(Bloomberg) — U.S. pistachio growers like Jim Zion braced for the worst last year when the nut...

The Australian Government has announced that it has secured market access for almonds into Chile, with which...

MPC already has a 37 per cent stake in the Bundaberg processor, and the acquisition will consolidate...

Cashew nut farmers in Mtwara Region have urged the Parliament to pressure the government to pay them...

Gridlock and inefficiency at the ports of Nigeria’s commercial hub, Lagos, delayed shipment of 50,000 tons of...

EAU CLAIRE — The hazelnut is loaded with potential. Jason Fischbach, Extension agriculture agent for Ashland and Bayfield...

Uzwil (Switzerland), March 19, 2019 – Bühler has today joined the World Business Council for Sustainable Development...

As it currently stands, Edwin Kim, MD, MS, and Scott Commins, MD, PhD, could be discussing 2,...

Cadbury Dairy Milk Silk has brought full pout to bear in a campaign spot pitching Silk Hazelnut....

Nigeria currently exports raw cashew nuts to Vietnam, China and India. There are opportunities for increasing the...

Studies suggest a link between high nut consumption and lower risks for heart disease. People use black...

HÀ NỘI – Cashew prices are expected to recover this year on the global market and producers...

Project Team Leader for Bono Asante Atea (BAAT) Project, Dr. Anthony Mainoo, has advocated increased investment in...

JAIPUR: You must be aware of benefits of but before you chew it, take a careful look...

Farmers at a small village in western Xinjiang hardly had any days off this winter. Production at...

Santiago, March 7th, 2019.- According to the Crop Report prepared by the Chilean Prune Processors and Exporters Trade Association...

Hello from Switzerland, I am Jens, the CEO of THE CLIPPER MAGAZINE, the leading global trade magazine for nuts and dried fruit.  I would be happy to stay in touch! If you want to know more about the magazine please visit: http://theclippermag.com Arlington, VA – SNAC International is pleased to announce that Amy...

TOMRA Food closed the 2018 financial year consolidating its position in Chile, with prospects of excellent results...

During its journey around the globe the nuts and dried fruit communication project will tell the stories...

The Clipper World Tour will be traveling around the planet to tell the most interesting stories about...

The Clipper World Tour is an 360 degree communication project for the nuts and dried fruit industry....

Tanzanian Minister for Agriculture, Japhet Hasunga, said on Tuesday 12,378 cashew nuts farmers were yet to be...

Cashew which was introduced by the Portuguese in Goa some five centuries back has become an  important...

Leuven, 12.02.2019 – More than 30 journalists from all over the globe and an international crowd of...

February 2019: The California Prune Board is throwing its weight behind the UK bread industry’s Fibre February...

In addition to growing a healthy food that people love, the California almond community is dedicated to...

The nutritious almonds we eat1 grow in a shell, protected by a hull, on a tree. The trees store carbon and are transformed into electricity at the end of their lives, the shells become livestock bedding, and the hulls are used as dairy feed. Nothing goes to waste. California Almond farmers and processors...

Uzwil, February 7, 2019 – The Bühler Group continued its positive development in 2018. All businesses achieved...

2018 was a nightmare for the Georgian hazelnut industry. Hazelnut exports in November 2018 were 52 per...

It’s about time for the annual mass migration of honeybees to California, and new research is helping lower the chances the pollinators and their offspring will die while they’re visiting the West Coast. Each winter, professional beekeepers from around the nation stack hive upon hive on trucks destined for the Golden State,...

In her role, Lewis will leverage more than 20 years of government, academic, nonprofit and corporate experience...

MUNICH — MunichNOW News — For one more week, activists like Georg Danes will be out on the streets all over Bavaria encouraging their fellow Bavarians to demand a referendum to protect bees and the biodiversity that they depend on. With the goal of collecting at least one million signatures, members of 200...

Uzwil (Switzerland), February 4, 2019 – Bühler has committed to co-found the Future Food Initiative launched by...

Ilyas Edip Sevinc, head of the Black Sea Hazelnut & Products Exporters’ Union (KFMIB) said: “We expect to export more hazelnuts in 2019. The first signs in the orchards look promising. If everything goes as expected, we will have a higher yield this season.” Hazelnut exporters expect an increased production and export...

