TFNet News Compilation (Page 18)

SOURCE: Xinhua Kenya has opened the harvesting of avocado for export from March after a four-month suspension, an industry regulator said. The Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA), through the Horticultural Crops Directorate (HCD), closed the 2023/2024 fiscal year of avocado season in November 2023 to ensure the maturity and qualityContinue Reading

SOURCE: Navitalai Naivalurua, Fiji Village The story and determination of 35-year-old entrepreneur Epi Tabualevu is a great inspiration to anyone who wants to start a business from nothing. Tabualevu always recounts the day he trekked over 2 kilometres by foot from Suva bustand to Laucala Beach, hoping that he wouldContinue Reading

SOURCE: Abrafruits TRANSLATION: Freshplaza In Brazil, dragon fruit, known for its scale-like segments, is making waves as an exotic, high-value commodity. This member of the Cactaceae family comes in three species, varying by fruit size, skin, and pulp color: Seleniceries undatus with white pulp and yellow skin, Hylocereus polyrhizus featuringContinue Reading

SOURCE: Department of Agriculture, Philippines The Department of Agriculture will invite experts from Sun & Earth Microbiology LLC, a Florida-headquartered biotechnology company, to help eliminate Cecid fly infestation that undermines Philippine mango production and export. Agriculture Secretary Francisco P. Tiu Laurel, Jr. said the DA is open to the ideaContinue Reading

SOURCE: Luisa Cheshire, Fruitnet UK banana importer and ripener SH Pratt Group has announced the acquisition of the commercial arm of Ripe Now, a mango and tropical fruit supplier to major British supermarkets and food manufacturers. The deal is expected to broaden SH Pratt’s product portfolio to include the supplyContinue Reading

SOURCE: The Hindu Under the Special Scheme for Mukkani Development, the Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday spelt out various measures to boost the cultivation of mango, jackfruit, and banana in the State during 2024-25. While presenting the Agriculture Budget for 2024-25, Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare M.R.K. Panneerselvam saidContinue Reading

SOURCE: Dominican Today The DR should continue taking advantage of the avocado market but with responsible crop management not to pay Mexico’s ecological price. When at a food fair held in the United States in October 2019, José Acosta watched Dylan Williams’ reaction to tasting a tropical avocado or CáscaraContinue Reading

SOURCE: Saboor Bayat, BNN Breaking In the heart of Paraná, Brazil, the Family Farmers Cooperative of the Municipalities of Amenorte (Cooanorte) has launched its passion fruit harvesting season. With 65 of its 130 members actively participating, this initiative is a testament to resilience, collaboration, and the promise of a sustainableContinue Reading

Ecuador welcomed the lifting of a Russian ban on banana imports from the South American nation amid a spat over a weapons deal benefiting Ukraine. Authorities in Moscow had cited the detection of pests as the reason for suspending imports of bananas and flowers from Ecuador 10 days ago. ButContinue Reading

SOURCE: Michael Le Page, New Scientist Regulators in Australia and New Zealand have given the green light for farmers to grow a genetically modified banana resistant to a devastating fungal disease spreading worldwide. A genetically modified banana has been approved for growing on farms for the first time. Regulators inContinue Reading

SOURCE: East Fruit Morocco restored its banana imports in 2023 after a significant slump in the previous year, reports EastFruit. By August 2023, Morocco has already imported more bananas than in the whole of 2022, when the global trade of this product faced a severe crisis due to natural disasters,Continue Reading