Latest News From Guatemala

Year-round grower-shipper and marketer of fresh fruit said adding production helps the company provide its PureHeart mini watermelon 52 weeks a year. 

The Guatemalan fresh produce supply chain is experiencing logistics delays due to protests and road closures, says the Guatemala Produce Trade Association.

Companies increasingly look to fruits and vegetables grown in other countries that provide ideal growing conditions and a year-round supply of fresh produce.

The USDA has drafted a pest risk assessment for the importation of fresh Hass avocados  from Guatemala. 

Coral Gables, Fla.-based Fresh Del Monte, a vertically integrated grower and marketer of fruits and vegetables,  is entering the row-crop business.

The Guatemalan Produce Trade Association’s website now showcases importer and member videos for retailers and foodservice to meet the importers and industry service providers.

The subject line of the e-mail certainly grabs your attention.

Expect a wide variety of fruits and vegetables from the Guatemala Produce Trade Association at the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit.

Guatemala’s exports of specialty vegetables and fruits to the U.S. have been steadily rising over the past two decades.

Growers of heirloom tomatoes in Guatemala are looking to the U.S. as a growth market.

UPDATED: The U.S. and Guatemala are pursuing a program to boost H-2A workers from that country, in an effort to stem what the Department of Homeland Security calls irregular migration patterns.

Law enforcement officers at Port Hueneme, California, recently seized almost 222 pounds of cocaine concealed in vessels from Ecuador and Guatemala carrying produce.

AgroAmerica, a Central and South American grower and exporter of bananas and pineapples, has donated $50,000 to conservation efforts of a tropical forest known as the Maya Biosphere Reserve.

Some fruit and vegetable production and movement could be affected by the recent deadly eruption of the Fuego volcano in Guatemala.

One Banana has aligned its corporate social responsibility programs to match the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, a series of goals aimed at addressing the world’s most pressing issues by 2030.