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PUBLICATIONS
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UPCOMING TFNet ACTIVITIES
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FRUIT EVENTS AROUND THE WORLD
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| 2025 International Symposium on Tropical Fruits (ISTF 2025) Date: 2025 Venue: TBA9th TFNet General Assembly and 17th TFNet Board of Trustees Meeting Date: 2025 Venue: TBA |
XIV International Mango Symposium Date: May 28-31, 2025 Venue: Mazatlán, Sinaloa (Mexico)XV International Symposium on Plant Bioregulators in Fruit Production Date: June 23-26, 2025 Venue: Chicago, IL, USA |
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| Missed our webinars? You can now watch them in our Youtube channel! | We are looking for contributors to our website and newsletters. Contact us at info@itfnet.org. | ||||
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TROPICAL FRUIT NEWS
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MEXICO: Banana growers worry about Trump tariffs despite pause |  |
HONDURAS: Banana shortage worsens | ||||
| Banana growers and shippers are paying close attention to the potential 25 percent tariffs president Donald Trump is threatening to impose on goods from both Mexico and Canada. | Maynor Velásquez, manager of the Association of Banana Producers of Honduras that the area devoted to banana production has decreased considerably and has been affected by floods. | ||||||
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ECUADOR: Slight increase in banana exports in 2024 |  |
INDIA: Banana growers in Karnataka, Maharashtra in red as extreme cold damages crops | ||||
| Ecuador exported 364.73mn boxes of bananas in 2024, an increase of 5.06mn boxes. | More than 25% of the crops would be affected as temperature dipped below 12 degree Celsius. | ||||||
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PERU: Worst mango season ever |  |
PARAGUAY: Mango earns quality certification for export | ||||
| The Peruvian Association of Mango Producers says that the low prices this season has affected the income of farmers. | Mangoes could soon become one of Paraguay’s key agricultural exports, with the Chilean market as a primary target for 2026. | ||||||
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INDIA: 2025 likely to be a sweet year for mango growers |  |
PAKISTAN: Farmers in distress due to lower production and exports of mangoes | ||||
| It is most likely going to be a sweet year for mango growers in Karnataka, as the weather has been conducive so far for the crop. | Mango is a crucial agricultural product for Pakistan to earn foreign exchange but the production and exports of the sweet fruit have declined in the recent past. | ||||||
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MALAYSIA: Pineapples are now exported to France, NZ |  |
CAMBODIA: Pineapples gaining popularity with farmers | ||||
| The Malaysian Pineapple Industry Board reported that 1,778 containers of pineapple have been exported to foreign markets. | In an unusual twist for one of the world’s largest rice-producing countries,farmers switched paddy for pineapples. | ||||||
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MYANMAR: MoALI invites bidding for pineapple export to China |  |
MEXICO: Producers call for a halt to industrialized pineapple imports | ||||
| The Department of Agriculture under the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation called for an Expression of Interest (EOI) for pineapple exports to China. | Pineapple producers in the regions of Isla, José Azueta, and Rodríguez Clara (Veracruz) are asking the Federal Government to limit imports of industrialized pineapple. | ||||||
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UK: Papaya is the fastest growing fruit as Brits go for a taste of the exotic |  |
EAST AFRICA: Study affirms use of ‘natural enemy’ to fight papaya pest | ||||
| Demand for the orange-coloured fruit, which is mainly grown in tropical climates within South America, has rocketed by nearly 160 per cent in the last year. | A new study has shown the potential of a biocontrol agent used to fight the devastating papaya mealybug pest across East Africa. | ||||||
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NEW ZEALAND: Expect larger avocado crop in 2025 |  |
USA: Trump’s Mexico tariffs poised to raise already high avocado prices | ||||
| New Zealand is on course to produce around 7mn trays of avocados this season, a notable increase on the 5mn trays it harvested last year. | Mexico supplies upwards of 90% of the avocados Americans eat, and President Donald Trump is likely to make them more expensive with his plan to slap 25% tariffs on Mexican imports. | ||||||
