Date growing: Will the crisis give nature a chance?
In 2022, date production in Tunisia went through a major crisis. The reasons were complex, ranging from climate change to panicked farmers using pesticides. But there is a happy ending for nature.
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In 2022, date production in Tunisia went through a major crisis. The reasons were complex, ranging from climate change to panicked farmers using pesticides. But there is a happy ending for nature.
Wine that's sold in bag-in-box packaging is often viewed as inferior – unfairly so! We've added quality wines from two Swiss producers to our range, all packaged as boxed wine, which offers several advantages.
Our Dutch wholesale subsidiary is sitting on 175 tonnes of dried mangos. This alone should be reason enough to worry. But on top of that, the new mango season has already begun and production in Burkina Faso is powering up.
Premium Greek olive oil and special olive-based products: new in our shop supplied by Rolf Roost and Sonja Roost-Weideli. After more than 25 years of selling directly to customers, they have now entrusted us with their remarkable business.
If you want to buy honey produced in Switzerland or Germany, you'll find it at farm shops or delis. But you're unlikely to find it at the supermarket and gebana doesn't carry it either. The reason is simple: local beekeepers don't produce enough to meet the current demand.
Our Brazil nuts come from Coopavam in Brazil. The cooperative provides an income to more than 300 families in the heart of the rainforest. Co-founder Luzirene Coelho Lustosa explains how she helped make the small-scale project a success and thereby protect the forest in a country where deforestation and huge monocultures are everywhere.
In coffee production, the soil, location and climate of the regions in which our coffee is grown determine its taste. But what happens to the coffee immediately after harvesting plays an equally important role when it comes to aroma. And this is where the honey processing method stands out.
We are constantly looking for leaders for various roles in Togo and Burkina Faso. Our high standards and the situation on the ground make this search quite challenging.
At the beginning of June, a group of armed men broke into our production site in Campo Largo, Brazil and threatened the employees. What did the men want? We spoke about the incident with managing director Jonathas Baerle, who was there himself.
An exciting orange season has come and gone. For the first time, we were allowed to disregard export standards for shape, colour and size of the fruit with official permission from the EU – much to the surprise of the farming families and the local juice industry.