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Berries have great potential in Spain if large retailers cooperate

Raspberries and blueberries register biggest growth

"Berries have great potential in Spain if large retailers cooperate"

Blueberries and raspberries have recorded the fastest growth in recent years, mostly as a result of important varietal changes and new cultivation and management techniques, and the peak is still far from being reached.

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Spain: Warm winter forces early berry harvest for Onubafruit

Opening prices for Spanish berries have been lower this year as they enter a European market that is not ready to have the crop available so early.

This is the message from Onubafruit commercial director Carlos Esteve, who told www.freshfruitportal.com his company - Europe's leading blueberry exporter - was forced to start harvests early due to the effects of a warm winter.

He said berry demand was normal for this time of year, but supply was greater than usual.

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Onubafruit invests 1 million Euro in new experimental farm

Development program for new blueberry varieties
Onubafruit invests 1 million Euro in new experimental farm

Onubafruit has decided to invest one million Euro in the operation of a new experimental farm in Huelva.

The farm consists of eight hectares devoted to the testing and evaluation of new varieties belonging to the genera Fragaria, Vaccinium and Rubus, as well as to the development of new crops.

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Raspberry's varieties

We present raspberry varieties that Onubafruit produces and sells in exclusive; behind them there is an exhaustive work of research and development by the best professionals, and an important Onubafruit´s investment.

Our R&D department keeps working with advanced genetic improvement programs worldwide and on our own also.

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