Roel Vermeulen: "We expect a labour reduction of 20-30%"
Flevofruit tests new sorting machine for Conférence pears
Flevofruit from Biddinghuizen is currently testing a new sorting machine for Conférence pears. The brothers Roel and Wyno Vermeulen have chosen the French machine builder MAF Roda, who used a similar machine for sorting carrots - the machine is specifically designed for oblong products - but Flevofruit has.....
Xian Huang: "Lower imports due to high cost of fruit in China"
Chinese Asian pear season in full swing at Yex
At Yex, the Asian pear season is in full swing. "High season runs from August to February. We import Asian pears, of the Golden variety,directly from Chinafor the EU market,"said XianHuang from Yex. The importer explains that German customers particularly enjoy Asian pears, but he expects this will also rise.....
Growing In China SVM LTD Provides A Range Of Services
Shennong Variety Management or SVM for short, based in Kunming City Yunan, is presently operating test sites in all of the main horticultural production provinces of China.According to information from SVM, “the company with eight years in China under its belt provides a range of services to cultivar owners.....
Jan Timmermans: "I expect prices are rock bottom now"
Price pressure on Conference pears, especially the smaller sizes
The Conference pear
harvest has been higher than originally expected and that has created price
pressure especially for thesmaller sizes. At the auction in Belgium
today, the price per kilo was around 60-75 cents for the large size, 30-50
cents for middle sized, and around 25 cents for the small.....
UK: Biggest harvest yet for concept Conference Pear orchard
Producing the equivalent of more than 54 tonnes per hectare, the 2013 Conference Pear harvest from the Concept Pear Orchard at East Malling Limited, has also shown a strong variation between the four growing methods for the first time.In only its fifth leaf and fourth harvest, the demonstration Concept Pear.....
Koen de Roy: "Large price gap between small and large sizes"
This season may see more competition amongst European top fruit
At exporter Herwi, in the Netherlands,top fruit export is running at full steam. Salesman Koen de Roy tells of his anticipation for the coming season. "The pears are a little bit smaller than first thought but there are still too many. This means that this yearthe price gap between smaller and larger sizes.....
Anthony Clark, Mansfields
"Not a bumper crop, but looking forward to a positive season"
The English apple season is well under way at Mansfields, one of the biggest fruit growers in the UK. Anthony Clark, says the weather during the growing season was good, "There was the right amount of warmth and cold and it was not too wet. We also had a good contrast of day/night temperatures which has.....
Redpack’s flow wrapper premier machine for trayless top fruit packing
Apple growers have been demanding a flow wrapping machine that can wrap apples without a tray, with a high quality pack appearance and in a format to suit supermarket shelves. However apples are notoriously easy to damage and bruise so have to be handled very carefully “soft packaging” as it’s known in the.....
English apples, late but great
The fruit has been delayed by more than three weeks due to the long cold spring and late arrival of summer, which reduced the quantity of apples as well as their size, English Apples and Pears said.According to the trade association, the crop has not been this late since 1985.However, one of the warmest.....
Fabio Zanesco (VI.P)
Italy: October is the month of Red and Golden Delicious apples
Because of the 10-12 day delay in the harvesting of apples in Alto Adige, the marketing of fruits has been delayed as well, so sales began in mid-September."Sales in Italy and abroad started around two weeks ago with the Gala variety, the first that was harvested. Fruits are of medium-small grades but the.....
Early Pink Lady® game changer for growers and retail
With the look and flavor identical to the ‘standard’ Pink Lady® brand apple, this early sister is wearing the Pink Lady® Trademark with several important differences. The standard Pink Lady® sometimes requires brief storage time for its sugars and acid to balance. The early Pink Lady® is ready for market.....
Emcaral offers safe conservation of apples and pears
The apple & pear market is changing. There is a growing awareness in the use of additives and some large distribution chains are not accepting any more apples treated with 1mcp. Other substances, such as anti-scalding diphénylamine (DPA) are now forbidden in Europe. These new regulations are shifting the.....
UK: Pink Lady® celebrates its 21st Birthday with a sales boost
One of the UK’s most popular apple brands has reported a sales increase of more than 7% following a summer of high-profile marketing activityPink Lady® has reported that summer sales of its apples by volume are up by over 7% compared to the same period last year. This equates to over 1,000,000 more kilos.....
Urs Luder, CEO GKE: "Expansion production Southern Hemisphere"
"Every year closer to year-round Kanzi
The European Kanzi season will start again in mid October. According to Urs Luder, CEO of GKE, the number of Kanzi trees has almost reached 5 million. Despite the difficult growing season he expects a good year. "Kanzi did relatively well and started flowering at exactly the right moment. The fruit had a.....
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