Het gaat goed met de Britse tomaat. Volgens Phil Morley van de British Tomato Growers’ Association heeft er de afgelopen jaren een krimp plaatsgevonden in de sector, maar is het tij nu aan het keren: “De Britse tomaat heeft zeker een mooie toekomst” De kentering heeft volgens Morley alles te maken met de opkomst van […]

  Coldiretti publishes results of recent survey, citing majority support for some form of protection of domestic products Italian consumers back import tariffs A rogues’ gallery of imported products assembled by Coldiretti which, it says, pose a risk to consumers in Italy One of Italy’s leading farming organisations says it has noted a major groundswell […]

Research teams have made a scientific breakthrough in developing new weather-resistant crops Weather-resistant crops could soon be a reality, according to researchers from the universities of Bolton and Warwick. Following a “fundamental” molecular-level discovery in plants, molecular physiologist Dr Ianis Matsoukas said that his research team has learnt that during the process of juvenility – […]

UCLA researchers have genetically engineered tomatoes to produce a compound (peptide) that mimics the actions of good cholesterol when consumed. Published in the April issue of the Journal of Lipid Research and featured on the cover, their early study found that mice that were fed these tomatoes in freeze-dried, ground form had less inflammation and […]

A plan to give pears publicity in China by growing them in molds to make them baby shaped has gone pear shaped! Consumers were supposed to be attracted to the novelty pears, but instead have reported finding them too cute to eat. The pears have been branded as Lucky baby Pears, after a Chinese legend […]

More than 500 citrus growers from Hato Mayor and El Seibo in the Dominican Republic, with some 300,000 cultivated areas have been battling a locust plague for the past five years. A plague that has infected plantations with the disease known as Huanglongbing (HLB), generating losses and damages of hundreds of millions of pesos. The […]

According to the Association of Banana Producer Organisations of the Canary Islands (Asprocan), the storms that have hit the islands since 2 March arrived with winds of up to 120 km/hour, causing severe damage to banana crops. Bad weather affected all the islands, although it was particularly strong in La Palma, especially in the towns […]

A woman called the Scottish Society for the Protection against Cruelty to Animals after finding a tropical scorpion in a bunch of bananas brought home from the supermarket. The incident happened at a house in in Dumfries. Animal Rescue Officer Tricia Smith collected the sand-coloured desert hairy scorpion. It has been taken to the charity’s […]

Dole heeft onlangs een nieuw product gelanceerd: de ‘Banana Dippers’. Volgens het bedrijf betreft het een snack, maar dan een die zonder schuldgevoel kan worden gegeten. De nieuwe snack bestaat uit een in partjes gesneden banaan met chocoladesaus. Volgens Dole bevatten de dippers niet meer dan 120 calorieën. Ze zijn verkrijgbaar in twee smaken: Chocola, […]

The situation on French roads has hardly improved after heavy snowfall yesterday. The forecast shows no improvements for the next day. Roads remain dangerously slippery. “On the A1, A2, A16 and A26 driving bans are in place and the A29 has just been added,” says Jeroen Mostert of C. Vreugdenhil Transport, a Dutch transport company. […]