FRUIT AND VEGETABLE NEWS
Tribelli, flavour and 12-month supply
The most extensive portfolio of sweet conical peppers on the market adds new varieties with resistance to powdery mildew and allows a 12-month coverage, also with XL materials.
Top Seeds Ibérica extends its range
The seed company is preparing a worldwide portfolio that includes IR to ToBRFV and it continues to extend its offer in peppers, cucumbers, and now also in broccoli.
Sorma’s new vine tomato weighing machine
With this fast, high-performing machine the company provides a solution for automating set-weight tray filling, optimising production times and saving labour.
The third year promoting Envy apples
During the 2022/23 period, the communication about the sublimity of this apple is being closely accompanied by different actions aimed at the end consumers.
Proexport strengthens its lines in Berlin
According to Mariano Zapata, the organisation’s President, “this year our goal is to strengthen the market share held by agriculture from the Region of Murcia and south-eastern Spain in Europe, at the same time as extending sales to other markets outside Europe.”
Andalusia wants to bridge the important gap between production and consumption
The Andalusian Government is starting procedures for the draft bill of its Ecological Promotion Law to minimise the difference between eco production (29.7% of the total surface area) and consumption (2.3%)
“Domestic consumption must increase”
Spain is second in the European ranking of ecological producers; however, its consumption is not in line with the figures
Stability of bio in Italy
Italian bio generated 5,000 million euros in sales up to June 2022 and it exported produce for a value of 1,000 million euros, 53% more than in 2021
‘A good reason for a stand in Berlin
Campo de Lorca/Cricket is coming to FruitLogistica with an extensive offer that includes its Cricket BIO range, for which they have 100 hectares under reconversion
Koppert is launching ‘Biodiversity Packs’
These are batches containing refuge plants for biological pest control throughout the year, both inside greenhouses and in the open air.
More bio at Bejo
The seed company is working to adapt some of its star varieties to ecological crops.
NaturaSì enters as a minority partner in Bioconsum
Bioconsum, the third operator in the specialised ecological sector in Spain, and NaturaSì, the largest Italian ecological food group are teaming up to consolidate a network of independent shops
