June 2016 (Page 8)

    While last week Chile registered a lot of unexpected rainfall for this time of the year, in previous years, droughts had taken a severe toll on the avocado producing areas, from Santiago to the north of the South American country. “The lack of water has had a bigContinue Reading

    Anecoop’s cooperative partner, Coprohníjar, has presented the results of two new research projects developed by the UAL Anecoop Foundation, which demonstrate the benefits of papaya cultivation in greenhouses as a new alternative in the south east of the Iberian Peninsula.   These studies confirm that introducing the cultivationContinue Reading

  De Roeck en Zonen has been working with Sucre for 15 years already, and is the exclusive importer of fruit under this brand for Belgium. Watermelons have been back in the assortment for several weeks now. According to Patrick de Roeck, the name Sucre has not been chosen byContinue Reading

by Matthew Jones, Fruitnet   A year-round supply programme for fresh Indian pomegranates looks set to provide Kay Bee Exports with a new window of opportunity in the US, after the Maharastra-based company became the first to export the fruit to the North American market.   Kay Bee Exports chief executiveContinue Reading

  With GlobalG.A.P certification now under its belt, CaucaHass S.A.T. will very soon be in a position to ship avocados to the demanding tastes and specifications of EU supermarkets.   Dominated by growers in Antioquia and the Eje Cafetero coffee-growing region, Colombia’s budding Hass avocado industry has witnessed phenomenal growthContinue Reading

by Mike Knowles, Fruitnet   Citrus industry members from France, Italy and Spain have formed a new joint committee to represent the sector’s interests on an international level, adding to existing groups already established to do the same for stonefruit, topfruit, tomatoes, strawberries and garlic.   As reported by Italiafruit News,Continue Reading

  Last month, rumors surfaced that mango farmers in several Mekong Delta provinces are afraid to eat their own fruit due to safety concerns. This springs from the news that the fruits are wrapped in unsafe Taiwanese-made bags before harvest, and is said to have caused a 50 percent slumpContinue Reading

  Scientists from the National Research Centre for Banana in Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu, will help farmers in Bidar and Kalaburagi in cultivating banana. They will work through the Bidar-based College of Horticulture.   Resource persons will train farmers in cultivation methods, protection of crops from pests and insects, post-harvest technologiesContinue Reading

  A University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences tropical fruit expert is doing his best to help commercial and residential avocado tree owners battle the dangerous laurel wilt pathogen.   With 12,000 commercial avocado trees already destroyed by laurel wilt, growers need a solution, but so doContinue Reading

  California-based Giumarra will team up with Tajin Seasonings to add a bit of spice to its Nature’s Partner-branded watermelon offering, starting this month with supplies from Sonora, Mexico.   In a release, Giumarra Nogales division manager Gil Munguia said the company was looking for an innovative way to offer somethingContinue Reading

  Avocado production in Jalisco has become an important activity, after the entity exported 82 million dollars of this fruit in 2014, stated the head of the Ministry of Rural Development (Seder) in the state, Hector Gutierrez Padilla.   After pledging official support for the establishment of a packing plantContinue Reading