“Our early apple season this year has kicked off at a similar time as in previous years. The harvest period of late apples is expected to begin in late September, and they will officially become available in early October,” said Mr. Yang Yueguo from Baishui Runquan Modern Agriculture Science Development Co., Ltd. read more...

The Chilean apple industry has focused its exports mainly on commodity varieties such as Gala and Fuji. With all the changes in the global apple industry in the last ten years, Chilean producers wisely chose to improve the clones of these popular varieties. However, the new varieties (club) are a real option for the variety replacement that is happening today in Chile. read more...

September marks the beginning of the apple harvest and this means that the early variety Gala apples will be hitting stores in a few weeks. While this sounds promising, the predicted volumes for this season are much lower than they have been in previous years. This is due to the frosts that hit Poland in April, severely damaging the crops and reducing the volumes to about 40-50% of previous years. This translates into about 3 to 3.2 million pounds, compared to approximately 5 million pounds last year. read more...

Pink Lady® master licensee holders, TopFruit, last month held their first Nigerian market activation at the Arena Market in Lagos where almost a thousand market sellers as well as end-consumers had the opportunity to taste South African-grown Pink Lady® apples. read more...

The tariff war fallout has helped introduce Vietnamese shoppers to imported treats such as cherries, However, the change could spell disaster for local farmers. read more...