There are indications that Nigeria lost about N28 billion ($79,550,000) from the 37,000 tonnes of cashew exported to Vietnam due to price volatility.Ideally, the price of processed cashew is $2,150 per ton at the global market.Deputy Executive Secretary, Federation of Agricultural Commodity Associations of Nigeria (FACAN), Peter Bakare, confirmed this recently.He noted...

Tanzania’s Director of Cereals and Produce Board, Dr Hussein Mansoor (left) and Kenya’s Indopower Solutions CEO Mr...

The 2018 South African macadamia crop ended on a positive note with a record crop of 56...

TIFTON, Ga.(Jan. 22, 2019) The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced today that all Farm Service Agency (FSA) offices will reopen to provide additional administrative services to farmers and ranchers during the lapse in federal funding.  “At President Trump’s direction, we have been working to alleviate the effects of the lapse in...

In this five-year review of Indian agrifood startup investment activity between 2013 and 2017, we detail $1.66 billion of investment across 558 deals; that’s 10% of global deal count. So far, India’s agrifood entrepreneurs have mostly focused on answering the demands of the country’s growing middle class, which is set to surpass...

London/California, December 5, 2018 – Bühler technology is enabling the world’s largest fig grower to double its...

Leuven, Belgium, 5 December 2018 – Bright Light Agribusiness, one of the fastest growing private companies in...

Around the world, there is growing momentum around finding ways to reduce, capture and remove carbon from the atmosphere. But, did you know a key to helping solve one of the world’s most pressing challenges may be found right under your feet? At a recent event hosted by California Department of Food...

The estimated peanut production would be the second most important of the last 9 years, with 1.09...

Dar es Salaam. The government is running against time to manage what appears to be a monumental task to raise hundreds of billions of shillings to fix the ongoing cashews marketing crisis. The Citizen has learnt that in addition to requiring over Sh660 billion to buy some 220,000 tonnes of cashews expected...

As the world’s largest exporter of pistachios, the U.S. sold $1.4 billion worth of in-shell pistachios in...

Nigeria exported cashew nut valued at N292.7 billion ($813.05 million) in the last three years to United States, Vietnam, India, Brazil and Europe. The nuts are being used as versatile industrial raw material for phenolic resins, friction powder for the automotive industry and wine. Also, poor handling of cashew production and defective...

The process of selling cashew nuts in Mozambique will be divided into phases, the first being reserved for domestic traders, the director of the Cashew Development Institute (INCAJU) recently said in Nampula. Ilídio Bande, who was speaking at the second meeting of the Cashew Committee, which brings together all actors in the...

OEM partnership to embed Wonderware by AVEVA in packhouse solutions to improve operator performance and efficiency. Auckland,...

The makers of the  Clipper Magazine are leading experts in the dried fruit and nuts market. Now...

Aflatoxins in food and milk can seriously harm humans, animals, and corporate reputations. But Nestlé Group in...

On Wednesday, President Trump stood before the United Nations General Assembly, in part, to defend reinstated sanctions...

In 2017, the U.S. maintained a trade surplus of over $3 billion in shelled almonds. This surplus...

Orlando (Florida), Uzwil (Switzerland), September 24, 2018 – At Microsoft Ignite, Bühler today officially launches MoisturePro™, a cloud-based digital service that drives significant improvements in yield and reduces energy costs and the environmental footprint of thermal processing in the food and feed industry. Harnessing the power of cloud connectivity, it can deliver...

Over the last few years Australia’s dried fruit market has been struggling to compete on the market...

China’s exports of walnuts are estimated to drop in MY 2018/19 as result of reduced domestic production. China has been a historical export supplier of walnuts over the last century. Over the past decade or so, China has nearly faded out as a supplier to the world market due to strong domestic...

China’s almond production (shelled basis) is forecast at 43,000 MT in MY 2018/19 (August-July), unchanged from the...

U.S. walnut, mandarin, grape, cherry and peach exports to China are expected to be hit hardest by new tariffs, according to Rabobank. Increasing Chinese demand for the products is expected to partially offset the impacts of the tariffs, but reduced exports will follow. Rabobank predicted milder but significant negative effects for other...

