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From grapes to grapefruit, sales of organic fruit are on the rise, and suppliers anticipate ample volume of good-quality product for the late spring and summer months.

Organic produce sales may be no longer be escalating at a double-digit rate, but retailers, foodservice operators and grower-shippers say movement continues to trend upward.

With only a two-week gap between Easter and Cinco de Mayo this year, mango grower-shippers may be scrambling to keep fruit in the pipeline.

In Citrusdal, South Africa, members of Summer Citrus from South Africa have made plans for the summer season of U.S. imports.

Any way you measure it, attendees and exhibitors said the April 25-27 2019 Viva Fresh show was a success.

Homestead, Fla.-based Brooks Tropicals LLC has added Javier Gonzalez Ebra as the firm’s sales manager and added industry veteran Emil Bravo as the company’s newest salesman.

HLB Specialties is looking forward to the start of the rambutan season, starting in Guatemala in May and continuing with Honduras through December.

Oakland, Calif.-based vertical farm operator Crop One Holdings won the Best Innovation in Indoor Farming Award at the 2019 Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

The U.S. Apple Association awarded a $4,000 Apples4Ed grant to help the Rensselaer City School District in New York create a healthy snacking program encouraging student participation in physical activity — basically an outdoor snack station in the middle of a running track.

Lake Park, Ga.-based Generation Farms is building on a recently expanded line of colored sweet onions, said Lauren Dees, sales and marketing manager.