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Core Tip: According to SeafoodMedia, Vietnam's pangasius exports to the EU totaled $61 million in the first four months of this year. Among these, exports to the Netherlands exceeded $17 million, a year-on-year increase of 15%, exports to Italy surpassed $5 million, a year-on-year increase of 71%, and exports to Belgium reached $6 million, a year-on-year increase of 10%.

During the weekend, the fourth edition of "Trufar", the already popular Black Truffle Festival, was held in the Buenos Aires town of Espartillar, Saavedra district. As every year, the event aimed to highlight and boost an emerging production with high added value such as truffle cultivation, through which Argentina can position itself in the most demanding global markets. The event, which highlighted the benefits of truffles – an underground fungus (Tuber melanosporum) considered the "black diamond" of gastronomy – was attended by the Minister of Agrarian Development of the province, Javier Rodríguez; the Government Secretary of Saavedra, Mariano Mansilla; and the president of Trufas Del Nuevo Mundo, Juan Carlos La Grotteria, one of the pioneering ventures in that productive sector. "In the last 5 years, productive diversification in our province has grown substantially. Five years ago, for many it was unthinkable to have a Buenos Aires province with olive trees, wines, and ...

Bulgaria is among the market leaders in white and black truffle exports in Europe, but what efforts lie behind such a business and whether farmers can rely on a steady income from cultural truffle plantations, Atanas Atanasov told Agri.BG, who together with Dimitar Dimitrov are marketing cultivated saplings infected with the delicacy mushroom's mycelium on the Bulgarian market. "We offer 18 types of saplings on the market, which are of French origin. Currently, 90% of truffle production in Europe comes from such plantations," Atanas Atanasov commented on the quality of his production. He has already created 50 decares of new plantations in the Balchik region and relies on the harvest from around 40 decares of an old, already fruiting forest. Among the tree species "infected" with truffles are oak, sessile oak, linden, pine, hazel, and hornbeam. Atanasov adds that interest in saplings is currently increasing, with demand in Dobruja, Montana region, Plovdiv region, and the Balkan ...