Retailer’s ‘cocktail avocado’ can be eaten whole and may help end problem of people slicing their hands while removing the seed. Marks & Spencer has begun selling a stoneless avocado that could help banish the pain of “avocado hand”. The so-called cocktail avocado is 5cm-8cm (2in-3in) inContinue Reading
Enterprises in Vietnam and China have signed principle contracts on watermelon trade in 2018 and the following years at a conference held in the central province of Quang Ngai on December 6. The event was organised by the Ministry of Industry and Trade in conjunction with Quang Ngai provinceContinue Reading
China’s love of a pungent, football-sized thorny fruit is skyrocketing, and Malaysia wants a piece of it. The value of China’s fresh imports of durian fruit has climbed an average of 26 percent a year over the past decade, reaching $1.1 billion in 2016, according to United Nations data.Continue Reading
Vietnam exported US$240 million of vegetables and fruits last month, taking the total to US$2.86 billion in the year to end-October, up 42.6% year-on-year. Revenue from vegetable and fruit exports exceeded that of Vietnam’s key export products such as rice, crude oil and coal. Analysts said the target for someContinue Reading
Researchers at the Queensland University of Technology, led by Professor James Dale, have developed Panama disease-resistant bananas by adding a gene found in a wild south-east Asian banana. The project began in 2012 to identify genes in bananas that were resistant to disease. After planting six lines ofContinue Reading
Avocado growers who have surrounded their orchards with deer fencing and installed night vision security cameras will be smiling when the China avocado market opens up next year. The Ministry of Primary Industries advises New Zealand is a significant step closer to supplying fresh avocados to Chinese consumersContinue Reading
Bananas are expected to be the nation’s highest revenue earner among agricultural exports this year, retaining the top spot achieved last year despite a decrease in exports by value. This year, Laos expects to earn about US$184 million from banana exports, down US$13.8 million compared to last year, the MinistryContinue Reading
The organic banana orchards of Bandarban are every farmer’s dreams. They yield well and churn good profits. Not to mention, these highly nutritious fruits are sweet, delectable and loved by children and adults alike. Growers in all seven upazilas on the hilly terrain cultivate different species of bananas, starting fromContinue Reading
A Manjimup avocado export company representative has spoken out against reports predicting a drop in avocado prices, saying the price would likely stay stable throughout summer. Advanced Packing and Marketing Services managing director Jennie Franceschi said she was surprised by comments from former Avocados Australia CEO Antony Allen. Mrs FranceschiContinue Reading
When you’re cooking up a broccoli casserole or juicing a watermelon, you’re probably tossing the stem or the rind. But you might want to hold onto those scraps for a bit longer, because you can use them in surprising ways. It turns out that what you consider useless food scrapsContinue Reading
Uganda is the second largest producer of bananas after India with about 9 million tonnes produced annually. All this production creates tonnes of waste in form of stems and stocks. These are returned back to gardens to be used as fertilisers or mulching materials. But the stems and stocksContinue Reading
The president of the Canarian Executive, Fernando Clavijo, and the Costa Rican Foreign Trade Minister, Alexander Mora, who was on an official visit to the Canary archipelago, stated that the Canary Islands and Costa Rica have asked the European Union to work together to create the conditions so that thereContinue Reading
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