The increase in the production of Peruvian olives from the Tacna and Arequipa regions was one of the factors that drove the growth of the Peruvian agricultural sector last year. Therefore, in order to improve the standards in the value chain of this product, the National Institute of Quality (Inacal), a public body attached to the Ministry of Production, approved the Peruvian...
Poland opens transit: the first trucks with Ukrainian products go to the Netherlands
Kyiv. Starting from midnight, April 21, Poland has unblocked the movement of Ukrainian agricultural products in transit through the country to other EU countries and Polish seaports. The first truck convoy will depart from the Dorohusk checkpoint to the Netherlands within an hour. Michal Derus, spokesman for the Chamber of Tax Administration in Lublin, told Ukrinform in a comment to its...
Germany’s Producer prices March 2023: +7.5% compared to March 2022
Wiesbaden, April 20, 2023. According to preliminary data from the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), Germany’s producer prices of industrial products were 7.5% higher in March 2023 than in March 2022. In February 2023, the rate of change had still been +15.8% compared to the same month last year. Compared to the previous month, producer prices fell by 2.6% in March 2023. This...
Chanthaburi governor rallies farmers to make deals with the private sector: Export Thai fruits by air to China
News summary: Chanthaburi Provincial Governor urges Thai farmers to conjoin with the private sector and export Thai fruit by air to China. The Governor of Chanthaburi, Thailand, has urged the Thai agricultural sector to join hands with the private sector and the airlines of China to export fruits by air. This will increase the existing product distribution channels to China and will...
South Korea’s Agriculture Minister Chung Hwang-geun holds bilateral meeting with French Minister of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty Marc Pennot
On Thursday, April 20, Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Chung Hwang-geun met with French Minister of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty, Marc Fesneau at the Government’s Sejong Office to discuss ways to strengthen bilateral cooperation in the agri-food sector. Minister Jung emphasized that smart agriculture is an important pillar of agriculture with which to respond to recent challenges such as climate...
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 Agricultural Products Processing of the...
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 from a controlled supply chain....
Olymel Plant Shut Down Fuels Worries Over Future of Pork
Olymel, the Canadian processor and distributor of poultry and pork, is planning to shut down its plant in allée-Jonction, Que. The plant handles the company’s slaughtering, cutting and deboning operations. This is not the first plant the company is closing, and no one can tell if it’ll be the last either. It had already closed the Blainville and Laval plants....
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 compared to 2021, reports Belgian...
FDA’s Front-of-Package Labeling Change: What’s the Impact on the Food Industry?
Front-of-the-Label (FOP) labeling changes will play an important role in alleviating diet-related chronic illnesses, especially among Americans at the lower-tier of the economic pyramid, if the current show of approval by the public on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA)’s developments is anything to go by. What does the law mean for the industry? The original aim of standardizing the...