SOURCE: Merco Press Banana producers in Paraguay and Bolivia have agreed to resume shipments to Argentina after the outgoing administration of President Alberto Fernández authorized the use of foreign currency to pay for those imports. The decision came after Argentine officials met with producers and exporters from the two countries,Continue Reading
SOURCE: Fruitnet Queensland-grown bananas and melons have been shipped to Japan, in an Australia-first trial aimed at breaking into the potentially lucrative Japanese market. The red-wax-tipped Ecoganic bananas, grown in north Queensland by Pacific Coast Produce, have been sent to a banana tasting and promotion event in high-end Tokyo retailContinue Reading
SOURCE: RBC In October of the year, banana prices in Russia surged to 1.43 euros per kilogram for the first time, as reported by Rosstat. Experts attribute the increase to the weakening ruble and supplier procurement costs. The ruble’s decline against global currencies in the summer of 2023 impacted theContinue Reading
SOURCE: Matt Brann, ABC News Mangoes from the Northern Territory touched down in Los Angeles this week and are selling for $US8.99 each, which in Australian dollars is nearly $14 a mango. Manbulloo Mangoes’ supply chain advisor, Scott Ledger, travelled to California to oversee the arrival of the company’s R2E2Continue Reading
SOURCE: Fresh Fruit Portal The global pineapple market is expanding, with growth projections from $27 billion in 2023 to $36 billion by 2028. The research firm Mordor Intelligence found that the Asia-Pacific region was the largest pineapple producer in 2021, with 13 million metric tons accounting for 41% of globalContinue Reading
SOURCE: Hamza Hendawi, The National News Summer in Egypt was so hot this year that the managers of a 40-hectare orchard in the Nile Delta had to wrap each fruit on its mango trees with paper to shield them from the heat. They also coated the orchard’s oranges with kaolin,Continue Reading
While Maharashtra takes pride in its Alphonso, for which it acquired a GI Tag in October 2018, people of the state are proving not to be Alphonso purists but rather big lovers of the mango. So much so, that when the first lot of Malawi mangoes, which are identical toContinue Reading
SOURCE: Tempo The head of the Indonesian Quarantine Agency (Barantin) Sahat Manaor Panggabean released 4,176 tons of fresh pineapple from Lampung to be exported to China. “The government is pushing for mass export of local commodities to boost local economy,” Sahat said in Lampung on Thursday, November 8, 2023. “TheContinue Reading
SOURCE: Qian Xiaoyan Benin’s sugarloaf pineapple, dubbed ‘the sweetest pineapple in the world,’ is on show for the first time at the ongoing China International Import Expo in Shanghai and long queues are forming to taste it. “I’m glad our Chinese friends can sample Benin’s pineapples,” Elysee Kahomey, Benin’s assistantContinue Reading
SOURCE: Thi Ha, Vietnam Express Vietnam’s durian growing area has been expanding on average 24.5% annually since 2010 to 131,000 hectares now, the fastest among its key crops, leaving authorities concerned about oversupply. The central highland region has the biggest durian area at nearly 70,000 hectares, followed by the MekongContinue Reading
SOURCE: Nelson Joe, Post Courier The Kainantu district development authority in Eastern Highlands province has embarked on commercializing avocado going forward. Eastern Highlands Governor Simon Sia has joined the local MP William Hagahuno and his DDA members, chief of Executive officer Viencent Agusave and the project coordinator Livingston Fontenu andContinue Reading
SOURCE: Agatha Ngotho, The Star Researchers have developed an initiative to combat the destructive papaya mealybug in Kenya. Researchers at the Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (Cabi) have introduced a parasitic wasp, a natural predator, to coastal counties to help control the papaya mealybug pest. The tiny wasp helpsContinue Reading