Agriculture

Cork giant Corticeira Amorim was distinguished by the prestigious magazine World Finance consolidating its position as an international benchmark wine sector products industry. The Portuguese [...]

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 [...]