The Northern Territory city of Palmerston is in ‘banana lock-down’ after the fungal disease known as Banana Freckle was discovered in the suburb of Gray.

A government-run school in Davao del Sur is putting up a P7-million banana center to address the need to develop indigenous banana varieties and produce crops on a 30-hectare farm.

Jackfruit and breadfruit symposium held in India

A symposium on “Jackfruit and Breadfruit in the Tropics: Genetic Diversity, Marketing, and Value Addition” was organized by the University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS) on 15-16 May 2014.

Continuous summer showers for the past couple of weeks in several parts of Kerala have salvaged mangosteen, nutmeg and cocoa crops which have flowered late this year.

It is literally a less fruitful year for Malaysians with a 60% drop in local fruit production brought about by the recent dry spell.

The citrus industry says Australian fruit farmers could provide a year-round fresh fruit bowl to Thailand.

You can shop for more than just clothes, cosmetics and electronics on Facebook nowadays.

The research was based on a clinical study that investigated whether eating one Hass avocado every day as part of a moderate fat diet (34 percent fat) had a beneficial effect on risk factors for CVD among healthy overweight and obese subjects, compared to a similar moderate fat diet without avocados, and a lower fat diet.

A world-first study by Australia’s Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) has found eating an organic diet for a week can cut pesticide exposure in adults by 89%.

Scot Nelson and Richard Manshardt, scientists with the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources(CTAHR), have created a new citizen science app for iOS and Android users that tracks what they believe to be the declining incidence of papaya ringspot virus (PRSV) in the Honolulu area, as well as a possible increase in the incidence of PRSV-resistant genetically engineered papayas.

Anyone who purchased organic mangoes in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Jersey or Texas since mid-April needs to check their source.

Fruit specialist, William Daga Avalos, stated that Peru had nearly tripled its starfruit hectares in the last thirteen years.

At Patco greengrocer’s on the Romford Road in east London, there has been a run on Indian mangoes.

With the growing threat of Panama Disease’s Tropical Race 4 (TR4) in the planet’s top banana-growing regions, Ecuador’s Biotechnology Research Center (CIBE) has begun to develop control measures against the deadly fungus, Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense.

Pineapple production in Costa Rica has increased by 42 per cent in the past five years, rising from 1.68m tonnes in 2009 to 2.36m tonnes in 2013, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock.

In delving into the mysteries of the deadly citrus greening, or huanglongbing (HLB) disease, University of Florida (UF) researchers have made a surprising discovery.

Mango industry in Peru has achieved a successful 2013-14 campaign by shipping 6,100 containers, the Peruvian Mango Exporters’ Association (APEM) has reported.

According to Epimaque Nsanzabaganwa, Head of Horticulture Production Division at the National Agriculture Export Board (NAEB), pineapple is grown mainly for fresh market and processing.

The intense and prolonged summer heat has ruined a large swathe of durian plantations in Uttaradit and robbed the durian growers of their flavorsome fruit.

It’s big and bumpy with a gooey interior and a powerful smell of decay, but it could help keep millions of people from hunger.