But packaging and transportation costs are also increasing, and orange juice producers may eventually pass price hikes on, experts say.

It is also a major juice producer and a leader in the fresh dairy products market.

Florida growers fought to limit the inroads of Brazilian juice producers.

The fruit are of a firm texture, but are not very good juice producers.

Haggling over agriculture delayed the pact's completion for months as Japanese pig farmers and orange juice producers fought to defend their market from Mexican imports.

The juice producers Merziger, Klindworth and Niehoffs Vaihinger belong to the company.

The Japanese government got cold feet and backed out under intense pressure from domestic pork and orange juice producers, which worried about having to compete with Mexican imports.

That speculation could be dangerous if the public and other juice producers are led to believe that simply removing rotten fruit affords protection from pathogenic bacteria.

In becoming the leading juice producer in Russia, Lebedyansky developed the following brands:

Last month, Mexico's president, Vicente Fox, left Tokyo empty-handed after Japanese negotiators refused to allow measures that would harm pig farmers and orange juice producers.