India: Additional Tariffs

On June 16, 2019, India imposed higher customs duties on 28 products imported from the US, including almonds and walnuts, among other products.

Vietnam: Raw Cashew Nut Standard

On June 12, 2019, the Vietnam Cashew Association (VINACAS) announced the publication of the 1st edition of Vietnamese Standard TCVN 12380:2018: Raw cashew nut (RCN) – Technical requirements.

Great Success for the INC Academia Executive Program for the Second Consecutive Year

The second edition of the INC Academia, Executive Program on Nuts and Dried Fruits, closed on May 21, 2019, with a total of 51 students from 25 countries, 21% more than in the previous edition. With this success, the INC Academia continues to grow as the education program for food industry professionals to learn about the basics of the nut and dried fruit business.

Great Success for the INC Academia Executive Program for the Second Consecutive Year

The second edition of the INC Academia, Executive Program on Nuts and Dried Fruits, closed on May 21, 2019, with a total of 51 students from 25 countries, 21% more than in the previous edition. With this success, the INC Academia continues to grow as the education program for food industry professionals to learn about the basics of the nut and dried fruit business.

China International Tree Nuts Conference 2019

The Conference aims at improving exchanges between domestic and international enterprises to promote a healthy and order development of the nuts industry. Experts from over 20 tree nuts producing countries or regions will be invited to the conference to share their opinions on the global market and related policies. It will be a great reference […]

Transposons played a major role in the diversification between the closely related almond (Prunus dulcis) and peach (P. persica) genomes: Results from the almond genome sequence.

Combining both short and long-read sequencing, we have estimated the almond Prunus dulcis cv. Texas genome size in 235 Mbp and assembled 227.6 Mb of its sequence. The highly heterozygous compact genome of Texas comprises eight chromosomes, to which we have anchored over 91% of the assembly. We annotated 27,042 protein-coding genes and 6,800 non-coding […]

23rd Food & Hotel China 2019

After 24 years of development, FHC has become the industry's leading trade show. It is a platform for food and hospitality industry to enter the Chinese food and beverage market. The last exhibition hosted 3,000 exhibitors from 48 countries and regions. The exhibition area has expanded to 120,000 square meters, and the scale is beyond […]