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INDIA: Women make noodles from jackfruit
Nine women from the ‘Hallisiri’ organisation have been successful in preparing jackfruit noodles. After almost a month’s hard work, these women have created different types of noodles, semia, muru-kku and chakkuli from raw jackfruit-incorporated batter. |
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MALAYSIA: Durian charity festival will benefit terminally ill children
Durian lovers who want to enjoy the King of Fruits and at the same time chip in to help fulfil wishes of terminally ill children have slightly more than a week to buy their tickets for Jom Durian 8. |
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INDIA: Mango exports to touch 45k tonnes as new markets emerge worldwide
As the mango season is coming to an end, mango exports have stopped from Maharashtra and Gujarat, but a few tonnes are being exported from Uttar Pradesh. Government statistics reveals that some 9,000 tonnes of mango have been exported from Maharashtra to Europe this season as against 7,000 tonnes the previous year. |
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PHILIPPINES: Del Monte Arabia investing $250M in pineapple plantation in Palawan
Del Monte Arabia is investing $250 million to develop at least 6,000 hectares into pineapple plantation in Palawan for the exports market |
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AUSTRALIA: Quarantined Queensland banana growers get $684,000 payment but ‘still out of pocket’
Two far north Queensland banana growers say they are “surprised and dismayed” to have learned in the media today payments totalling close to $700,000 were the final instalments to be made to them after being quarantined due to the devastating disease, Panama Tropical Race 4 (TR4). |
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CHINA: Company fined for trading 6-year-old papaya products
A Zhejiang province-based enterprise has been fined 1.4 million yuan ($225 481) for trading “zombie” papaya products, Qianjiang Evening News reported on Tuesday. |
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PHILIPPINES: DOH waiting for reports on durian candy poisoning
Following a food poisoning outbreak caused by durian candies over the weekend, the Caraga office of the Department of Health (DOH-Caraga) sent samples of patients’ bodily fluids to the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) on Monday (June 13). |
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INDIA: Banana prices to be stable during August-September
Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) has forecast that prices of ‘poovan’ and ‘karpooravalli’ varieties of bananas will be stable during August-September and the farm gate price would hover around Rs.15 – 17 (USD 0.24 – 0.27) per kg. |
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BANGLADESH: Bumper pineapple harvest in Srimangal
Indigenous farmers have achieved bumper production of pineapple at 30 villages in Srimangal upazila of the district this season. Locals said the juicy and delicious fruit has always been growing abundantly in the area, which is known as ‘pineapple village.’ |
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INDIA: Theni banana goes global
A first-of-its-kind venture floated by the John Pennycuick Farmers’ Trust (JPFT) at Cumbum in Theni district of Tamil Nadu has proved to be a game changer. |
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VIETNAM: Bac Giang earns millions from lychee
The northern province of Bac Giang has earned around VND2.7 trillion (about US$123.8 million) from lychees so far this year. Domestic consumption for the 190,000 tonnes harvested accounted for about 55 per cent, which was the first time local consumption surpassed exports, said vice chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, Duong Van Thai. |
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MALAYSIA: Black thorn durian commands a premium price
It is almost symmetrically round like a ball and unlike other durians, it has a single blackish brown to dark brown thorn at the centre of its base. |
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COSTA RICA: Companies diversify exports to Chile
The Banana Board, in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, has started a sensitisation programme about Panama Tropical Race 4 (PD TR4), a disease which is posing a global threat to bananas and plantains. |
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CAMBODIA: Mango Exports Looking Sweeter
Mango exporters in Kampong Speu province are gaining traction in Asian markets and expect overseas deliveries to increase by 50 percent in the coming season. |
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MYANMAR: Mango farmers frustrated by money changers
The Ministry of Commerce is working to arbitrate a Mandalay dispute between mango farmers and the Muse money changers they claim are giving them an unfair deal. |
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PAKISTAN: Mango production lower this year
Urbanisation, prolonged winter, fog, intense dust storms and rains are the main causes of low yield of mangoes this year, said former Mangoes Growers Association president Muzaffar Khakwani. |
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USA: Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden helps mango growers succeed
In early July, tens of thousands of people braved the scorching Miami heat index to purchase baby mango trees and fruit smoothies at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden’s annual mango festival. |
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USA: Mamey - A Tropical Miami Fruit That Should Become Mainstream
When it comes to fruit, there is no shopping experience quite like Miami. Particularly when going deep into the Latino areas, the store produce sections will have tropical fruits that are either exclusive or non-existent elsewhere in America. |
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PERU: San Mateo de Otao to export Cherimoya directly to Canada
In late July, the Association of Producers of Cherimoya Lucumay, located in the District of San Mateo de Otao in the province of Huarochiri, Lima region, will make its first direct export of 192 boxes of cherimoya to Toronto, Canada, with the support of the Sierra Exportadora. |
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GUAM: Malojloj is home to popular dragonfruit farm
Many looking for their pitaya or dragonfruit fix, head over to the roadside stand in Barrigada situated in front of the National Guard Readiness Center. There you will find a longtime farmer simply known as, Mr. Liu. |
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