Europe’s Grape Season: Continued Mixed Seasonal Progress

This year’s grape season faced challenging and demanding conditions. The southern regions of Europe experienced significant weather fluctuations during the growth phase, making accurate predictions about the season’s outcome difficult. Although the weather situation has …

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Stone fruit season is accompanied by challenging weather conditions in Southern Europe

Peaches and Nectarines Italy Currently, peaches and nectarines come from various cultivation areas in southern Italy, including Calabria, Campania, Basilicata, and Apulia. Availability has improved, although there is still a shortage of larger calibers. On …

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Harvest forecasts for grapes in Europe and Egypt

There are some challenges for grape producers this year:   Egypt Weather conditions during the flowering and growing phases were challenging this year, resulting in reduced yields of light seedless grapes. In some regions, where …

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KÖLLA GmbH & Co.KG adds to its management team

KÖLLA GmbH & Co.KG, as one of the leading companies in the fruit and vegetable sector, has appointed Mr. Alberto Hoffmann as Managing Director as of 1.6.2023. With this important personnel decision, the KÖLLA Group …

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Cabbage vegetables from Italy, Spain and France

Good qualities and first programmes The production of various cabbage vegetables from Italy (Apulia) and Spain (Murcia) will start within the next weeks with comparable high temperatures. Due to that, the products have lost quality, …

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Grapes Overseas Trauben

A grape season of special importance

During the producer visits we could see a clear trend for the upcoming season; due to the numerous challenges in the last 2 years (logistical planning due to the pandemic, increased transport costs, unsatisfactory qualities, …

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Winter vegetables from Almeria

A rather late start to the season … Looking back, the 2021/22 season in the Spanish production area in Almeria proved to be quite satisfactory. This year, we notice at KÖLLA that only a few …

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The first signs of winter: Chestnuts

We at KÖLLA are almost at the peak of the season for chestnuts from Italy, Greece and Spain. Starting in week 38, we expect very good harvest results up to and including week 48. 30% …

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Grape harvest in Egypt, Spain and Italy

Egypt Varieties: Starlight (picture), Prime Seedless (picture), Black Velvet, Scarlet Dew, Autumn Royal©, ARRA© Harvest in May with 10 days delay With the focus on white seedless grapes, the harvest in Giza 2021 has already …

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Preview stone fruit

The European stone fruit sector is currently affected by 2 major issues. Firstly, of course, the Corona crisis and secondly the poor results of recent years. Damage caused by frost in various growing areas and …

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