Fruitnet podcasts

Fruitnet's Mike Knowles speaks to various members of the Crimson Snow apple consortium, including its new member, French group Mesfruits. Featuring, in order of appearance: Francois and Jacques Mestre, Mesfruits (France; Luis and Richard Clementi, Fratelli Clementi (Italy); Gojko Zagorac, Verda Vivo (Serbia); Eraldo Barale, Sanifrutta (Italy); Andrea Iseppi, Iseppi Frutta (Switzerland); Gerhard Dichgans, Vog (Italy); Jürgen Braun, Kiku Variety Management.

FPJ editor Michael Barker chats to Daniel Gunner of ISS, the winner of the MorePeople Young Person of the Year category in the 2016 UK Fruit & Vegetable Awards

Mike Knowles is joined in London by Bryan Roberts of TCC Global and Nina Pullman of the Fresh Produce Journal to consider a whole trolley-load of new ideas and trends in the international food retail industry that are having a direct impact on the fresh fruit and vegetable business.

Mike Knowles is joined in Madrid by Michael Barker, Maura Maxwell and Felix Moritz to discuss Spanish fruit exports, red-fleshed apples, pink tomatoes and an unfolding paella scandal.

Robert Verloop of marketing cooperative Naturipe Farms says investment in the Asian market is starting to generate a significant return as demand for fresh berries increases.

Eurofruit editor Mike Knowles hears from Fabio Zanesco of Italian marketer VI.P Val Venosta at Asia Fruit Logistica in Hong Kong about the progress being made to develop Italy's apple exports to Asian markets.

Eurofruit editor Mike Knowles speaks to Daniel Soares of French interprofessional organisation Interfel at Asia Fruit Logistica in Hong Kong about France's growing export trade to Asia.

Senior reporter Tom Joyce speaks to a number of the berry category's major players at the Global Berry Congress in Rotterdam

Elsa Muller and Dani Heyns tell Eurofruit editor Mike Knowles how the Sapo Trust is working to develop new fruit varieties, including a much redder strain of Gala apple called Bigbucks that is set to become a firm favourite among South African growers.

South African breeder Wim van Rijswijk explains how his Rosenhof Nursery in the Western Cape can act as an engine room for innovation in the country’s fruit export industry.