ive million irradiated fruit flies burst out of white boxes every Saturday and race to stop female flies from breeding larvae-filled eggs in Trok Nong, a small rural town in eastern Thailand. Their mission: protect premium export fruits like durian and mangosteen. Thanks in part to these swarms of fliesContinue Reading
Khousabung in Churachandpur district, which is hosting the 11th State Level Pineapple Festival, will have a food processing unit with cold storage facility. Inaugurating the festival on Thursday, Manipur chief minister Biren Singh announced that Khousabung would be included in the list of selected sites for a food processing unit.Continue Reading
As you enter the small town of Vazhakulam near Thodupuzha in Idukki district, the pineapple is everywhere. There is a pineapple market, a research centre near the market, headload workers busy loading sacks of the fruit on to lorries, unloading and carrying them to shops, scores of lorries loaded withContinue Reading
Local firm Confirel plans to export 500 tonnes of keo romeat mango to the European Union towards the end of the year. It will be the company’s first shipment to the EU, Cambodia’s second largest export market. Hay Ly Eang, chairman of Confirel, said they have beenContinue Reading
There is a need for an inventory on jackfruit in the country, according to Shree Padre, Executive Editor, Adike Pathrike, a farm monthly and a crusader for jackfruit. Speaking at the inauguration of a two-day ‘akala halasu sangama’ (off-season jackfruit mela) here on Saturday he said that no databaseContinue Reading
The edible coating invented by California-based Apeel Sciences – which doubles an avocado’s shelf life, according to the startup – will soon be carried by Kroger, America’s largest grocery retailer. Avocados are known for having a short shelf life, lasting about a week at the grocery store beforeContinue Reading
Supermarket chain Tesco has angered shoppers in its inner-city stores by hiking the cost of individual bananas. The retailer has stopped charging by weight and is instead charging by single banana, meaning the cost of each yellow fruit has more than doubled at its Tesco Metro and Express stores. TheContinue Reading
Philippines is considering a preferential trade agreement with South Korea to ease access for its banana exports, or may seek to include provisions for banana exports in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) free trade agreement. Trade Secretary Ramon M. Lopez said he met recently with hisContinue Reading
Decades after the pronounced use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, its negative impacts are reaching new heights with heavy metal contamination now reported in banana fields of South India. An extensive study of over 250 soil samples from three south Indian States — Kerala, Karnataka and Tamilnadu — hasContinue Reading
A South Korean business group is interested in importing 50 tons per week of premium mangoes from key growing regions like Soccsksargen, Zambales and Guimaras, an order equivalent to the Philippines’ entire output of premium-grade fruit, Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol said. “It’s a Korean business group that would likeContinue Reading
Cambodia is about to seal a fresh banana deal with China this Thursday, opening the doors for the private sector to have a go at the Chinese market. Hean Vanhan, director-general of the General Directorate of Agriculture, said local farmers and exporters interested in the Chinese market willContinue Reading
In the Central Valley of Togo, a mango grower named Yacuobuo started killing his trees due to fruit-fly infestation that has decimated his crop over the past three years. In this main mango-growing region of Africa, many other small farmers face the same dilemma. And their loss extendsContinue Reading
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