SOURCE: Business World Mango farmers who do not properly manage canopy growth run the risk of less productive cultivation because the overlap in trees forces fruit to grow in the shade, to the detriment of quality and harvest volume, agronomists said. Graciela L. Caballero, who chairs the agroforestry department atContinue Reading
SOURCE: Ben Harden, Queensland Country Life After cyclonic winds, associated with tropical cyclone Niran, devastated the Capricorn Coast’s banana industry in early March, several banana farms are now getting back to full production. Hundreds of hectares of banana trees across the Cassowary Coast and Northern Tablelands were impacted, with someContinue Reading
SOURCE: The Sun Daily Fertile peat soils have enabled the Iban community in Kampung Sumping in Muara Payang here, become one of the top pineapple producers for the district. To date, almost all 11 families living in the village are involved in the cultivation of the Nanas Sarikei variety. AmongContinue Reading
SOURCE: Global Times Thoeun Sannikthik, a third-year student at the Royal University of Agriculture (RUA) in Cambodia, was glad to be one of the participants in a Chinese-organized training workshop on standardized banana production technologies, saying that the course was very valuable for agriculture students. Lectured via video link byContinue Reading
SOURCE: Clement Reid, Irie FM The Pineapple Growers Association has expressed concern about the rising cost of fertilizer. President of the association Everton Farquharson, told Irie FM news that the cost of the fertilizer which is needed to improve crop yield, continues to increase almost, every month. He is callingContinue Reading
SOURCE: Vietnam+ When the lychee harvest time of 2021 came, Bac Giang was still a COVID-19 epicentre with thousands of infection cases. Striving to concurrently fight against the pandemic and promote lychee sale, this northern province took flexible and creative measures to secure a successful crop. A lychee crop withContinue Reading
SOURCE: Sainiani Boila, FBC News Fiji imports $17million worth of fresh fruits annually. These fruits include grapes, oranges, apples, pears and kiwi fruit together with $3.8million worth of processed fruits. These imported fruits have substituted locally grown tropical fruits such as guava, mango, avocado, mandarin and other indigenous fruits inContinue Reading
SOURCE: Susan Marais, Farmers Weekly Despite improved producer prices, pineapple farmers are feeling the pinch of rising input costs. Former Agricultural Writers South Africa’s farmer of the year Fred Visser, owner of Gwanzi Queen Pineapples near Hluhluwe in KwaZulu-Natal, told Farmer’s Weekly that the plastic covering for the plants andContinue Reading
SOURCE: Marco Campos, Produce Blue Book With an average volume of 73,000 tons, Mexico was ranked the world’s seventh largest exporter of fresh or dried pineapples during 2016-2020, with a 1.9 percent share in global sales of fruit. According to data from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, reportedContinue Reading
SOURCE: Sina TRANSLATION: Freshplaza Due to the continuous influence of the double-festival effect, the market for imported fruit transactions in October still showed a strong sales trend. According to statistics, the transaction volume of imported fruits increased by 42.24% year-on-year; the transaction volume increased by 98% year-on-year. The overall averageContinue Reading
SOURCE: AP News The Spanish Navy has started helping farmers on the volcanic island of La Palma to reach their lava-surrounded banana plantations by sea, Spain’s Defense Ministry said on Thursday. A scale 5 earthquake overnight offered a reminder that the eruption on the island of 85,000 is continuing strongContinue Reading
SOURCE: The Star The Agriculture Department has not received any report of Helicobacter “worms” attacking banana crops in Malaysia, said its director-general Datuk Zahimi Hassan. He said the viral video on the alleged discovery of Helicobacter worms in bananas contained unauthentic and dubious information. Zahimi explained that Helicobacter is aContinue Reading