Chiquita announced on Tuesday that is to sell its German distribution business Atlanta AG to Univeg.

New Covent Garden Flower Market is staging a Best of British Flowers event exclusively for the floristry trade, in the early hours of tomorrow morning.

British tomato growers have been asked to supply their fruit to restaurants in the Houses of Parliament, as part of British Tomato Week.

The Irish strawberry industry – once the Cinderella of the country’s horticulture sector, serving mainly processors – has been transformed into a success story, a national soft-fruit conference in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, was told this week.

The spiralling cost of inputs is likely to lead to contraction in the Belize citrus industry, its leaders are warning.

Asda said it has been “reassured” by the Competition Commission that including overseas suppliers in the new Grocery Supply Code of Practice (GSCOP) will not be unnecessarily burdensome, as it makes an apparent about turn on its earlier stance.