Tom Joyce
News Editor at Fruitnet
News editor at Fruitnet Media International, publisher of magazines (Eurofruit, Asiafruit, FPJ) & organiser of events on global fruit & vegetable business
Articles
-
4 days ago |
fruitnet.com | Tom Joyce
Over the past decade, Belgian grower Stannuco has transformed the way aubergines are cultivated and packed in the country, using hands-on experience to drive innovation in the right direction. Steven Van Nuffelen, who co-runs the business with his wife, recalls the company’s humble beginnings. “We started in 1993 with peppers,” he says. “After 20 years, we wanted a second vegetable.
-
6 days ago |
fruitnet.com | Tom Joyce
The REO auction in Roeselare, West Flanders, is a one-stop shop for retail, restaurant and hotel buyers, offering as it does a huge range of fresh fruits and vegetables – 82 different kinds, to be precise. Top products include tomatoes, cucumbers, salads, berries and mushrooms, but it is perhaps the auction’s more specialist items, not least the curly endive, that give it its particular character.
-
6 days ago |
fruitnet.com | Tom Joyce
The Greek strawberry campaign this season began about two weeks later than usual, in the month of November, primarily due to delays to plantings, according to Alexandros Polydoropoulos, agronomist at Greek strawberry specialist Labidino. “After the plants were established, the weather and especially the prolonged cloudy conditions in my opinion, adversely affected plant growth,” he says.
-
1 week ago |
fruitnet.com | Tom Joyce
Florida-based One Banana, a family-owned producer of high quality bananas on its farms in Guatemala, Peru and Ecuador, has announced the launch of its Regenerative Agriculture Pilot Project, developed with technical support from Earth University in Costa Rica and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
-
2 weeks ago |
fruitnet.com | Tom Joyce
A wide assortment from Den Berk DéliceThe sense of trepidation provoked across the world by US president Donald Trump’s trade wars will be a familiar feeling for many Belgian fruit and vegetable suppliers, whose principal market vanished in a flash when Russia’s embargo was introduced back in 2014. That particular bombshell precipitated a concerted effort to find new export markets to replace the sizeable volumes of Belgian produce formerly sent to Russia.
Try JournoFinder For Free
Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.
Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →Coverage map
X (formerly Twitter)
- Followers
- 1K
- Tweets
- 1K
- DMs Open
- No
RT @drvandanashiva: protecting biodiversity is my life's work tomorrow we will taste 9 varietis of mangoes , 21 mango dishes . Diversity i…
AgroBelgrade has kicked off in the Serbian capital. Serbian minister of agriculture Jelena Tanaskovic and US ambassador to Serbia Christopher Hill open the exhibition by discussing the hard work of Serbian producers and the opportunities for exporters in Europe and beyond. https://t.co/eZ3bywRZWE
RT @foodcareplus: At the heart of our export campaign for conference #pears lies our steadfast belief in the future market of Brazil. That'…