China’s in-shell walnut production is forecast to decrease by 15 percent to 850,000 MT in MY 2018/19 as a heavy snowstorm in April will likely reduce production in northern producing provinces. China’s in-shell walnut production is forecast at 850,000 metric tons (MT) in marketing year (MY) 2018/19 (September-August), a decrease of 15...

China’s hazelnut production (in-shell basis) is forecast at 28,000 MT in 2018/19 (September-August), down more than 30 percent from the previous year, as a result of cold temperatures in northeast China during the 2017 winter. Local varieties (smaller sizes) account for around 65 percent of total production and hybrid varieties (similar to...

At current price levels, China will likely import less U.S. almonds, pistachios, and walnuts due to the...

On September 4 and 5, 2018, snack´, a congress on the future of the snack industry, took...

One cashew nut out of two comes from Africa, making the continent the world’s largest producer of...

The Clipper Magazine is back with an innovative service for global BtoB-communication. Professional video interviews and mini-documentaries...

Kerala’s cashew industry has requested the Centre to extend fresh working capital with a subsidised interest rate...

Food waste has become an alarming issue for the food industry to tackle. Researches were initiated to...

The Kingdom’s cashew nut industry is still struggling to maintain a stable market as community representatives say...

Kogi is capable of generating over 10,000 job opportunities from investments in cashew production and processing, says...

Africa is currently the leading producer of cashew, providing more than 50 per cent of global output, Mrs. Juliana Ofori-Karikari, Finance and Administration Manager of Competitive Cashew Initiative (ComCashew) said in Sunyani. Speaking on behalf of the Executive Director of ComCashew at the opening of the second session of the Sixth Edition...

The global macadamia industry today launched a critical, world-first research project aimed at providing strong evidence to...

The Institute of Food Technologists show held in Chicago mid-July centers on food ingredients and processing flavored with a little packaging. Intriguingly, a Tech Theater presentation sponsored by the Almond Board of California (Modesto, CA) disclosed research and development in using almond shells as an ingredient in plastics for applications including packaging....

The Clipper Magazine is the global leader for nuts and dried fruit information. To ease the problems...

August 21, 2018 – Key Technology, Inc., a member of the Duravant family of operating companies, and Heat and Control Pty Ltd. announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership to support customers in Australia, New Zealand and India. Under the terms of the agreement, Key has appointed Heat and Control...

Authorities said the damage was limited in the flood-hit areas, save from the region’s hazelnut farms. Ordu’s...

El Farm Bureau es una organización independiente, no gubernamental, voluntaria, gobernada por y representando a familias de granjeros y rancheros, de carácter no partidista, no sectario y no secreto. Como las almendras y otros frutos secos podrían verse afectados muy pronto, nos gustaría compartir el siguiente artículo con ustedes. Tenga en cuenta...

Amid expectations of a robust harvest, California’s almond growers are anxious over reduced demand due to new...

The U.S. is reimposing a raft of sanctions on Iran after midnight Monday, as the Trump administration seeks to ratchet up pressure on Tehran. The U.S. had agreed to relax sanctions on Iran under the 2015 nuclear agreement, but President Donald Trump abandoned the deal back in May. The administration is now...

The sorting industry has made fantastic progress in the last years – with stunning innovations from the bigger groups like TOMRA, KEY, Bühler, Satake and others. It seems hard to believe a total newcomer in the industry could gain market share. No problem for Austrian engineers who founded Insort. With some brilliant...

Pecans are a very special items for business: Trees take extremely long to become profitable, a large...

The list of competitors for global hazelnuts sales is getting longer, with Chile, Spain, South Africa, Australia...

LEUVEN, BELGIUM (Thursday, July 12, 2018) – Aflatoxins in food and milk can seriously harm humans, animals, and corporate reputations. But Nestlé Group in China and the longest-serving peanut-shelling plant in the USA are both showing how laser sorting machines can eliminate the risk. Food contamination by aflatoxins, which can cause cancer,...

