Author: Timothy Wahome (Timothy Wahome)

It’s more reassuring to eat pineapple! China’s first national industry standard for freshly cut pineapple processing has been approved 
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It’s more reassuring to eat pineapple! China’s first national industry standard for freshly cut pineapple processing has been approved 

Recently, the Department of Agricultural Product Quality & Safety Supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued the Notice on Issuing the Project Plan for the Revision of the National and Industrial Standards for Agriculture in 2023. Among them, the “Technical Regulations for Freshly Cut Pineapple Processing” declared by the Institute of Silkworm Industry and...

Italy’s Legumes Select: innovate cultivation techniques to encourage the development of the short supply chain and the conversion to organic, in Campania
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Italy’s Legumes Select: innovate cultivation techniques to encourage the development of the short supply chain and the conversion to organic, in Campania

SAN GIUSEPPE VESUVIANO (Naples) – Contributing to the development of a short supply chain on legumes grown in Campania “from producer to processor” using organic methods is the intent of Agria S.p.A.. The company, specializing in the selection and packaging of Select brand’s dried legumes, has honored consumer trust for more than 60 years by guaranteeing quality raw materials...

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Belgium sowed significantly more grains in 2022 

Belgian farmers sowed more grain last year due to higher prices because of the Ukraine war. The acreage of spring cereals and grain corn increased by 36 percent in 2022, according to final figures from the Belgian statistics office Statbel.  Specifically, the area of spring wheat, spring barley and grain maize grew by 19,251 hectares...

Fruit and vegetables: Citrus fruits’ prices in Taranto drop 48%-Less consumption, too many production costs
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Fruit and vegetables: Citrus fruits’ prices in Taranto drop 48%-Less consumption, too many production costs

TARANTO –Italy’s citrus prices on the Taranto marketplace have plummeted by 48 percent, as price increases in the shopping cart and climate change have decimated harvests, while consumers have cut their fruit purchases, which plummeted by 8 percent in quantity compared to last year, to the lowest since the beginning of the century. This is what...

Portuguese Chamomile: Kombucha drinking flowers
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Portuguese Chamomile: Kombucha drinking flowers

In summary: Aquela Kombucha flower drink will be an ideal blend of Portugal’s chamomile and elderflower samples. Already launched (in pre-sale format), the first limited edition of 2023 of Aquela Kombucha, which goes into circulation on April 15, Saturday, when the brand opens a bar at Rua Duque de Saldanha 345, in Porto, will be...

Korea: Tripling profits with innovative nursery technology…”I’m going to be a strawberry master”
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Korea: Tripling profits with innovative nursery technology…”I’m going to be a strawberry master”

Jincheon, a town in Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea, is surrounded by fields and greenhouses. Born and raised here, Lee Ho-myung, 39, CEO of Bujubu Farm, is a rising star in the business world. After becoming the youngest agricultural meister in the country last year, he has won awards at various prestigious agricultural competitions. He generates annual...

Turkey: Yields in modern greenhouses established by the metropolis delights producers
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Turkey: Yields in modern greenhouses established by the metropolis delights producers

Within the scope of the “Greenhouse Development Project” initiated by Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality to enable Turkish farmers from here to produce products with high market value and increase their income by producing in modern greenhouses, Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality provided 50 percent grant support for the installation of modern greenhouses and greenhouse nylon to farmers. The...

Vietnam: Make community agricultural extension a key force in the agricultural sector at the grassroots level
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Vietnam: Make community agricultural extension a key force in the agricultural sector at the grassroots level

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has proposed that localities focus on consolidating and developing community agricultural extension models and the models to become the main force of the Vietnamese agricultural sector at the grassroots level. On April 14, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development sent a document to the People’s Committees of the...

The cultivation of Almond trees in the Balearic Islands of Spain receives a boost with the planting of new varieties
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The cultivation of Almond trees in the Balearic Islands of Spain receives a boost with the planting of new varieties

In summary: The cultivation of Spanish almond trees in the Balearic Islands receives a boost with the planting of new varieties. The Balearic Islands Institute for Agri-Food and Fisheries Research and Training has planted a total of 187 almond trees of ten different varieties, in order to evaluate their adaptation to the agro-climatic conditions of Mallorca....