JPB Asia Pacific Sdn Bhd, the Northen Corridor Investment Authority (NCIA) and Universiti Malaysia Perlis (Unimap) are collaborating to construct greenhouses to produce Harum Manis mangoes all year round in Perlis.   Besides Harum Manis the project, with an investment of RM21 million, involves growing Indian Red mangoes in greenhousesContinue Reading

Dominican Exporters Association (ADOEXPO) president Sadala Khoury on Sunday warned that the “Panama blight” is wreaking havoc on banana plantations in several countries and asked the authorities to take steps to prevent damages to one of the country’s main export products.   He said income from bananas is more thanContinue Reading

by Parthasarathi Biswas, Indian Express   Ahead of another mango season, the Pune fruit market is staring at a likely loss. Traders and farmers have not forgotten last year’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) raids that destroyed lakhs of mangoes for using calcium carbide to hasten the ripening process. They saidContinue Reading