TFNet Member Shree Padre showcases value-added jackfruit products in India.

A lot has changed in the six months since the soil disease, Panama tropical race 4 (TR4), was found in the Tully Valley in the banana production heartland of far north Queensland.

Terengganu FAMA director Hasan Jusoh said frozen durian had great potential and highly demanded especially in China because it was considered a premium product among consumers in the country.

Thirty-one-year-old Anil Balanja from Belthangady Taluk of Dakshina Kannada district who has grown over 500 varieties of fruits in his farm was felicitated by the Indian Institute of Horticultural Research and Central Horticultural Experiment Station for collection and conservation of garcinia species at Madikeri recently.

Guava, a tasty summer fruit is now abundantly available in the markets due to an abundant production in Pabna. A source of Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) at Pabna said that there are 1,020 guava orchards comprising 760 hectares in nine regions.

The Agrobazaar Malaysia in Singapore, the first permanent platform for Malaysia’s fruits and agro-based products overseas, has marked a successful first year, with a birthday celebration.

Visitors and Dabawenyos alike can still enjoy the much-loved Davao fruit at the 3rd Durian Festival at SM Lanang Premier’s The Fountain Court until September 21.

Spread over 339.1185 hectares of land, the Government Orange and Vegetable Farm is emerging as a major tourist attraction. It also operates a retail outlet where 91 different varieties of fruit-based products, including jams and jellies, are available.

Aiming to conserve and improve the quality of litchis, the sweet and juicy summer fruit has acquired its first field gene bank in India in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district, renowned for its ‘shahi’ (kingly) variety.

The post-harvest technology unit of the National Research Centre for Banana at Podhavur near here has taken up research programmes for producing five more new products using banana.

For thousands of years charcoal or biochar has been added to soil to increase fertility and water retention. The Denmark Biochar group in the Western Australia’s south-west is convinced of the benefits to soil, and is developing kilns to create charcoal.

Two corporate firms have joined hands to help mango farmers in the South increase yields. Over 25,000 farmers on Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka will get mentorship from Project Unnati in going for Ultra High Density Mango Plantation (UHDP).

​It’s durian season, and that means an abundance of the spiky green fruit with the thick and creamy, custard-like flesh. Some people can stop eating at just one or two seeds, but for diehard durian fans, there is no such thing as enough when it comes to the “king of fruits”.

Mission Produce Inc. in Oxnard, CA, has exported the first-ever container of fresh avocados from Peru to China. According to Peru’s Ministry of Agriculture & Irrigation, known as MINAGRI, significant export volumes are planned to China’s market of 1.4 billion potential consumers.

IG International has began its first ever import campaign shipping New Zealand-grown avocados to India. Arriving airfreight in Mumbai, this is the inaugural avocado consignment to be marketed by IG International Pvt, Ltd, one of the country’s leading fresh fruit and vegetable import-export companies.

Mexican mango growers in part of the state of Chiapas are to benefit from the country improving the area’s phytosanitary status. The Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fishing and Food (SAGARPA) declared the southeast region in the state’s municipality of Tonalá to have a low prevalence of the Anastrepha fruit fly species.

The yearly Watermelon Festival brings in thousands of people from all over the area and other states, which is helping small business owners and the town of Winterville.

Mexican authorities claim a new norm for fighting Moko disease without methyl bromide will improve public health and disease control.

Costa Rican pineapple exports were significantly lower in the first half of 2015 over the previous year, with adverse weather and unfavorable exchange rates likely contributing to the decline.