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The days of cheap tinned tomatoes are over, with the federal government backing a decision to slap anti-dumping measures on two Italian giants that account for half of imported tinned tomatoes in Australia. The Anti-Dumping Commission found exporters La Doria and Feger di Gerardo Ferraioli guilty of dumping – selling product for less than they

AUSTRALIA’S largest tomato harvest kicked off near Echuca last week. Kagome Australia — the nation’s largest tomato proc­essor — began harvesting crops last Monday. Teams of four workers oper­ate in three eight-hour shifts, ensuring 24-hour harvesting and processing, and will continue until early April, by which time Kagome will have harvested 250,000 tonnes of tomatoes

The Santorini’s Tomato Industrial Museum is set inside the stone shell of one of the Greek island’s former tomato-processing plants. Santorini’s famous cherry tomato (also called Tomataki Santorini) is ­thicker-skinned, sweeter, deeper red and larger than garden-variety cherry tomatoes, looking a little like a flattened heirloom tomato. It’s said that its taste comes from the

ConAgra Foods Inc. will close its Hunt-Wesson tomato paste plant in the western Fresno County community of Helm, laying off 102 workers in mid-March. The plant occupies 29 acres near Kamm and Del Norte avenues east of Highway 145. About 70 seasonal employees are included in the layoff total, said Daniel Hare, a ConAgra spokesman.

Chinese companies have agreed to invest $1.74 billion in Kazakhstan’s organic foods industry for products earmarked for export to China, Kazakh Deputy Agriculture Minister Gulmira Isayeva announced Monday. Isayeva said the contracts centered on the production of crushed tomatoes, among other products. “Today we start 19 agricultural projects with a total investment of $1.74 billion.

The company, which is mostly known for its mustard, plans to make tomato paste at Highbury Canco in Leamington before shipping it off to other processing facilities that turn it into ketchup. Kim Cooper, the municipality economic development officer for agriculture, called it a positive development for local producers. “They’re going to be using Chatham-Kent

Manufacturers of tomato paste products in Nigeria have decried the shortage of the triple concentrate tomato paste a major ingredient in the production of tomato paste in the Nigerian market. The manufacturers blamed the shortage of the triple concentrate used in the production of packed tomato paste, on the listing of triple concentrate among the