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Production

22 Nov 2024

Sant'Orsola's new 'Trentino greenhouse' is the future for environment and growers

Green and camouflaged in the landscape, shady, ventilated, it lowers high indoor temperatures, helps workers, plants, fruit and beneficial insects.

Markets

22 Nov 2024

What we can learn from the blueberry midlife crisis in Mexico

Mexico has seen a reduction in blueberry exports for the first time in 10 years and is forced to accelerate varietal renewal and organization processes.

Research

21 Nov 2024

From Antarctica the remedy to reduce botrytis on blueberries by 71%

A recent study evaluated the effects of a bacterium on Botrytis cinerea, the fungus responsible for the grey mould that attacks blueberries after harvest.

Retail

20 Nov 2024

Blueberry prices in Italian retail e-commerce drop by 6.8% in week 47/2024

Generalised reductions throughout the berry category in the e-commerce prices of Italian retailers. In particular, blueberries dragged the index down.

City

20 Nov 2024

Prices falling but not enough in 18 retail stores in Trieste (Italy)

For blueberries and raspberries, a decrease in prices is observed, which, however, does not fully reflect the dynamics of the general market, on lower levels.

Production

20 Nov 2024

Moroccan strawberries focus on added value and technification, while raspberries boom

Alfonso Lopez (Planasa) analyses the competitiveness of the Moroccan berries industry focusing on innovation and sustainability of strawberries and raspberries.

Prices

19 Nov 2024

Downward prices for blueberries in global panel in week 47/2024

The index consists of 14 global retail brands, 14 of which have blueberries on offer in the 18/11/2024 survey.

Breeding

19 Nov 2024

How Lucchini Berries' Easy Raspberries are growing from Mexico to Morocco

Alessandro Lucchini, a pioneer of berries in Italy, works full-time on the spread of EasyRock and EasyStar raspberries from Morocco to Mexico and Poland.

Production

18 Nov 2024

In Morocco, labour and water shortages may slow down the expansion of berries

The 2023/24 season saw the emergence, for the first time in Morocco, of a problem that had not been anticipated: the shortage of labour. Water is also short.

City

15 Nov 2024

In Padua, signs of normalisation from the 20 stores visited by the Berry Retail Monitor

The situation for berries in Padua (Italy) is stabilising in terms of both price and quality. Good shelf availability across the whole category.