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U.S. walnut exports are forecast at 230,000 metric tons (MT) in-shell basis for 2009/10, up 2 percent due to continued strong shipments to non-European markets. With lackluster EU demand, U.S. exporters shifted attention to other markets…
Peanut production in the United States is forecast at 3.63 billion pounds, down slightly from the Oct. 1 forecast and down 30 percent from last year. Area for harvest is expected to total 1.08 million acres, unchanged from October but down 28%…
Le Roi Mohammed VI a lancé, mardi 10 novembre dans la commune Sifa (province d’Errachidia), le projet de plantation d’un million de palmiers dattiers dans les oasis de Tafilalet à l’horizon 2015, d’un coût total estimé à 1,25 milliard de DH.
Les cours sont un peu plus faibles car les ventes importantes des Manavs et des paysans, il y a deux semaines, ont apporté de la sérénité au marché. En effet, maintenant les besoins les plus pressants ayant été couverts, les acheteurs…
Pistachios by the hundreds rained down on the heads of Dayana Garcia, Yaneth Romero, Ramon Camacho and Pablo Garcia at Big Al’s Pistachio Farms in Newberry Springs on Thursday. The four pickers dislodged the nuts…
Farmers are complaining about a lack of technical assistance and the poor quality of seeds they’ve planted this year in the Kaolack region, Senegal’s groundnut-producing area, 200 kilometres south of the capital Dakar.
The almond harvest was completed. Final hulling and stockpile fumigations continue. Growers have reported yields lower than expectations. The walnut, pecan, and pistachio harvests continued to near completion in the Central Valley.
Paramount Farms, the world’s largest vertically integrated supplier of pistachios and almonds, today announced the opening of its new $24 million, 22,800 square-foot almond manufacturing plant. The facility is designed to meet the growing…
VT 9506083-3 , a yet-to-be named large kernel Virginia type peanut will be available in limited supply in 2010 and provides a good match for super extra large kernel specialty peanut markets. A new peanut variety recently approved by…
Georgia, the No. 1 producing peanut state in the U.S., is expecting a record- breaking peanut yield this year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. At the end of harvest, Georgia farmers can expect to have 3,500 pounds…
Australia’s largest almond grower, Select Harvests Ltd, says the world won’t have enough of the nuts within five years and it is in the right product, in the right place, at the right time. Select Harvest chairman Curt Leonard says global…
Central Valley walnut growers are shaking the second-largest crop ever from their trees, undeterred by the recent windy storm. “The weather is beautiful since we had that rain,” grower John Kidd said Friday from his farm west of Modesto.
Viet Nam exported 134,000 T of cashew nuts, earning an export turnover of US$621 million in the first nine months of the year, according to the Viet Nam Cashew Association. The figure, the association said, was a 9.86% increase in volume…
Filomena Maiopue, National Director of the Cashew Promotion Institute (INCAJU), has warned that this is one of the factors jeopardizing the target of harvesting 90-95,000 tonnes of cashew nuts in the current campaign.
A heat wave in California’s San Joaquin Valley stepped up the harvest of raisin grapes, while the industry looked at the prospect of yet another good year for exports because of lower production in Turkey, a competitor for raisins…
Spain?s almond production for MY 2009/10 will increase nearly 60 percent over the previous year. The latest official data from the Spanish Ministry of Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs indicates a better crop than initially expected.
Con la certificación Suiza, Bolivia exporta maní orgánico al mercado europeo. Los pequeños productores al cumplir con las exigencias de calidad internacionales logran ingresar a los sofisticados mercados de la Unión Europea.
Depuis la forte hausse de la première quinzaine septembre, le marché évolue en dents de scie. Il y a 10 jours on était sur une crête, puis les cours ont baissé en fin de semaine et ce sont stabilisés depuis lundi.