Agriculture

Text: Chris Graeme Photo: Fernando Bento (ICPT) Low productivity is one of the main stumbling blocks to economic growth in Portugal according to Portugal’s Minister of Finances, Joaquim Miranda [...]

Patrick Fitzgerald, an internationally recognised innovator in the plant industry talks to John Paul Prior, Irish-Portugal Business Network Porto Chair and Director of Sales Strategy & Tech [...]

The freshly bagged salad and veg company Vitacress, part of the RAR Group, expects to close 2024 with a turnover of €45 million, up €5 million on 2023. The company sells 15% of its produce [...]

The price of olive oil in the European Union skyrocketed by 50% in January on the same month in 2023 but prices in Portugal went up by 69%, higher than either Spain or Greece. The statistics, [...]

As if the Ukraine conflict wasn’t bad enough, some 933 Portuguese exporters have now been caught in the Middle East crossfire according to an exclusive report by the online news source Eco. [...]

There will be a record number of 50 Portuguese companies at Fruit Attraction in Madrid early next month — one of the largest fruit and vegetable fairs in the world that runs between October 3-5. [...]

Portugal saw the highest increase in agricultural produce prices in the EU in the second quarter of 2023 with prices up 22% compared to an average 2% price hike in the rest of the EU. This is [...]

Portugal’s autumn/winter cereals harvest has been the worst ever since records began according to the country’s national statistics institute INE. “The cereals harvest for grain for [...]

The price of olive oil in Portugal has spiralled to new records because of the drought in Spain that has driven up prices to a 30-year high on the international markets with little chance of [...]

The cultivation of cannabis for medicinal purposes in Portugal has bloomed in recent years with 20 licenses to farm the plant issued in 2022 and 27 licenses for export granted in the same year. [...]