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The Market Status for week 45 shows a lower supply of Peruvian blueberries in the Chinese markets, with better prices than the previous week.

The shine may be coming off one of horticulture's stellar export performers with research suggesting Australian table grape export volumes experienced a decline this season. Rabobank's Table Grape Update 2024, released in September, says exports of table grapes were down 19 per cent for the 2024 season. One of the main reasons given is due to lower demand from China, which it says has been consistently decreasing its imports. In fact, China is growing more table grapes than ever before with China and India becoming more significant in global table grape trade, transitioning from net importers to net exporters, according to the Rabobank report. Their joint export volumes increased by 183 per cent over 10 seasons, accounting for 19pc of global exports in 2023/24. Report co-author, RaboResearch analyst Pia Piggott said volumes to China were down by 29 per cent year-on-year. Exports also recorded significant declines to Vietnam (down 49pc) and Thailand (down by 38pc). "Indonesia mai

Sustainable Wine Roundtable (SWR) has completed the initial phase of a new benchmarking scheme which aims to evaluate the world’s various sustainability standards against a single set of criteria, Harpers can reveal. Today, the wine sector operates within a framework of around 40 sustainability standards globally. If smaller, niche certifications are considered, the number reaches nearly 70. With those numbers rising all the time, producers, distributors and retailers are facing increasing complexity when it comes to deciding how vineyards operate and wine is marketed. Putting forward its own answer to this complexity is SWR’s Global Reference Framework (GRF). Announced last year, the GRF is not looking to replace local standards but instead has begun to assess existing certifications by determining how well they align with a broader definition of sustainability and ensure transparency across the wine sector. Dr Peter Stanbury, research director at SWR, told Harpers: “At the end of