Business

Bayer continues to invest significantly in its Crop Science division to deliver new solutions for sustainable agriculture despite the current difficult business environment.

Increasingly, the fresh produce sector is looking to claim a foothold in the emoji landscape by sponsoring its own fruit characters.

GRODAN introduces e-Gro: an easy to use, mobile app that gives real-time substrate information. e-Gro is a new service from GRODAN developed to support customers with a GroSens® MultiSensor system.

Vegetable seed companies Hazera and Clause will hold their annual International Open Days from 27th September to 29th September in Warmenhuizen, The Netherlands.

eCommerce is only a niche in the food industry, but it has boundless potential. Online customers are also better offline customers: they spend more in stores and are more loyal, something Albert Heijn knows all too well.

Fresh produce brands are looking to build brand loyalty and illustrate value using a variety of marketing and advertising channels to reach and interact with their consumers — and that means increasing their focus and investment in marketing.

HarvestPort, a Californian startup, is matchmaking farmers to farm equipment that they don’t own and they don’t want to buy.

Fruit South Africa (FSA) and the ASSOCIAZIONE ITALIANA COMMERCIO ESTERO (AICE) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote mutual trade and investment opportunities in the fresh fruit sectors between South Africa and Italy.

EDEKA believes that the implementation of Good Agricultural Practices is the key to produce safely and sustainably. Therefore EDEKA is requiring all producers of fruits and vegetables to be certified to the GLOBALG.A.P. Integrated Farm Assurance Standard.