. Both of these weather phenomena will condition the market

Chile: the world’s export and research centre

Chile is the largest exporter of cherries in the world, with a record-breaking figure of 415,315 tonnes dispatched in the 2022-2023 season and a 16.5% growth compared to the previous campaign
In the September, 2022 USDA report it estimates that cherries are one of the productions with the largest growth worldwide due to the contributions by Turkey and Chile.