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[Reporter Seong-je Cho, Korea Agricultural and Fishery Newspaper] The Cheongdo Peach Research Institute under the Gyeongbuk Agricultural Research and Extension Services announced that it has developed a new variety of flat peach, ‘Saebbitbando’, which has recently become a hot topic on social media, for the first time in Korea and has applied for variety protection to the National Agricultural Products Resource Center. According to the Gyeongbuk Agricultural Research and Extension Services, ‘Saebbitbando’ is a variety that was finally selected in 2024 after artificially crossbreeding ‘Daegubo’ and ‘Mansaengyudobando’ in 2018 and cultivating seedlings, and evaluating growth and fruit characteristics. It is smaller and flatter than regular peaches, so it is called ‘flat peach’ or ‘donut peach’.

(Agraria.pe) In January 2025, Hong Kong processed the largest number of containers of Chilean cherries since the pandemic, with 6,500 containers originating from Chile. These shipments mainly served mainland Chinese markets.

Like all regional economies and fruit production in general, the production of industrial peaches in Argentina is going through a deep crisis. In the Mendoza Valle de Uco, there is a decrease in the number of producers and the few that remain are increasing the area under cultivation. Added to this is a significant aging of the fruit trees, which implies low production and poor quality of the fruit. Added to this scenario, which includes low prices per kilo of fruit that are not enough to meet the high production costs, is the fact that marketing agencies have declared war on cans, the packaging in which peaches have historically been sold, according to research carried out by colleague from Mendoza, Pablo Pérez Delgado. Advertisers argue that this system of conservation and sale is the reason why around 25 to 30 million of these cans are currently piled up in the warehouses of large supermarket chains without selling them. In this diagnosis they seem to ignore the fact that ...