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Salsa or ketchup? Changing demographics mean changing tastes

Salsa sales have overtaken ketchup, screams the banner headline on the Drudge Report Thursday afternoon. The story of Associated Press notes that the salsa news, still just barely sinking in, is « just the start. » « These days, tortillas outsell burger and hot dog buns; sales of tortilla chips trump potato chips; and tacos and burritos have

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California crop 2013 – updated 14/10/13

    2013 CROP 2012 HARVEST (1) 2011 HARVEST (2) 2010 HARVEST (3) 2009 HARVEST (4) AVGES 2009/10/11/12 WEEK ENDING UP TO PROJECT. TONS* ESTIMAT. TONS** ACTUAL. TONS*** REPORTED TONS* REPORTED TONS* REPORTED TONS* REPORTED TONS* REPORTED TONS* WEEK YTD WEEK YTD WEEK YTD WEEK YTD WEEK YTD WEEK YTD WEEK YTD WEEK YTD 29/06/13

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Spain: Tomates del Guadiana opens new processing facilities

The facilities of the company Tomates del Guadiana, located in the municipality Santa Amalia, have been refurbished and expanded after an investment of 7 million Euro, 3 million of which was part of Agro-industrial Incentives from Extremadura’s Council of Agriculture. The Councillor, José Antonio Echávarri, visited the factory and stated that, « after many years seeing

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Crop warning China !

According to several local sources, China tomato industry is experiencing a quite difficult tomato crop; a late start combined with low yields and adverse weather conditions are driving harvested volumes drastically down. Inner Mongolia factories processed only around 250 000 MT. of fresh fruits and Xinjiang processors predict a rapid decrease of tomato incomes and

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Nigeria spends N11.7bn on tomato imports

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has disclosed that Nigeria is the 14th largest producer of tomatoes in the world and 2nd only to Egypt in Africa at 1.51 million metric tonnes valued at N87 billion ($556.1 million) with a cultivated area of 264,430 ha. This was revealed at a one-day workshop on Tomato Value

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Malta : 2013 tomato crop up by 30%

Over 8.5 million kgs of tomatoes have been produced for processing this year, up by 30 %, or 2.3 million kgs over last year’s production, agriculture parliamentary secretary Roderick Galdes said yesterday. He was speaking during a visit to the factories of Magro Brothers and Farmers’ Food, both in Gozo, where he also met farmers

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Record rainfall costs tomato farmers millions

Tomato growers and processors will likely be short about $10 million worth of tomatoes after one of the worst growing seasons in decades. “It’s been probably the most difficult year we’ve had in a long, long time,” Leamington processing tomato grower Walter Brown said Wednesday as he thought back over the last 20 years. Brown,

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