Reader’s digest September 2020

In September 2020, we published the following articles:

• California 2020: Crop situation as of 29 August, projection to 5 September.
• Morocco has gone from being an exporting country a few decades ago to heavily relying on imports.
• In Ontario, where enhanced safety measures are in place at all facilities, the tomato harvest is looking really good.
• In the province of Mendoza, Argentina, the government launched a new financing plan in order to increase the surfaces planted with processing tomatoes.
• In California, the crop is running well although the yield is slightly lower, due to heat waves in August.
• WPTC Crop Update as of 4 September 2020.
• California 2020: Crop situation as of 5 September, projection to 12 September.
• Recent research uncovered the first known gene to impart resistance to a particular strain ('race 1') of the bacterium causing speck disease.
• In Spain, Andalusia is having one of the worst years, due to adverse weather conditions, the onset of diseases and pest infestations.
• US exports recorded a significant decline over the last 12 months.
• California 2020: Crop situation as of 12 September, projection to 19 September.
• The Mutti Group launched a new cutting-edge project, Sul Campo. They use InstaFactory, a mobile plant that allows harvesting and processing in the field, at the optimum time.
• Paste Prices: USA, Spain, Portugal, Italy, China, Chile.
• A free webinar was organized on September 21 by the members of the VALUMICS project, on Processed tomatoes food chain.
• The U.S. pulled back from broad import bans for tomato products from China's Xinjiang region.
• Global Trade of Tomato Paste, updated 15 September 2020.
• Agricultural practices, life-cycle and regulatory framework of biodegradable plastics (part 1 and 2)
• The 2020 annual Tomato Disease Workshop, organized by UC Davis, will exceptionally take place online on 4 November 2020 and will be free of charge.
• WPTC Crop Update as of 18 September 2020.
• California 2020: Crop situation as of 19 September, projection to 26 September.
• In California, in spite of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the harvest is successful and the yields are good.
• In Italy, due to tropical weather conditions and difficulties linked to Covid, Apo Conerpo ended the harvest prematurely.
• IFT developed a robotic aseptic filler, combining an aseptic filling head and a robotic arm from automotive assembly lines.
• Europe plans to tighten the climate regulation, which could cost some of the biggest polluters millions of euros.
• The increasing temperatures have an impact on agricultural production but specially on processing tomatoes. This applies to California, but also to Spain, Greece and Italy, and probably more.
• California 2020: Crop situation as of 26 September, projection to 3 October.
• Lycored doubled its tomato-based lycopene production, following a here-year investment.

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