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Food industry globalisation on show at Anuga 2011

Oct 13, 2011

Further globalisation of the food industry was in evidence at the world’s biggest food and drink trade fair “Anuga 2011” with 86% of the exhibitors coming from outside Germany. Of the exhibitor stalls on show at koelnmesse centre in Cologne which ends today(Oct12), China accounted for 407, India supplied 60 stalls, the US 165 and 127 from the UK.
Source: www.foodmanufacture.co.uk

International vegetable campaign starts in Germany

Sep 21, 2011

In order to strengthen the confidence in fresh vegetables with the German consumer a leaflet has been made available in German supermarkets and a radio spot is being broadcast almost 600 times all over Germany about healthy fruit and vegetables. The campaign is a combined initiative of three horticultural organisations in Belgium (Flandria), Germany (BVEO) and the Netherlands (GroentenFruit Bureau). This campaign has been named: 'Fresh vegetables, healthy and safe' and is part of the German information establishment '5 am Tag'. In the meantime the German supermarket chains have ordered a record number of more than 5 million leaflets. This folder came to be with the assistance of the German ministry of agriculture (BMELV).
Source: www.freshplaza.com

Germans are the world’s leading juice drinkers

Sep 07, 2011

This year, Anuga Drinks, one of the ten trade shows at Anuga, will once again offer trade buyers and interested caterers an expert information and ordering platform for beverages. Around 500 exhibitors from 61 countries will be concentrated at Anuga Drinks, including many market-leading companies as well as small and medium-sized suppliers. Anuga Drinks is the only trade show worldwide to cover the complete spectrum of drinks and beverages including non-alcoholic beverages, wine, beer, spirits and trend drinks. In this way, the fair provides a comprehensive overview of the international competitors in this sector.
Source: www.freshplaza.com

Beer exports flow into German, Czech markets

Aug 19, 2011

207 mln liters of the alcoholic beverage were exported from Poland with the breweries aiming at increasing this result by twenty percent this year. According to the data from the Central Statistical Office (GUS), the value of such exports – mostly to Hungary and the Czech Republic - stood at 75,9 mln euro and the dynamic exports growth is confirmed by the breweries themselves. According to Ziemowit Falat, a beer market expert quoted in the daily, the growth can be attributed to competitive prices, economic crisis and uncertainty on the market. The hops beverage is also popular with growing communities of Poles abroad, hence the presence of Ireland in the top 10 of foreign destinations for beer brewed in Poland.
Source: www.thenews.pl

Maersk Line says Asia freight rates very low

Jun 20, 2011

Container shipping rates are still low on Asia-to-Europe routes because of a glut of capacity entering the market, the head of the world's biggest container shipping company told a German paper. "Freight rates for Africa and South America and on transatlantic routes are sound, but very low on routes between Asia and Northern Europe," Eivind Kolding, head of Maersk Line, told German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He said this was down to a flood of container ships being brought into service on the route in April and May and that some shippers were therefore trying to fill up the capacity on the spot market.
Source: www.freshplaza.com

German households bought more mangos than ever in first quarter

Jun 15, 2011

German households bought 9% more mango's during the first quarter of this year than in the first quarter of 2010. The number of purchases was even higher than ever before, as concluded by the German market information bureau AMI. The increase was only caused by the very large purchase volumes in the month of March. The large purchases were combined with relatively low prices. With an average of euro 1,63/kg the average purchase price was way below that of March 2010, when the consumer paid euro 2,47/kg on average.
Source: www.freshplaza.com

E. coli crisis: Sales of fruits and vegetables plunge, prices fall in EU

Jun 09, 2011

Losses in the European agriculture industry are mounting as the crisis over the deadly E. coli outbreak in Germany does not seem to have subsided. With consumer confidence in salad produce plummeting across the European Union (EU), vegetable sales have plunged. There has been a dramatic fall in prices, with farmers forced to dispose of large quantities of unwanted produce. German fruit- and vegetable-growers are facing "their worst crisis since Chernobyl," said Germany's Farm Association President Gerd Sonnleitner, referring to the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine. "The economic problems are growing by the day."
Source: www.fnbnews.com

Food, energy security on table at big Europe-Asia meet

Jun 07, 2011

Forty-six nations from Asia and Europe gathered here Monday eyeing ways of averting a global food crisis and fresh nuclear disasters, but looked set to diverge on human rights or a new boss for the IMF. Fom tiny Laos to EU powerhouse Germany, foreign ministers from the Asia-Europe ASEM group -- representing 60 percent of the world's population and GDP -- kicked off two days of talks on what they described as "non-traditional security challenges".
Source: www.google.com

Germany: Planned change new crops delayed

May 13, 2011

Because of frost damage in a number of early German cultivation areas (federal state Bavaria) the planned change from potato harvest 2010 to the first potato harvest 2011 will take place later. In other words week 27 (first week in July) will not be achieved in general. Based on the limited European stock of the 2010 harvest the tension on the potato market increases at the moment. Insiders see the market as being a powderkeg. The market price will increase is the opinion. The question, however, is when and by how much. Last week without too much trouble potatoes for chips were sold, to-day the supplier waits for the market to come to him, as a result of which the day-prices can go to a higher level.
Source: www.freshplaza.com

Traditionally German demand for spinach increases during Easter week

Apr 27, 2011

The demand for spinach in Germany traditionally increases considerably during Easter week. During the last three years sales increased by between 80 and 125%. After Easter sales decrease again. For that matter there are hardly any other weeks in which sales of spinach increase to this extent. This is the conclusion of the German market bureau AMI from figures published by Gfk.
Source: www.freshplaza.com

Biofach: "Organic rising with chances in Germany"

