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More demand for Hawaiian papayas Mangoes may follow from largest avocado marketer in California C ALIFORNIA'S biggest marketer of avocados has found a growing demand for Hawaiian papayas in Europe. Calavo Growers, traditionally a marketer of Californian avocados, distributes over Im bllb-cartons of the Kapoho Solo papaya annually, mostly within North America "Our unique variety of papaya has been building a steady business in Germany and Switzerland with several air shipments per week," international and diversified fresh products manager Jeff Long told Eurofruit Magazine "The Kapoho Solo variety is only grown commercially on the "Big Island" of Hawaii, where it has been adapted to the virgin volcanic soil conditions." The papaya is noted for its golden yellow colour when ripe Calavo was not able to exploit the problems in other avocado producing ares last year, even though other Cahiformian producers performed very well in Europe "We exported Eurofruit Magazine June 1994 F i ' alavo sells more than 1m boxes of papayas evety year very few avocados to Europa last seasol as we did not have the preferred 4kg carton W-- expect to be able to provide such a carton in the future," said Mr Long Calavo, celebrating its 70th anmvorsary this year, is also moving into mango distribution from Mexico and - South America. "The main varieties are Hadon, Tommy Atkins, Kent and Keiti. We feel mangoes are a natural complement to our well established avocado and papaya business and we anticipate our mangoes will also find their way on to European markets," said Mr Long. U 9.
Puerto Ricans profit from consistent volumes Supplier consolidates exports through major importers PURORICAN mango exporters are carving out new marketing opportunities in Europe because they are able to supply consistently large volumes of high quality fruit over long periods of the year. "It is of great benefit that we can source in volume a selected range of mangoes from a single origin for a large part of the year". Atlanta AG import manager Klaus Pape told Eurofruit Magazine Atlanta AG, along with other large European importers like Hag6 International in the Netherlands and Gost Tropical Produce in the UK, is expected to source largo volumes of mangoes from Fruits International, a senior mango producer in Puerto Rico The company, which operates two large mango farms on the Caribbean island, is preparing to export some 1 1m cartons of mangoes this season to Europe and the USA. It plans to supply Europe with some 180 containers of a range of high quality Pango Mango-branded mangoes from May through to September First arrivals were due into Rotterdam in the last week in April Puerto Rican mango exporters have been helped on by the sharp rise in mango imports into the European Union in recent years Total mango volumes imported into Germany have almost doubled to 9,000 tonnos in the last four years, Mr Papa said Mango exports to Europe from the USA have prospered against a downturn in shipments from Brazilm, Mexico and other established producing countries Puerto Rico is also only nine to 11 sailing days from Europe, almost a week shorter than most other major Latin American producing areas Meanwhile, the Bremen-based fruit importer is planning to make its firstever direct container deliveries to some of its major supermarket customers in Germany "We are able to do this because we can obtain regular supplies of consistently high quality fruit", Mr Pape Kent, wuch are avaiable in the largest volume, are expected to account for most of the fruit scheduled to arrive direct Fruits International is also planning to export Tommy Atkins, Haden and other smaller varieties like Parvin Meanwhile, All,inta is planning to test nrmrket a smiill but significant Atlantais testingexotic fruitshipmentsInlFCO containers volume of mangoes in IFCO containers this season. It is the first time the returnable packaging system developed on behalf of loading German food retailers has been used for mangoes. IFCO has already been employed widely on fresh fruit and vegetable shipments within Europe Its dovel- opers says it is now used on as many as six million trips every month, mostly inside the European Union I GbhM t~manigo a tk~ee years , , • -. ling e -. ',. three years the im"ngo ""i"ap y become popu lar InGermany~and the market still expandligraccording to Fruchthansa 4GmbH of Colcgne," i .,',ihe rate of growth has bccn particu. - larlystronglnirecent years, J-P Beltraml told Eurofrult Magazine. Three ycas ago It was only about 30 per cent ofcurrent volumes." The company sources almost all year -ound from South Africa, Ivory Coast Puerto Rico, Brazil, Peru and Mexico. More mangoes will be sourc-d from non-traditional producers, like Ecuador and Costa Rica. Varieties handled by \ However, it has been trialled increasingly in major fruit exporting countries like Israel, Chile, Argentina and Moiocco, where small shipments of citrus and other fresh fruit and vegetables have been made with positive results. For example, Atlanta's major Moroccan suppliers shipped approximately 30,000 units of tomatoes in IFCO containers this season against total imports from Morocco of more than 1.Om units. N sa'k vtIs - A 1 1 e' last, 'IVY e 4,_. s "_noERlthe~st p;cFrucitil c 9myAtklns., 'v " ," Mr'.. .'andKett . e.. / Is y,.,. , Mrpeft! attlutetherpangos Increas c opulri to a-itead I , qualitysligtly~decreaslng prlce.'sand .promotiodnal thlles. :- ',t rj,,F, - Frudithansarundertakes promotional weeks and months with food retailers, publishing ronsumer Information brochures ind recipes or using In-store sampling.-'tThat Is also a good opportunlty to getloplnlons about-the prod. uct directfromconsumers;','said'Mr Beltrami. - - Eurofruit Magazine Ma, 'J94 10.
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