Posts tagged apples
Apple brand KIKU has launched a video competition following the success of its photo contest last season. The video above was submitted by 1993tc as one of the first entries.
Installation Art: The colourful exterior of Italian apple supplier Mivor’s new packhouse, which entered full-scale operation this month.
D = 3 × (2 T 2) × M / (10 × T)
Early Start: English apples being picked and packed at the start of the 2011/12 season, which has made its earliest start on record.
Larger apple crop expected in Southern Hemisphere
This year’s apple export crop from the Southern Hemisphere is forecast to increase by roughly 8 per cent to just under 2m tonnes, according to predictions from Chile-based fruit analyst Decofrut, thanks to increases in volume in all producer countries apart from Brazil and Australia. More details at Fruitnet.com
Eurofruit organised a special round table meeting last week in London for the French apple sector, bringing some of the UK’s leading industry players face to face with representatives of France’s topfruit export business. At the meeting, hosted on behalf of Sopexa, were: Daniel Corbel (Interfel), Sandrine Gaborieau (Association National Pommes Poires), David Croxson (Tesco), Paul Morgan (Musgrave), Steve Maxwell (Worldwide Fruit), Greg Hart (Sydney Hart), Sue Shields (Sydney Hart), Chris Guindi (Richard Hochfeld), Jerry Green (Greencell) and William Haynes (Epco). A full report from the meeting will be published in the February 2011 issue of Eurofruit Magazine.
Okanagan Specialty Fruits, a tiny biotech firm based in Summerland, in the Canadian province of British Columbia, has asked regulators in both Canada and the US to put their stamp of approval on its genetically modified, non-browning apple.
Growers down here are pretty despondent and some have already grafted over their Jazz trees to other varieties including Fuji and Pink Lady. We can’t go on losing money year after year.
As Europe prepares to market a 35,000-tonne crop of Kanzi apples, the brand’s 2010/11 marketing campaign kicked off last Friday with an eye-catching parade through Brussels.
Cheap at twice the price!
Why has this compound been causing a stir within the apple business over the past couple of weeks? Find out on Fruitnet.com.
British apple season prompts annual soul-searching
Three weeks after the official start of the UK apple season, a quick survey of a British supermarket by the Daily Telegraph has found that less than 16 per cent of the apples in store are produced domestically, a situation described by one grower as “disgraceful”.
