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UK: Suppliers ration stocks of tinned tomatoes after high demands

Supermarkets told to ‘calm the fever’ as UK sales rise more than 30% during coronavirus crisis.Tinned tomato suppliers are rationing stocks to supermarkets after demand in the UK surged more than 30% and threatened to use up supplies ahead of this year’s harvest.Supermarkets and convenience store groups are understood to be jockeying for supplies as

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Pandemic adds turmoil to tomato season

The 2020 tomato crop is being planted into a world of uncertainty.”I guess we’re gambling right now,” said Aaron Barcellos, who grows processing tomatoes in Merced and Fresno counties. “We’re rolling the dice that it’s all going to be fine by August, when we start harvest.”The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s January forecast called for 12

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Market Report – April 13, 2020

INVENTORIES VERY LOW and PRICES UP !!!Except in California and, to a lesser extent, in China (although this may be a surprise to some of you), our industry badly lacks reliable data on inventories (whether physical ones at processors factories, whether sold but not shipped …) especially in the AMITOM area (Europe, Ukraine, Turkey, North Africa

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Tunisia : Coronavirus – Excellent initiative of the Group Bayahi

Authorities ordered 400 000 COVID-19 tests to their 2 suppliers and Bayahi Group takes in charge the whole amount of 2 743 490 USD (8 mil Tunisian Dinars). A wonderful act of solidarity! BAYAHI Group Founded in 1960 is a family company. Present in the Agrifood sectors, Glass and Metals industries, Insurance and Real Estate

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Australia: SPC Ardmona could run out of stock

SPC Ardmona is processing tomatoes as fast as possible to meet soaring demand — much of it driven by panic-buyers, but they could face running out of stock. The tomato harvest is down 10% this year and SPC predicts it will only process about 40 000 tonnes.  Echuca-based Kagome, Australia’s largest tomato processor, has been approached by

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World Price Index March 2020

WORLD PRICE TRENDS   TOMATOLAND WORLD PRICE INDEX – MARCH 2020 Products for the industry – CROP 2019 All the indicated prices are subject to availability as current available inventories are very limited from many origins. Price per Kg, packed in aseptic bag in 220 l. (55 gal) drum – unless otherwise specified Origin 28/30CB

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Prevention of foreign bodies coming from the fields

How to reduce the potential risk to your crop Unfortunately, it’s not only tomatoes being harvested from the field. During this very intensive few months of work, pieces of corn cobs, irrigation hoses and many other foreign materials can end up with the consumer if not detected and removed. Foreign body prevention is a topic

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US Processed Tomato stocks for March 1, 2020

US Tomato Inventory is down 8.1% from the prior year level according to the report released by California League of Food Producers on March 19, 2020. Listed below are the 2019-2020 Bulk Tomato Paste and Bulk Tomato “Paste for Sale” pack and inventory estimates as of December 1, 2019 for U.S. Tomato Processors. The 2019-2020 U.S.

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Nigeria: CBN’s FOREX Policy Stalls Tomato Processing Plant in Katsina

Three years after Katsina State government granted 5,000 hectares of land to Erisco Foods Limited to establish a 750,000 metric tonnes per year Tomato Paste Processing Plant, the company is yet to commence production, investigation by local press has revealed. Investigation showed that the project suffered a major setback due to the failure of Central

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