Cywain Market Intelligence

Fresh Produce

Latest figures from Marks and Spencer reveal British-grown Cox has for the first time overtaken import Pink Lady, with sales of Cox now 50 per cent higher than former favourite Pink Lady. Reducing the potato's carbon footprint will be part of the discussions at the Potato Council’s BP2011 seminar that will be taking place at the end of November. Also in the headlines, Chinese scientists claim to have created a range of super-crops by blasting seeds into space so their genes are mutated by cosmic radiation.