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Italy’s Barilla pasta maker is investing 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) over five years to expand production and launch new products as company’s respond to shifting demand. Barilla’s pasta and sauces have grown faster than its bakery business in recent years, and now account for almost 60 percent of total sales. To respond to growing

Both Extremadura and Andalucia, Spain’s main tomato growing regions, as well as Portugal have experienced an extremely rainy May with severe thunderstorms and even hailstorms ! Not to mention much lower than usual temperatures, as low as 10°C at night and around 20 to 22°C during the day only ! Besides the hundreds of hectares

An Irish ice-cream parlour has become the talk of the town after it began to feature flavours with a little bit of a kick on its menu. Gelati Enniscrone, in Co Sligo, has been shocked by the public’s response after introducing a Tomato Ketchup flavoured ice-cream to their store. Owner Micheal O’Dowd, was born into

Agrofusion, the largest Ukrainian vertically integrated producer of tomato paste, intends in the current year to launch a tomato powder factory in Snihurivka (Mykolaiv region), company financial director Ivan Sakal has said. “We are building a factory for production of tomato powder in Snihurivka this year. This is a very popular product. Now we are

Agrofusion Group, a large tomato paste and industrial tomato producer in Ukraine, plans to plant and process 630 000 MT of tomatoes in 2018, including 9 900 MT of organic tomatoes. According to the company’s website, they started the organic production of tomato paste in 2017. “Last week all growing divisions of Agrofusion have begun

The Al Dahra Group of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) wants to purchase nearly 60,000 hectares of agricultural land along the Danube River, develop a logistics company including water and road transport and build a tomato paste production facility in Romania, representatives of the foreign investors told Ziarul Financiar daily. Gulf companies have been buying