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Processing companies promise to buy entire tomato harvest

The processing companies of the Republic of Armenia, increased in 2013 the purchase volumes and are ready to buy the entire harvest of the tomatoes produced in the Republic. As Armenpress was reported by the director of the Artfood Artashat Cannery OJSC Vachagan Karapetyan, the company can buy unlimited volumes of tomatoes. « We have all

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Peruvian tomato export plans

Peru’s tomato processing industry Icatom plans to export 17,000 tonnes of tomato paste to buyers in South America this year. The company currently has around 800 hectares planted with industrial tomato varieties and the average yield is expected to reach 120 tonnes per hectare, according to Icatom’s sales manager, Arturo Arredondo Zevallos. Source : Informa

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Breaking News – North Italy

Hail storms of last week damaged around 10% of the fields in the Cremona and Ferrara growing areas. Tomatoland, 22 July 2013 You should login or purchase a subscription to view this content Username or E-mail Password Remember Me     Forgot Password

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Market Report – July 2013

  News from the world of processing tomatoes :   CALIFORNIA : poor start ! Harvesting has started beginning of July according to schedule; with a total volume of 1.458 million short tons (1.322 million MT.) expected to be processed by July 20, California tomato industry is about one week ahead of 2012 (0.962 million short tons

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Crop estimates of the 2013 crop as of July 20th. 2013

Global Processing Tomato Volumes METRIC TONS / raw product equivalents 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 forec. North America 13 142 31,06% 12 335 32,81% 12 188 32,47% 12 815 38,38% 11 990 37,17% European Union Amitom (1) 10 726 25,35% 9 557 25,42% 8 526 22,71% 8 371 25,07% 7 259 22,50% Non Europe Amitom

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Curly-Top Virus hits again

  Curly-Top Virus infects season’s tomatoes view the full clip here Fresno County, California May 29th, 2013   You should login or purchase a subscription to view this content Username or E-mail Password Remember Me     Forgot Password

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CROP WARNING ! – TOMATOLAND, 23 MAY 2013

  The tomato crop is facing severe problems in the Mediterranean basin but also in California, representing together more than 65% of the world production : SPAIN : down 20 % ? A very wet winter followed by an exceptionally rainy spring made it very difficult for Spanish farmers, especially in Extremadura, to prepare the fields for

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