Feb 22, 2011

The 'Biofach' is the yearly international fair for organic products in Neurenberg, Germany. Germany is known for the large amount of organic produce in the supermarkets. It's not just organic production methods that are getting more attention from the consumer. Other sustainable production methods in which products are produced energy efficiently or where climate change is considered are also receiving more attention.
Source: www.freshplaza.com

Sikkim participates in the World Organic Trade Fair in Germany

Feb 21, 2011

A team from the Agriculture and Horticulture department headed by Shri P.L.Subba, Chairman, Farmer’s welfare Board participated in the World Organic Trade fair ( Bio fach 2011) in Nuremberg, Germany being held from 16th to 19th February 2011.The team includes Shri Vishal Chauhan, Secretary, FSAD and HCCDand two officers of the department. The main objective of the tour is to showcase Sikkim as an organic state of the India and also see possibilities of tie up for marketing of organic produces of the state.
Source: isikkim.com

Germany criticizing Russia, Ukraine for grain export restrictions

Jan 25, 2011

Germany is criticizing Russia and Ukraine for grain export restrictions, while the two countries explain their measures by the extraordinary situation on the grain market due to heavy drought in 2010 and criticizes the European Union for hindering grain supplies from the CIS states.
Source: www.kyivpost.com

Moldova bans cheese import from Bulgaria, meat import from Germany

Jan 17, 2011

To the meat and sheep’s cheese fans: pigs and poultry in Germany are infected with dioxin, while foot-and-mouth is raging in Bulgaria, reads the Moldovan edition of Komsomolskaya Pravda daily. Moldova banned the meat import from Germany. The German deliveries make a little bit less than 5% of the entire import volumes. “Both the German and our authorities reacted immediately,” said Andrey Ganya, director of the directorate for risk management and international trade at the Agency for sanitary and veterinary control with the Ministry of Agriculture. However, another “scourge” occurred recently – the foot-and-mouth diseases in Bulgaria, which affects the cattle.
Source: www.focus-fen.net

Abu Dhabi:No imports of dioxin-contaminated products from Germany

Jan 12, 2011

Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority (ADFCA) confirmed that no products with dioxin is imported from Germnay, reports Al Khaleej newspaper. Mohamed Jalal Al Reyaysa, Director of Communications and Community Service, ADFCA, said such products were exported onl
Source: www.emirates247.com

Germany says no health risk from farm exports

Jan 11, 2011

Germany said Monday that its farm exports posed no health risk as it sought to convince Slovakia and South Korea to lift bans imposed after a dioxin scare, as restrictions on 3,000 farms were removed. A spokesman for the German agriculture ministry said that EU member Slovakia stopping the sale of German poultry meat and eggs, pending tests, was "unfounded ... and completely unacceptable".
Source: www.expatica.com

Veterinary Service: Azerbaijan does not import dioxin contaminated products from Germany

Jan 10, 2011

Azerbaijan does not import eggs and poultry meat from Germany, which removes the fear of a possible import of dioxin contaminated poultry products, the Azerbaijani Agriculture Ministry's State Veterinary Service's spokesman Yolchu Khanveli said today. "Azerbaijan imports eggs and poultry meat from Turkey for food needs, from Iran for breeding pedigree birds on poultry farms," Khanveli said.
Source: http://en.trend.az

Russia tightens food imports from Germany amid dioxin scare

Jan 10, 2011

Russia's agriculture watchdog has stepped up monitoring of imports of animal origin food products from Germany and some other EU countries in the wake of discovery of dangerous levels of dioxins in the fodder used by German farmers.
Source: www.zeenews.com

Germany to offer technologies for Indian food parks and abattoirs

Nov 18, 2010

India and Germany have stressed transfer of technology and investment promotion in the field of food processing and allied sectors in the country. “Germany is one of the leading producers of wine in the world as well as a big importer of wine. The Grape Processing Board can collaborate with Germany in the field of grape processing technology. Germany can also provide technical assistance to National Meat and Poultry Processing Board, because that country is a leading producer of processed meat,” minister of food processing industries Subodh Kant Sahai said after meeting German minister of food, agriculture and consumer protection Ilse Aigner.
Source: www.fnbnews.com

German cooperation in food processing

Nov 16, 2010

Union Minister for Food Processing Industries Subodh Kant Sahai has said that India is set to witness the next revolution in Food Processing Industry. Speaking after meeting the German Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, H.E. Ilse Aigner, he said Germany should coperate in the field of food processing and the allied sectors including the packaging sector. He sought transfer of technology and investment promotion in the sector. Sahai stressed that investment can be made in Mega Food Parks that ensure value addition of agricultural commodities, including poultry, meat, dairy, fisheries and would facilitiate state-of-the-art processing technology, quality assurance through better processing control and capacity building.
Source: http://news.oneindia.in

India, Germany to sign joint declaration on food sector

Nov 15, 2010

India and Germany will sign a joint declaration next week to further strengthen bilateral cooperation in agriculture and food processing sector. Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar , Food Processing Minister Subodh Kant Sahai and German Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner will sign the declaration, according to a release issued by the German Embassy in India. "India is an important partner for Germany. We want to further develop Indo-German cooperation and together face global challenges such as the fight against hunger and climate change.... I look forward to the talks I will hold in India," Aigner stated in the release. The German agriculture minister, who will be here on a four-day visit starting November 14, will hold talks with ministers to explore ways to intensify bilateral cooperation in food processing sector, the release said. She will also look at strengthening participation in food fairs in Germany and vice-versa, flow of investment and transfer of technology. Aigner will attend an Indo-German business forum in New Delhi and thereafter visit German projects run by the Karl Kubel Foundation in Madhya Pradesh and talk on food security in Chennai.
Source: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com

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