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ECUADOR: Cultivating dragon fruit’s political power |  |
CHINA: Tight durian inspections over food safety concerns | ||||
| In the Ecuadorian Amazon, an anthropologist explores how the Shuar people are betting on dragon fruit cultivation to reclaim economic autonomy and political sovereignty. | Thailand’s Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives recently held an emergency meeting to discuss measures to enhance the control and inspection of durians destined for China. | ||||||
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SOUTH KOREA: Tariffs removed on imported fruits, quotas remain |  |
INFO: The meaning behind gifting these citrus fruits for Chinese New Year | ||||
| The Korean government has announced it will continue to waive tariffs on a wide range of imported fruits in the first six months of 2025 as it battles food price inflation. | Oranges are an essential feature of every Chinese New Year (CNY) celebration, whether as a festive treat or a symbolic gift to enliven the occasion. | ||||||
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RECENT LITERATURE ON TROPICAL FRUIT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
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| Influence of Growth Location and Extraction Method on the Properties of Cameroonian Musa acuminata Leaf Vein Fibers Fokam, M.G., et al. (Jan 2025) Journal of Natural Fibers DOIEffect of Curcuma zanthorrhiza on Population and Infectivity of Pentalonia nigronervosa as A Vector of Banana Bunchy Top Virus Disease Arsi, et al. (Feb 2025) Sainmatika DOIThe role and position of informal street vendors in the Onderberg district banana value chain Kakaza, N. & Naude, M.J. (Jan 2025) Agrekon DOI |
Pilot Super-Resolution Network (PSRN) – based mango fruit classification Yeswanth, P.V., et al. (Feb 2025) Advances in Machine DOIPhysico-chemical Assessment of Soil Quality of Selected Mango Orchards of Dehradun District (Uttarakhand), India Bahuguna, P.K., et al. (Dec 2024) Journal of Environment and Bio-sciences DOIOn-tree mango detection and size estimation using attention-enhanced mangoYOLO5 and XGBoost regression Pichhika, H.C., et al. (Jan 2025) Journal of Food Measurement and Characterization DOI |
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| Finding the Non-destructive Monitoring System of Papaya by Machine Learning Algorithm Mohan, S., et al. (Feb 2025) Advances in Intelligent Systems for Sustainble Agriculture DOICpMADS4 and CpERF9 jointly regulate carotenoid synthesis related genes during papaya fruit ripening Fu, C. & Han, Y. (Feb 2025) Food Research International DOIFoliar application of zinc and boron alleviate deficiency stress in papaya (Carica papaya L.) seedlings Deb, P., et al. (Jan 2025) (Pre-Print) DOI |
Optimization of Microwave Vacuum Drying of Pineapples: A Three-Stage Approach Wei-Man, Y., et al. (Jan 2025) Results in Engineering DOIExtraction and characterization of methylcellulose from pineapple processing industry waste Buvaneswaran, M., et al. (Jan 2025) Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery DOIStudy of Pineapple Bioactive Compounds Targeting Aldose Reductase: A Natural Intervention for Diabetes Mellitus Pathologies Pandey, A.K., et al. (Feb 2025) Molecular Biotechnology |
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| Enhanced hybrid attention deep learning for avocado ripeness classification on resource constrained devices Nuanmeesri, S. (Jan 2025) Scientific Reports DOIDiversity of culturable endophytic fungi associated with avocado orchards under organic and conventional management Sanchez-Hernandez, D., et al. (Jan 2025) BioRxiv DOIPhytophthora species causing root rot in avocado seedlings at Colombian nurseries: Morphological, molecular, and pathogenic analysis Palacios-Joya, L.P., et al. (Jan 2025) Scientia Agropecuaria DOI |
Systematic Literature Review on the Application of Convolutional Neural Networks for Rambutan Fruit Classification: Advances, Challenges, and Future Directions Meisaroh, et al. (Dec 2024) Journal of ICT Applications and System DOIScreening of commercial guava varieties against anthracnose disease caused by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides Kaur, T. et al. (Jan 2025) Indian PhytopathologyDOI A Smart Indicator of Beef Spoilage Using Pectin and Betalains from Red Dragon Fruit (Hylocereus polyrhizus) Peels |
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