TFNet News Compilation (Page 228)

Research by two Bachelor of Education students from Kabarak University in Nakuru, shows that the banana trunk can be used to make sanitary pads.   Paul Ntikoisa and Ivy Etemesi’s Banana Fibre Sanitary Wear innovation, aim to provide affordable sanitary towels to needy girls and women.   The students opted toContinue Reading

Good yield of guava in Nesarabad upazila under the district fails to make growers happy as prices of the popular fruit remains unusually low in the local wholesale market.   On Tuesday a maund of guava sold for Tk 80-120 at Atgar-Kuriyana, a large wholesale floating market that sees sellersContinue Reading

The Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives is planning to prevent longan prices from plunging by distributing the fruit through its network of agricultural cooperatives and the postal service.   According to Chawalit Chukhachon, the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, approximately 530,000 tons of longan will beContinue Reading

by Vicky Boyd   Index Fresh will host three avocado grower seminars on irrigation management in Southern California at 9-11 a.m., on August 19-21.   Titled “Mobile Irrigation Labs Irrigation Management on the Farm,” they are the 11th in a series of educational sessions sponsored by the Riverside, Calif.-based grower-packer.   HeadliningContinue Reading

On 24th July 2014 at the Pineapple Garden in Tambol Thepkasattri, Thalang, Phuket, Phuket Governor – Khun Maitree Intusut presided over an event entitled Phuket Pineapples Tourism Day. The event was also attended by Chief of Phuket Provincial Agricultural Extension Office – Khun Sanit Polpattapee, Khun Sompong Panthong from theContinue Reading

Tamil Nadu plans to establish integrated cold chain infrastructure for banana in six regions to reduce wastage. The regions are Erode, Coimbatore, Tuticorin, Theni, Tiruchi and Tiruvannamalai. A detailed project report will shortly be prepared, sources said.   With an annual production of nearly 9 million tonnes, Tamil Nadu isContinue Reading

If you’re sick of eating, seeing, hearing about, and, uh, reading about mangoes, just remember there are plenty of folks who’d love to have mango overload as their First-World problem. Actually, there are plenty of people in our own backyard who’d be grateful for a food surplus of any kind.Continue Reading

A Darwin horticulturalist says he’s found a way to extend the growing life of niche market tropical fruit crops in the Northern Territory. Garcinian fruits like the achacha and mangosteen grow well in the wet season, but the trees go dormant in the dry season. Horticulturalist Chris Nathanael says inContinue Reading

The mango industry says it’s frustrated by attempts in the Senate to block a proposed increase to the mango levy. The Senate is expected to vote on a disallowance motion, from Liberal Democratic Party Senator David Leyonhjelm, against the levy changes later this month. The increase is being considered alongsideContinue Reading

If you hate de-seeding you favourite fruit, you might be glad to hear that scientists in India have reportedly successfully grown a “seedless” mango.   Researchers at the Bihar Agriculture University (BAU) have borne a fruit that is sweet and juicy – but without that large pesky stone in theContinue Reading

by Ashfak Bokhari Pakistan’s mango exports to the European Union have suddenly come under the sword of Damocles. Only one lapse could make them meet the fate India has met. Under the changed scenario, mango exports to the bloc are fast shrinking, even up to 70pc (by a latest count)Continue Reading