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Farm Fresh Produce Inc., Faison, N.C., has hired Oscar Avila as its lead salesman specializing in sweet potatoes.

Riverside, Calif.-based Index Fresh is seeing peak volume and quality of Peruvian avocados.

The Peruvian avocado deal plays an increasingly important role in the U.S. avocado industry, grower-shippers say.

The Northwest pear industry is adjusting to the coronavirus, said Kevin Moffitt, president and CEO of Milwaukie, Ore.-based Pear Bureau Northwest

The warm season is coming on in Peru, and its sweet onion crop is responding, suppliers say.

Robinson Fresh has added five new Peruvian growers this year, said Alan Guttmann, general manager of global vegetable sourcing for the Eden Prairie, Minn.-based company.

The North Carolina SweetPotato Commission has named Michelle Grainger its new executive director.

Wenatchee, Wash.-based Stemilt Growers will feature its A Half Mile Closer to the Moon high-altitude cherries beginning in late July and continuing on through August.

The coronavirus pandemic has hit Peru, and it has touched onion grower-shippers there, marketers say.

Oneonta Starr Ranch Growers expects a larger cherry crop this year, said Dan Davis, director of business development for the Yakima, Wash.-based marketer.