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Article: European vegetable processors focus on sustainability for future generations: frozen production, led by Belgium and Poland, rises 5.37% to top 3.4 million tons in 2008. Will EC plan for reducing use of plant protection products dramatically cut post-2013 output?(OEITFL Brussels Conference)
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- Quick Frozen Foods International
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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Belgium may be small in size, but it is by far the biggest producer of frozen vegetables in Europe, having packed 900,479 tons at 16 locations in 2008. Indeed, it has been the continent's most fertile garden for processed vegetables for more than two generations, and a number of the nation's leading companies have branched out in numerous directions beyond the homeland during the past decade with the acquisition of factories and construction of new plants abroad.
Overall output of frozen vegetables in Belgium was up by 29,129 tons last year, with companies in the fertile West Flanders region accounting for most of the country's 26% share of European production, ...