The celebrated 1930s central market in São Paulo is a huge grid of food stalls where locals to Brazil’s largest city come daily to shop and eat. Sellers in the fruit section seduce you with juicy slivers of fragrant guavas, papayas and Brazilian citrus fruits, and juice bars offer exoticContinue Reading
While the debate rages on about the pros and cons of genetically modified crops, a Hawai`i research facility is working on developing a ringspot virus-resistant papaya – the “old-fashioned” way. The Oahu-based Hawaii Agriculture Research Center has received a federal grant to assist in cross-breeding a hybrid that would beContinue Reading
Produce exports to Australia and New Zealand are sluggish but show signs of gradually improving. This is the comment from Michael Brown, the CEO of the produce farmers’ co-operative, Nature’s Way Co-operative. “For example, some of our biggest papaya producers were badly hit by the floods in 2012Continue Reading
First launched in Brisbane’s Post Office Square in June, more Smart Banana vending machines have since been placed at the Royal Brisbane Hospital and the Roma Street Transit Centre. MacKays Produce Solutions marketing spokesman Mike Evans said he had helped design the concept alongside North Queensland (Tully) banana farmers DanielContinue Reading
A researcher at the National Institute for Forestry, Agriculture and Livestock (INIFAP) Mirafuentes Felipe Hernandez, adding that the new hybrid is already assessed in Yucatan, Campeche, Tabasco and Michoacán. He explained that to create a new genotivo seven selfings required from parents to achieve homogenization “and once so, itContinue Reading
Peruvian exports of fruit totaled US$ 702 million between January and August 2013, a 15.2 percent increase over the same period last year, according to Exporters Association (Adex). According to figures from Business Intelligence System Adex Data Trade, the amount recorded was due to a rise in demand from the NetherlandsContinue Reading
Paul Gonzalez, a banana leader, deems it necessary that the price of bananas increases, after taking into account several factors, mainly about production. Gonzalez said that he had met with other banana leaders several days ago and that they had discussed various points to ask for an increase inContinue Reading
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA: International Tropical Fruits Network (TFNet) welcomed Dr. Cecep Effendi, Director General of the Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP), during his visit on 10 October 2013. Effendi and TFNet CEO Yacob Ahmad discussed on possible areas of collaboration between the twoContinue Reading
The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization finalized an agreement Friday to collaborate with the world’s largest body of small food producers, La Via Campesina. “The agreement marks a milestone in the relationship between FAO and civil society organizations, as La Via Campesina is the movement that brings together theContinue Reading
Sri Lanka is the 13th nation to join International Tropical Fruits Network (TFNet) as country member. Country representative, Additional Secretary for Agricultural Technology, Ministry of Agriculture, Sri Lanka, Dr. DBT Wijeratne accepted the country membership certificate from TFNet Chairperson HE Datuk Mohd. Hashim Abdullah, during the TFNet Board of TrusteesContinue Reading
TFNet bade farewell to 3 members of the board who had played pivotal roles and contributed enormously to the network since its establishment in 2000. All three were given recognition by Chairperson of the Board HE Datuk Mohd. Hashim Abdullah and members during the 7the session of the TFNetContinue Reading
A European study analyzes the relationship between fruit and vegetable consumption and the risk of mortality. As previous research has already suggested, this study concludes that fruit and vegetable consumption reduces all-cause mortality, and especially cardiovascular disease mortality. The benefits of fruit and vegetable consumption are not a new discovery.Continue Reading
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