SOURCE: The Star Durian fans, especially those who love premium varieties like Musang King and Black Thorn, will have to deal with an expected 100% price increase during this year’s durian season. Deputy Agriculture and Food Industry Minister I Datuk Seri Ahmad Hamzah said the price hike was due toContinue Reading
SOURCE: Times of India Farmers engaged in banana cultivation are lamenting that the government has left them to fend for themselves after the recent rain coupled with strong winds destroyed hundreds of their banana plants in Trichy district. The gales had destroyed hundreds of banana trees in Lalgudi, Thottiam, Musiri,Continue Reading
by Liam O’Callaghan, Fruitnet The Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA) has committed P3m (US$570,000) to fund a new Pilipino Banana Growers and Exporters Association (PBGEA) marketing campaign in Japan. According to a report from The Philippine Star, the campaign was designed to improve access and raise prices in one ofContinue Reading
SOURCE: Su Mu-chun and Ko Lin, Focus Taiwan The Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute (TARI) on Tuesday said it had registered with Japan’s agricultural ministry a new pineapple variety that it developed in 2019. The new cultivar, named Tainung No. 23, was developed by TARI’s Chiayi Agricultural Experiment Station, which isContinue Reading
SOURCE: Cait Kelly, The Guardian Farmers have been forced to dump thousands of avocados in far north Queensland because of an oversupply of the fruit and increased transportation and packaging costs. Jan De Lai, a resident of Atherton in far north Queensland, posted the photos of the discarded avocados toContinue Reading
SOURCE: Luisa Sanchez, Guinness World Records If you’re a fan of tropical fruit, we’ve got quite the treat for you! Brazilians Tarcísio Foltz and Gilberto Franz (both Brazil) discovered the world’s tallest papaya tree, standing at 14.55 m (47 ft and 8.83 in) tall. The tree was verified in NovaContinue Reading
by Business Insider Florida oranges had their worst crop in 70 years. They’re facing a deadly disease called citrus greening, spread in the body of the invasive Asian citrus psyllid. Today, nearly every citrus grove in Florida is infected with the disease. If an orange tree were to remain untreated,Continue Reading
SOURCE: The Star The first cargo train fully loaded with Thai durian has reached China on Sunday through the new Chinese-Lao railway service, Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Chalermchai Sri-on said. The shipment consisted of 500 tonnes of durian fruits in 27 containers, according to Thai news agency (TNA). The ministerContinue Reading
SOURCE: Joe McCarthy, Global Citizen Avocado trees have shallow, fibrous roots that are good at holding topsoil in place. They’re also fast-growing, and can yield fruit in a few years. When members of GLOBAL G.L.O.W., working with the Rift Valley Reading Association in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley, were thinking ofContinue Reading
by Produce Report There was a time in China when the storage and ripening of bananas was a major pain point for fruit distributors and wholesalers. That was before high-capacity, modern banana ripening facilities had been built. Nowadays, owing to banana ripening operations such as the one that opened lastContinue Reading
by Andrew Dunne, Horizon: The EU Research & Innovation Magazine/Phys.org In the 1950s, the “Gros Michel” variety of banana was wiped out by Panama disease. The banana crop in some locations was basically eliminated by the disease of fusarium wilt, caused by a pathogen that enters the plant through theContinue Reading
by D. Balasubramanian, The Hindu In the 1985 science fiction film Back to the Future, a flamboyant inventor modifies his car into a plutonium-powered time machine and travels back and forth in time. During a visit to the year 2015, he updates his engine so that it will now takeContinue Reading