A Deputy Minister of Agriculture,Mr. Kennedy Osei Nyarko, has announced that the government is to set up...

PANJIM: Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has informed the House that the State government is promoting the cashew...

That’s according to the Vietnam Cashew Association (VINACAS) who say 80 per cent of small cashew processing factories have closed since June due to lack of raw materials and capital for production, causing a major dent in the country’s economy. This happened despite the cashew sector surpassing rice, coffee and rubber to...

A shipment of almonds has been exported from Australia to Germany using a blockchain-based trade platform. Documentation...

The Fraunhofer Institute in Karlsruhe is working on a series of technical innovations that could fundamentally change...

Food manufacturers are very careful when it comes to detection of foreign bodies in food because it can lead to injury to customers. This, in turn, can cause loss of loyalty as well, recalls and rejections. These are bad for the business as it can cause loss of investments. Food safety and...

While honey bees have always been the star of the show for almond pollination, we know other pollinators play important roles in our food supply. So as we continue celebrating National Pollinator Week, we’re highlighting a native bee may someday join in pollinating almonds. Early research suggests that integrating the blue orchard bees...

Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — The 10th Vinacas Golden Cashew Rendezvous will take place in Hạ Long in the northeastern province of Quảng Ninh this October, according to the Việt Nam Cashew Association (Vinacas). Nearly 500 businesses from 50 countries and territories are expected to attend. Vinacas will hold exchanges and...

When is the end of PPO-Pasteurization coming? About 10 years ago the salmonella outbreak in Canada was traced back to raw almonds. Over the following years, a few more outbreaks were caused by these nuts grown in California. Infected produce came from different growers and no measures taken after finding the source of...

India’s retaliation of raising import duties on items majorly imported from the USA will result in higher prices of dry fruits, particularly almond and walnut, say businessmen. The USA is the largest suppliers of these commodities and there are not many alternative suppliers, which can help India diversify its imports. What came...

Viet Nam News HCM CITY — Việt Nam exported 141,000 tonnes of cashew nuts for a value of U$$1.39 billion in the first five months of the year, a year-on-year increase of 21.4 per cent and 25.3 per cent, respectively, according to the Việt Nam Cashew Association. With this result, Việt Nam...

With most of the Northern Hemisphere crop already in the market, raw cashew prices are expected to...

With most of the Northern Hemisphere crop already in the market, raw cashew prices are expected to stabilize around USD 1650-1800 levels (CNF HCM) going forward. Kernel price (W320), which has reduced by over 5.32% since the beginning of the year is likely to be the range bound between 4.0 and 4.5...

The government will intervene to solve the problems of cashew processors and ensure job security in the...

The European Union has launched a project to grow five million cashew nut seedlings in Kilifi, Kwale and Lamu counties. EU Ambassador Stefano Dejak yesterday said the move aims to revive the industry that collapsed nearly three decades ago. He spoke in Kilifi after commissioning the €2 million EU(Sh236 million) project. Dejak...

Are you searching for a nut that you can grow in Central Florida? Macadamias are a tropical nut from Australia that will also grow here, although we are borderline for cold hardiness. That means older trees can survive cold winters with a little die back, but small trees will need to be...

Of all the foods served in Ramadhan, dates remain the favourite at Iftaar times. The demand has grown exponentially higher over the years as people purchase different varieties of the prized dry fruit. Srinagar shopkeepers have witnessed a surge in the sales of dates with people purchasing different varieties on a large...

Abidjan: Famous for its cocoa and coffee, the Ivory Coast has drawn up an ambitious five-year plan for the cashew industry, seeking to modernise production in a sector where it is already the world’s number-one exporter. “We have shown that we know how to produce the nuts – now we have to...

The 17th world prune conference took place in Sainte Livrade sur Lot in Southern France in an agriculture College in the center of french prune production. In unusually moody weather for the region at this time of year attendance was impressive with a high percentage of delegates from Chile, USA and Australia ...

The Clipper is offering innovative services for nuts and dried fruit, confectionery, snack and processing industry to target precisely human resources: With its database tools The Clipper is able to exactly identify certain groups of people within the industry that are qualified for positions in trade, post-harvest, production, farming or technology. “Jobs...