SOURCE: The Hindu Just when the prices of tomatoes started to come down in markets, providing some relief to consumers, the price of the humble banana has now skyrocketed, breaching the ₹100 per kg-mark. With the harvest season coming to an end and festive season approaching, the demand has exceededContinue Reading
SOURCE: LARRY SCHLESINGER, Commercial Real Estate The farms and operating business of Australia’s biggest banana grower, Mackays, have been put on the market and could fetch as much as $180 million to resolve succession planning issues after the interests of the owning family diverged too much for it to stayContinue Reading
SOURCE: Noel Garcia, NZ Herald Bananas are the world’s most popular fruit and the Far North could become a major banana-growing region, bringing big environmental advantages for farmers, horticulture experts say. Farmers are being inundated with the message that water quality must be improved, but the question of how remainsContinue Reading
SOURCE: Bikash Singh, The Economic Times Pineapples from Meghalaya are exported to Abu Dhabi. Meghalaya has a diverse range of agro-climatic conditions which results in a variety of agricultural and horticultural products. Being grown by local communities in traditional manner, these crops are mostly naturally organic. These factors attribute towardsContinue Reading
SOURCE: Business World The Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) said that it is ramping up its efforts to contain Fusarium wilt, also known as Panama disease, in the banana industry. “We’re really focusing on the best management because it doesn’t matter how will we produce if lose to pests andContinue Reading
SOURCE: Abrafrutas IBGE, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, estimates that avocado production in Brazil has grown by around 38.59% between 2017 and 2021, reaching today 18.1 thousand hectares. According to the Institute, productivity in this last year was 301 thousand tons of avocado, both national and avocado, whichContinue Reading
China’s home-grown durians are poised to hit the market in a matter of days, but their limited yields and high prices are not expected to challenge the market share of Southeast Asian importers until large-scale commercial cultivation can be realised, according to state media. On the southern tropical island ofContinue Reading
SOURCE: Thi Ha, Vietnam Express The prices of locally grown red-fleshed jackfruit have tumbled by half from a year ago to VND50,000 (US$2.11) for a kilogram. Many small traders said the increasing supply of the fruit, first grown in Indonesia and then in some other Southeast Asian countries, including Vietnam,Continue Reading
SOURCE: The Star In central Lampung province in the southern part of Indonesia’s Sumatra island, gloved workers are picking ripe pineapples and throwing them onto a conveyor belt, with a truck waiting at the other end to take the fruit to the canning factory. With sufficient tropical sunshine and highContinue Reading
PHOTO: Ny Sreypov, Phnom Penh Post Stepping into the world of business requires diligent financial management and a clear vision, such as demonstrated by a successful fried banana chips business owner. Non Channy has launched an agro-processing venture and her efforts support the local community. In Samlot district of BattambangContinue Reading
SOURCE: Xinhua Mangoes are growing abundantly across Bangladesh right now, but Chapainawabganj is the country’s main mango-growing district and is popularly called the “Capital of Mango” in Bangladesh. Chapainawabganj has also been famous in recent years for producing high-quality, chemical-free mangoes by using Chinese methods. Local mango growers said favorableContinue Reading
SOURCE: MOHD FARHAAN SHAH, The Star The Malaysian Pineapple Industry Board (MPIB) will introduce a new variety of the tropical plant in August that would push up Malaysia’s yearly production. Its chairman Sheikh Umar Bagharib Ali said that the board was still carrying out research and development on the newContinue Reading