SOURCE: Voice of Vietnam Lai Thieu, now part of Ho Chi Minh City, has long been known as the land of mangosteen. Renowned for its delicate sweetness balanced by a hint of tartness, thin rind and thick flesh, Lai Thieu mangosteen has been named among Vietnam’s top 50 specialty fruits.Continue Reading
SOURCE: Maura Maxwell, Fruitnet Dominican dragon fruit is seeking new export markets as production continues to grow. Data from the Ministry of Agriculture indicates that there are some 400ha planted in the country, more than double the area planted in 2017. As reported by newspaper El Día, dragon fruit isContinue Reading
SOURCE: The Star Malaysia is in talks with the Thai government and the General Administration of Customs of China (GACC) to establish a land route for exporting local durians to China, a move expected to reduce logistics costs and expand market access in the country. Agriculture and Food Security MinisterContinue Reading
SOURCE: Zhang Ao, Global Times Each year, from May to June, the peak harvesting and processing season for avocados begins across Kenya. As Africa’s top avocado producer and the continent’s second-largest exporter, Kenya made remarkable history in 2022 as the first African country to supply fresh avocados to the ChineseContinue Reading
SOURCE: Soko Directory In Kenya’s often heated debates about foreign investors, land use, taxation, and agricultural modernization, one truth is frequently overlooked: very few companies have maintained the kind of long-term economic footprint that Del Monte Kenya has sustained for decades. While public discourse occasionally reduces the company to aContinue Reading
The Philippines is making a significant push in the Middle East fruit market as premium fresh pineapples from Mindanao make their way to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), expanding a promising export destination for one of the country’s top agricultural products. The Department of Agriculture (DA), through the Bureau ofContinue Reading
The new Sarawak Gold-1 pineapple variety is being introduced for cultivation across Peninsular Malaysia to boost productivity and strengthen supplies for the processing sector, says the pineapple board. About 500 hectares of SG-1 crops have been cultivated so far in Negeri Sembilan, Selangor, and Pahang, with plans to introduce theContinue Reading
SOURCE: S Dilip Roy, The Daily Star Despite being one of the largest mango producers in the world, with an annual surplus of 5 to 7 lakh tonnes, Bangladesh is failing to turn it into an export strength. The country produces 24-25 lakh tonnes of mangoes annually for a domesticContinue Reading
SOURCE: Times of Oman Pakistani mangoes are selling at higher prices in Oman this summer as soaring shipping costs and changes in cargo routes have significantly increased import expenses, distributors told Times of Oman on Tuesday. While consumers have seen only a modest increase in retail prices, importers and wholesalersContinue Reading
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SOURCE: Eastern Daily Press A Norwich-based company developing gene-edited bananas has acquired a banana plant propagation business which operates across Latin America, Asia and the Middle East. Tropic, headquartered at Norwich Research Park, is using gene-editing and breeding technologies to develop Cavendish bananas with improved traits, such as disease resistance,Continue Reading
SOURCE: Fruit Today The National Banana Corporation of Costa Rica (CORBANA) has presented the second edition of its Good Agricultural Practices Manual for Banana Cultivation, an updated technical guide designed to optimise crop management on farms and strengthen the competitiveness of the Costa Rican banana industry. The new publication formsContinue Reading