Fruit

The Turkish Economy Ministry has said Iraq's decision to ban tomato imports is "seasonal and routine" and will not have any negative impact specifically on Turkey's tomato exports to the country. 

Iraq has announced it would ban tomato imports from Turkey as of May 21 to protect its own producers, according to an official statement from the Turkish Economy Ministry. 

It was the tomato that left its mark on the meeting at Sochi between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian President Vladimir Putin. It was announced that the two leaders were able to reach a consensus on a complicated and critical matter like Syria but were not able to agree on the one issue on tomatoes.  

A relatively brief but violent hail storm Tuesday in the region of Velvedo in Kozani, northern Greece, destroyed an estimated 70 percent of the area's fruit crop, according to local authorities, who said that the destruction has left farmers in despair.

Asked about different interpretations of the Commission's decision to allow Croatian wine producers to use the name of Teran even though Slovenia had secured protected designation of origin (PDO) status for it, Hogan said there "may be a misunderstanding over the use of the Teran name referring only to a grape variety".

From the time a farmer harvests strawberries or green beans, they will last — at best — three weeks before they start to rot. It takes a week or two to reach the grocery store and then your fridge, giving you only a few days to eat them.

The government of Bulgaria has approved the country's move to host a world congress and assembly of vine growers and wine producers at the and of May and early in June.

The forum will give huge publicity to Bulgarian wine and to Bulgaria itself as a wine-producing country, the cabinet has said in a statement.

Bulgaria will host in parallel the 40th World Congress of Vine and Wine and the 15th General Assembly of the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) next year, the country's Agriculture Ministry has announced.

The decision was taken by a vote of OIV member states at a meeting of the organisation's Executive Committee in Paris on Saturday.

You can make your own natural sexual Viagra by mixing some common fruits. All you’ll need for this formula is a watermelon and a lemon. Watermelon includes citrulline and lycopene, two molecules that are considered aphrodisiac. Start by chopping a watermelon and using a juicer to get about 1L of watermelon juice. Next, pour the juice into a saucepan.

The phoenix of the fruit world must definitely be the banana. Just like the legendary miracle bird reborn from its ashes, a banana tree is reborn from its own roots every year. In reality, a banana tree is not a tree; it is only an enormous herbaceous plant, its trunk being a sturdy stem to carry the flowering head.