SOURCE: Sooksodsai Sooksomchitra, Bangkok Post Mangoes have been selling at Huai Khwang Market for as low as 20 baht per kilogramme recently. Pikul, a vendor, said she cannot remember the last time mangoes were so cheap. “I’ve never seen prices so low. This situation is really hurting farmers. Mango growersContinue Reading
SOURCE: Rose-Harriet Okech, IITA Scientists at IITA-CGIAR have made a major breakthrough in the fight against Banana Xanthomonas Wilt (BXW), a devastating bacterial disease threatening banana crops across East and Central Africa. The findings, recently published in Communications Biology, the prestigious journal from the Nature portfolio, demonstrates how gene editingContinue Reading
SOURCE: APA News South Africa has exported the first batch of avocados for the 2025 season to China, marking a significant milestone in the country’s agricultural trade. The shipment arrived in Shanghai last week, strengthening South Africa’s position as a global avocado supplier and making it the third African nation,Continue Reading
SOURCE: Jeremy Tan, The Star Penang’s durian season has begun and the race is on to savour the best fruits. Harvests are expected to be less bountiful this year because of unfavourable weather conditions, so fans of the “King of Fruits” may have a shorter window to indulge in theirContinue Reading
SOURCE: The Nation The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB), through the Consumer Protection Police Division (CPPD), has arrested a Vietnamese national known as Van, or “Bird,” for illegally importing over 16 tonnes of avocados into Thailand. According to a statement released by the CIB on Wednesday, the produce had not undergoneContinue Reading
SOURCE: Onz Chéry, Haitian Times Djimy Saintil will never forget the night he cried over his ruined papaya plantation in Caracol, a village about 20 miles southeast of Cap-Haïtien. It was a day in May two years ago, a day when the agronomist should have been harvesting the plump yellowy-orangeContinue Reading
SOURCE: Charles Pensulo, Al Jazeera Since he was young, Enock Dayton has made a living from bananas. The 30-year-old was born and raised in Molele, in the southern Malawian district of Thyolo, which was at the heart of local banana production until a plant virus devastated crops more than aContinue Reading
SOURCE: Newsroom Panama Panamanian company Panafruit SA, located in San Juan del Tejar, Chiriquí, maintains a growth projection for its papaya exports to the United States and Aruba this year, according to the Ministry of Agricultural Development (MIDA). So far in 2025, the company has exported 44 containers to theContinue Reading
SOURCE: Joe Hinchliffe, The Guardian Australians can expect banana shortages and price hikes as the cleanup begins in flood-ravaged north Queensland, which grows almost 94% of Australia’s banana crop, growers say. But the good news, for consumers at least, is that any banana dramas playing out on supermarket shelves overContinue Reading
SOURCE: Andy Thomas-Stivalet, Freshplaza 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. “We’re a producer in Mexico and we do have third-party fruit that we source from Guatemala,” says AndyContinue Reading
By Maya Averbuch, Michael Hirtzer, and Leslie Patton, Bloomberg Americans’ love of guacamole is about to be put to the test. 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 onContinue Reading
SOURCE: My Sinchew Pineapples grown in Malaysia are now available in France and New Zealand! Sheikh Umar Bagharib Ali, chairman of Malaysian Pineapple Industry Board, said the board made encouraging progress last year, increasing the export of pineapples from 800 to 1,778 containers. “The two-fold increase in terms of containersContinue Reading