harvest
Stories tagged “harvest”
Langhe vineyard workers: Alba marches against caporalato
The bishop of Alba joined unions and Caritas after a harvest in which volunteers counted 16 makeshift camps and inspectors found breaches at nearly eight in ten firms checked.
Ivory Coast's cocoa crop shrinks as dry weather drags on
Port arrivals in the world's top cocoa producer are tracking up to 17% behind last year, with an EU deforestation deadline adding pressure to ship before year-end.
Morocco's bumper olive harvest could halve oil prices
Growers in Ouezzane, Chefchaouen and Ksar El Kebir expect 40 to 80 percent more fruit this year, with oil prices set to fall below MAD 35 a liter.
France's 2026 wine harvest falls to its lowest in years
A hot, dry summer and a shrinking vineyard pushed France's grape harvest well below average, with Champagne and Beaujolais hit hardest of all.
Italy's olive oil stocks surge as new harvest floods in
Italian reserves are up 47% on last year just as Spain and Greece start pressing a bigger 2026 crop, pushing early prices down across the Mediterranean.
Kashmir saffron nears flowering after a 31.2°C October day
Growers around Pampore say the soil is too dry for the crocus to flower well. The weather office promises light rain on 10 October, and the last official harvest figure is three years old.
Mexico wine grape production rises to 83,178 tonnes in 2025
The agriculture ministry counts 6,071 more tonnes than in 2023 and a crop worth 22.8% more. Baja California leads, and three states grow three quarters of the total.
Ardèche chestnut harvest falls to 2,000 tonnes in drought
France's main chestnut region expects less than half a normal crop after a dry summer. Growers also warn that trees weakened by ink disease may not produce again.
Chilean cherries face spring rain ahead of a record crop
The USDA expects Chile to grow 727,000 tonnes of cherries this season, but a strong El Niño is bringing rain and wind to central Chile just as the orchards flower.
Turkish hazelnut prices sit a quarter below the state floor
Ordu traders paid 180-190 lira a kilo on 27 September against the state's 250, as a crop of up to 810,000 tonnes meets trade inspectors in the Black Sea hazelnut belt.
Olive oil harvest 2026 starts early in Jaén, Spain
Green picking has begun in the world's biggest olive oil province, eight days before Andalusia publishes its first forecast for the 2026/27 campaign.
Peru blueberry exports cut again as El Niño strengthens
Proarándanos now expects 382,000 tonnes for 2026-27, 6% below its August figure, as Peru's forecasters see an extraordinary coastal El Niño lasting into 2027.
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