China is now the world's most expensive apple producing country, reckons Maf-Roda's Jean-Christophe Cousin. It means Chinese growers are having to invest more in post-harvest systems to reduce their costs.

China invests to cut its production costs

Beijing-based business Guocool has won orders from offices and workplaces in China's major cities for its new fresh fruit vending machine. It's part of a big move into fresh produce convenience now underway in China

Fruit vending machine gets moving in China

British Cherry Growers' Matt Hancock explains how a £2m investment in new technology is helping sales at home and abroad.

British cherries set for big growth

IG International's Tarun Arora says India's appetite for imported fruit shows no signs of slowing. There are huge opportunities for growth, he says, and apples are only just the start of the boom for India.

India set for even more growth in imported fruit

Kay Bee Exports' Kaushal Khakhar sees great opportunities for high-quality fresh produce exports out of India. He talked to me at Pune packing and farming operations about his future plans.

India is growing its export portfolio

Monsanto's Bruno Libbrecht explains the implications of vertical farming not only for consumers but also for growers all over the world. There are some huge opportunities.

Vertical farming really is a revolution

Børge Larsen manages the only supermarket in a small village in the far north of Norway. When head office delivered 10 boxes of pineapples by mistake, he had to think on his feet and promote them heavily. Within days he was on the phone for 10 more boxes of the tropical fruit. There's a lesson for all of us.

Promotions work when you really need to sell fruit

Olav Grundnes is a second-generation potato and root vegetable grower. His farms located way north of the Arctic Circle makes him Europe's northernmost grower. Twenty-four hours of daylight during the short summer present their own challenges and opportunities to Olav, who has to plant and harvest his crop before the snows return. The intense light helps him to grow crops with intense flavour and packed with nutrients, he says.

Growing vegetables under the Midnight Sun

Robert Innes is hoping for his first commercial crop of strawberries on borrowed land on in the far north of Norway. The 25-year-old Englishman and his business partner Jan Åge Tyndum are now very probably the world's most northerly fruit growers, and if this season goes well they have big ambitions to expand.

Growing strawberries north of the Arctic Circle

Midnight Sun: Ulrike Naumann and Kristin Sørensen of Tromspotet are marketing potatoes and fresh vegetables grown in constant daylight in the far north of Norway. They say the short growing season yields produce of exceptional flavour and nutrient content. No surprise that demand for their produce is growing fast.

Midnight Sun yields produce with exceptional flavour

Chris White is a fresh fruit and vegetable expert who's been writing and speaking about the sector for 30 years as managing director of the world's leading fresh produce publisher and congress organiser.

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