Nichola McGregor

Apple and pear stocks in the UK are reducing broadly on plan for a transition over to Southern Hemisphere arrivals during the summer months.

It is citrus season in South Australia, and the fruit is highly anticipated at the South Australian Produce Market.

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The strawberry season got underway three weeks ago at Fife Fruits in Fife, Scotland; this was around normal timing for the picking to start.

The New Zealand kiwifruit season is progressing well with a large crop of more than 220 million trays to sell.

Going into winter, the weather has been wet but also mildly warm at Thorndon Park Produce near Adelaide in South Australia.

Potato growers are nearing the end of last year's crop, and for the majority it will be a year to forget.

Australia produces avocados year-round, and at the moment Queensland is in peak production, particularly North and Central Queensland.

The main volume in the Peruvian avocado harvest started in week 12, 16th March. According to Mirko Infantes from Pacific Produce, there was some non-accredited fruit being harvested as early as January.

Kwek Global Pte Ltd began importing grapes from Australia in mid-April. Usually, they will try to bridge the supply gap by importing Australian grapes to replace the South African grapes, which end in March.