SOURCE: Pauline Kairu, The East African Kenya has stepped up the use of the encyrtid wasp to manage the papaya mealybug, which is ranked among top pests affecting papaya and other horticultural crops. The mealybug is also a serious threat to greenhouse farms and can devastate whole crops if leftContinue Reading
Wrapping potato seeds in biodegradable paper made from unusable parts of banana plants reduces the infestation and harmful effects of a nasty plant pathogen—a worm called the potato cyst nematode—and sharply increases potato size and yields. Reported in Nature Sustainability, a recent study shows the banana paper helps disrupt signalsContinue Reading
SOURCE: Glenneis Kriel, Farmers Weekly Mangoes offer a potential turnover of R1 million/ha, but whether this is achieved depends on your production per hectare, when your crop hits the market, and supply and demand, says Bernie van den Heever, co-owner of Cape Mango in the Olifants River region in theContinue Reading
SOURCE: FAO Vegetable oils and dairy products lead the increase, while early forecasts point to strong prospects for maize and wheat in the year ahead The benchmark gauge for world food prices went up in February, reaching an all-time high, led by vegetable oils and dairy products, the Food andContinue Reading
SOURCE: Fred Mientjes, Fruitnet The Kenyan avocado industry has received a welcome boost with China granting access to its fresh products. The deal to export avocados to China, which was originally agreed in April 2019 between Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, has finally come toContinue Reading
SOURCE: Nguyen Tien, Saigon News (Translated by Bao Nghi) On March 1, many fruit traders in Binh Thuan Province said that the price of dragon fruits was only at VND500-VND1,000 per kg on average. The most beautiful dragon fruits (for export) fetched only VND1,500 per kg. In the past threeContinue Reading
SOURCE: Natalie Tso, RTI Taiwan’s atemoyas, or “pineapple sugar-apples,” will be sold in Japan for the first time starting March. Atemoyas are a fruit that are a cross between sugar-apples and the tropical cherimoya fruit. Japan’s decision to import Taiwan’s atemoyas comes after China banned importing the fruit from Taiwan,Continue Reading
SOURCE: The Star Chantanon Wannakhajorn, secretary-general of the Office of Agricultural Economics, said the agency’s teams have devised management plans by surveying farmers, exporters, cooperatives, processing factories and demand at shopping malls. He said the aim is to achieve a balance between demand and supply. Chantanon added that the CommerceContinue Reading
SOURCE: Joymala Bagchi, The India Several sugarcane farmers in Uttar Pradesh are shifting to the banana plantation. Farmers are taking to the banana plantation after facing payment delays and rising input costs in sugarcane cultivation. More than 35 lakh (3.5 million) farmers roughly are stated to be engaged in sugarcaneContinue Reading
SOURCE: Monica Exner, IAEA Office of Public Information and Communication Whether you like your bananas slightly green or spotted, they are mostly grown in the tropics and subtropics where plants require a warm, humid climate to thrive. This is how they produce the yield that feeds the world. However, dueContinue Reading
SOURCE: Debraj Deb, Indian Express Tripura has decided to start work in mission mode over the next five years to promote the growth of pineapples and jackfruits for facilitating their export to foreign countries after their “augmented” growth figures were still found behind expected numbers. Tripura, which announced queen pineappleContinue Reading
SOURCE: Liam O’Callaghan, Fruitnet The Australian lychee industry has identified North America as a key market in its plans to develop exports. The industry has been able to maintain its trans-Pacific supply chain throughout the pandemic with the help of the Australian government’s International Freight Assistance Mechanism (IFAM) programme. ThisContinue Reading