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International Webinar on Enhancing Global Consumption and Trade of Passionfruit Click the link to register and join our webinar! |
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TROPICAL FRUIT NEWS |
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PARAGUAY: Banana producers are concerned about the economic losses they’ve had this year |  |
ECUADOR: Banana sectors fail to reach an agreement on the price of a box of bananas for 2023 | ||||
| Paraguay’s banana sector lost 50% of its income due to the fall of the Argentine peso. | The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock convened the first meeting to try to reach a consensus between the different parts of the banana sector on the price that will govern fruit exports in 2023. | ||||||
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AUSTRALIA: Appealing new variety banana splits taste and TR4 problem |  |
PHILIPPINES: Banana sector loses hold on Asian exports | ||||
| Ground-breaking research is bearing fruit in the quest to develop tasty bananas resistant to Panama TR4 disease, helping to protect good jobs in Queensland’s nation-leading banana industry. | The Philippines’ share of Asian banana exports has plunged from 90 per cent to 60 per cent according to data from The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). | ||||||
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COLOMBIA: Middle Eastern purchases boost Colombian mango exports by almost 20% |  |
BURKINA FASO: Dried mangos are juicing up fruit exports | ||||
| In the first half of the year, Colombian mango exports amounted to US$11.4 million, a 19.7% increase over the same period of the previous year that was driven by purchases from the Middle East. | Between March and July every year, fruit trees across Burkina Faso, a landlocked country in West Africa, come alive with the delightful smells and colorful sights of mangos. | ||||||
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CHINA: The turnover of papaya in Guangxi has increased by more than 6 times in the past 5 years |  |
CANARY ISLANDS: Tropical pineapple producers from El Hierro train on cultivation technologies | ||||
| In the past five years, the transaction volume of Guangxi agricultural products sold online has increased year by year, with an average annual increase of 35%. | The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Fisheries of the Government of the Canary Islands stated that it carried out a training activity on the island of El Hierro so that tropical pineapple producers implement cultivation technologies in their usual tasks. | ||||||
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KENYA: Firm secures approval for second avocado shipment to China |  |
USA: The scent that could save California’s avocados | ||||
| Kenya’s integrated agro-business firm Kakuzi confirmed it has secured pre-shipment approval from the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service. | UC Riverside scientists are on the hunt for a chemical that disrupts “evil” weevils’ mating and could prevent them from destroying California’s supply of avocados. | ||||||
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CHINA: Durian boom only a prelude to vast opportunities for tropical fruits growers in SE Asia |  |
PHILIPPINES: Davao to soon export durian to China | ||||
| Durian from Southeast Asia has found more channels and pathways into the vast Chinese market ahead of the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival. | The overpowering smell of Davao’s famous durian may soon reach the biggest market for the pungent fruit. | ||||||
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AUSTRALIA: Making jackfruit jump off the shelves |  |
USA: Why a massive surge in dragon fruit spells trouble for some farmers | ||||
| Australian jackfruit is a tropical treasure: a fruit rich in vitamins, minerals and many phytochemicals that are known to have positive health benefits, and it is incredibly versatile in its culinary uses. | In Florida, a primary warm-climate farming location, growers and distributors report a flood of dragon fruit from South America, particularly Ecuador. | ||||||
RECENT LITERATURE ON TROPICAL FRUIT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT |
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Uncontained spread of Fusarium wilt of banana threatens African food security Green banana and ora-pro-nóbis mixed flours: nutritional and technological characteristics Experimental investigation on banana stem fibre in the production of M40 grade concrete: A review |
Records of fruit files(Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacinae: Dacini) in a selected mango (Mangifera indica L.)(Kautha Kollomban) cultivation in Ambalanthota, Sri Lanka. Hydrogel Improved Growth and Productive Performance of Mango Trees under Semi-Arid Condition Pests and Their Management in Mango |
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Performance evaluation, morphological properties and drying kinetics of untreated Carica Papaya using solar hybrid dryer integrated with heat storage material Modification of the helper-component protease of papaya ringspot virus Vietnam isolate to generate attenuated mutants for disease management by cross protection |
Pineapple Agro-Industrial Biomass to Produce Biomedical Applications in a Circular Economy Context in Costa Rica Postharvest melatonin treatment delays senescence and increases chilling tolerance in pineapple |
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Application of plant indices (red band and near infrared) in avocado plantations Pseudophilothrips perseae Damaging Hass Avocado Fruits in México Pressure-Assisted Thermal Sterilization and Storage Stability of Avocado Puree in High Barrier Polymeric Packaging |
Growth of wild passion fruit (Passiflora foetida L.) rootstock under irrigation water salinity Post-harvest Anthracnose of Carambola (Averrhoa carambola) Caused by Colletotrichum fructicola in China Effects of paclobutrazol on flowering of juvenile durian trees cv. 'Monthong' and its costs and returns of production |
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