SOURCE: Fresh Fruit Portal The mango industry is enjoying excellent momentum, with record volumes of high-quality fruit arriving in the U.S. this year. For the past three weeks, the fruit has topped the export volume charts with 4.4 million, 5.1 million, and 4.6 million boxes per week, according to dataContinue Reading
SOURCE: Yasir Wardad, The Financial Express Green papaya, once a cheap vegetable, has now turned so expensive, making it difficult for the poor to source this nutrition-rich item. Papaya price hit an all-time high of 110 a kg in the third week of April from Tk 50-55, marking a 100-perContinue Reading
SOURCE: The Bangkok Post The United States will start to import Thai pomelos next month while Australia has given a green light for import cooked duck from Thailand after years of negotiations, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives. Rapeepat Chantarasriwong, director-general of the Department of Agriculture, said theContinue Reading
SOURCE: Edwin Mutai, Business Daily Africa The first cargo plane of pineapples from Kenya will leave the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for Israel on June 1, Parliament heard on Monday. Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mithika Linturi told MPs that Kenya had inked a deal with the Jewish State that will seeContinue Reading
SOURCE: Gerhard Uys, Stuff NZ Cyclone Gabrielle and cold snaps in spring last year mean avocados are scarce on supermarket shelves, a grower and supermarket supplier say. Head of domestic avocado sales at fresh produce marketer and exporter Primor Regan Booth said New Zealand sat between two growing seasons. “NormallyContinue Reading
SOURCE: Thi Ha, Vietnam Express Vietnamese dragon fruit exporters are expected to have another difficult year as more countries grow the fruit and make the international market increasingly competitive. According to the General Department of Customs, Vietnam’s exports have been plummeting since 2019. In 2021 and 2022 it did notContinue Reading
SOURCE: IO Team Ugandan start-ups are leading the charge in upcycling banana waste into innovative products, transforming the nation’s circular economy. With 11 million tonnes of bananas produced annually, companies like TexFad, Nsenene, and Green Heat are unlocking the potential of the 70% waste banana production produces. TexFad creates bananaContinue Reading
SOURCE: Raviprasad Kamila, The Hindu The cultivation of Dang Surya, a red jackfruit variety of Malaysian origin, in Karnataka’s coastal region appears to be promising, going by the yield in the orchards of two farmers. T. Ramesh Nayak Thekkatte of Kamaxi Farm in Udupi district, and Gabriel Stany Veigas, aContinue Reading
SOURCE: The Star Wearing a white tank top inside a foggy greenhouse at his farm in Otofuke on the island of Hokkaido in Japan, Hiroyuki Nakagawa plucks ripened mangoes ready to be packed and shipped. Outside the temperature is a freezing -8C on a clear December day, but inside theContinue Reading
SOURCE: Donna Lu, The Guardian Scientists have submitted Australia’s first genetically modified fruit – a Cavendish banana – to regulators for approval, saying it has been engineered to withstand a deadly fungus that poses a threat to banana growers worldwide. The banana, known as QCAV-4, has been genetically modified toContinue Reading
by Vivian Sequera, Reuters A resistant fungus which wilts banana and plantain plants and infects soil could worsen the food crisis in Venezuela, where 6.5 million people already suffer hunger, growers groups and a United Nations agency say. The Fusarium tropical race 4 fungus has so far been located inContinue Reading
SOURCE: Arab News Saudi Arabia is on course to becoming self-sufficient in papaya, with the production of the tropical fruit increasing to 4,717 tons annually, as the Kingdom pushes to raise the rate of cultivation as part of achieving food security under Vision 2030. With 95 percent self-sufficiency, the Kingdom’sContinue Reading