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
SOURCE: Lo Tern Cheng Durians may cost more in the coming harvest season this April due to a spike in the cost of fertilisers and pesticides. Farmer Max Goh, 46, said the price of multiple kinds of fertiliser used on his farm of about 400 trees has gone up byContinue Reading
SOURCE: Deepa Shivaram, NPR The U.S. Department of Agriculture is resuming inspections of avocados from Mexico, the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City announced Friday. The move allows the U.S. to resume imports of the popular fruit, which had been temporarily halted for nearly a week. The ban, which went intoContinue Reading
SOURCE: Maura Maxwell, Fruitnet Mexico is set to export around 61.66m cartons of fresh mangoes to the US market in 2022, a similar volume to last year. The quality of the crop is reported to be excellent. Eduardo Castillejos, president of the Association of Mango Exporters of Mexico (Emex), saidContinue Reading
SOURCE: Daiji World India’s pineapple exports rose by almost 100 per cent to $3.26 million during the April-December period in 2021, compared to $1.63 million recorded in the corresponing period of 2013, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry informed on Monday. The major export destinations last year were the UAEContinue Reading
SOURCE: Kasan M., Bangsamoro The start of commercial operations of the state-of-the-art pineapple packing plant of Wao Development Corporation (WDC), a subsidiary of multinational fruit company, Dole Philippines, Inc. (Dolefil), was formally launched thru a ceremonial ribbon cutting by the officials from the Regional Bangsamoro Board of Investments (BBOI) onContinue Reading
SOURCE: Lottie Limb, Euronews Banana peels zapped with a powerful lamp can be instantly turned into renewable energy, scientists have discovered. This new method of extracting hydrogen – also possible with corn cobs, coffee beans and coconut shells – could be a significant way of boosting supplies of the gasContinue Reading
SOURCE: Liza Sambrano, Expreso TRANSLATION: Freshplaza The presidents of Ecuador and the People’s Republic of China, Guillermo Lasso and Xi Jinping, reached an agreement in the Memorandum of Understanding for the signing of a Free Trade Agreement. This trade agreement would be very important for the Ecuadorian banana sector asContinue Reading