More than 91,000 people in the global fruit and vegetable trade came together Feb. 5-7 in Berlin, Germany, for Fruit ...

The French once referred to tomatoes as “pommes d’amour” which translates to “apples of love.” ...

Growers install netting primarily to protect fruit, but the move also saves a lot of water. Hannes Laubscher of United Exports estimated the savings at 15 percent. It allows them to cut back on ...

Agronomist and president of the consulting firm Top Info Marketing S.A., Betina Ernst, analyzed the Argentine fruit industry ...

Apple and pear exports are expected to increase this year on the back of new orchards coming into production, improved ...

Hortgro announces its second annual “Plum Possibilities” consumer-facing sweepstakes to shoppers in the United States.

Technically, the squash is a fruit, but as I’m no horticulturalist, I’ll avoid explaining why. What I do know is that most squash is harvested in late summer and in autumn and left to age for ...

Water scarcity limits how much of the company’s acreage can be planted to orchards. (Kate Prengaman/Good Fruit Grower) South African pome and stone fruit production is a $1 billion industry, made up ...

South Africa grows just a bit over 134,100 acres of pome and stone fruit for the world export market, the vast majority of which is grown in the Western Cape province. Because labor is relatively ...

But the story is a bit more complicated as, like most citrus fruit, the orange is actually a hybrid. "There is no such thing as a wild orange in China," botanist David Mabberley, adjunct professor ...

This know-how of pairing cheese and wine also applies to fruit and cheese pairings. Take the classic pairing of watermelon and feta: The light, juicy-sweet watermelon contrasts with the salty chunks ...