SOURCE: Liam O’Callaghan, Fruitnet Dragon fruit industry sweats on 300,000 tonnes of fruit as harvest nears and China restricts trade China’s decision to restrict dragon fruit imports from Vietnam has left growers with around 300,000 tonnes of nearly ripe fruit and a lack of buyers. According to a report fromContinue Reading
SOURCE: Jacob Mosenda/The Citizen The Ministry of Agriculture has announced the opening of another avocado market in India, providing opportunity for the crop’s stakeholders and farmers to export the product to overseas markets. In a statement sent to the public on Tuesday November, 30, the ministry said the health authoritiesContinue Reading
The joint extensive efforts by All Pakistan Fruit and Vegetable Exporters Association (PFVA), Department of Plant Production (DPP) serving under the Federal Ministry of National Food Security and Research and Ministry of Commerce, have paved the way for Pakistan’s huge revenue generation from the important international market of Kenya inContinue Reading
SOURCE: The Sun A study conducted by the Malaysian Pineapple Industry Board (LPNM) found that 90 per cent of pineapple entrepreneurs, produced under the board’s programmes, have obtained an average income of RM5,000 a month, thus removing them from the low-income household group (B40) bracket. LPNM director-general, Mohd Khairuzamri MContinue Reading
SOURCE: Hindustan Times The US has approved import of mangoes and pomegranates from India and secured New Delhi’s approval to supply of cherries, alfalfa hay, pork and pork products to India, the two governments said in separate statements. The export of Indian mangoes and pomegranates to the US is inContinue Reading
SOURCE: Salome Alwanda, Kenya News It is around 5.00 pm and the hot sun in Busia begins to cool down. I then decide to venture out just to find more about the jackfruit. My adventure takes me to a billboard structure along Busia – Korinda road where I find aContinue Reading
SOURCE: The Times of India Consistent incidents of fog in the mornings for a prolonged are likely to impact the cashew and mango fruit setting process, say agriculture experts. This is especially worrying in the face of the late flowering season which was delayed due to unseasonal rain this month.Continue Reading
SOURCE: The Hokkaido Shimbun Press, Kyodonews A mango producer in northern Japan’s Hokkaido which grows the tropical fruit using heat from local hot springs and harvests them in winter has begun shipping to high-end supermarkets in Hong Kong in December. This is the first time for Noraworks Japan, headquartered inContinue Reading
SOURCE: Danielle Keeton-Olsen, Roun Ry, China Dialogue It’s been three years since the forest was shorn from the hillside to make way for plantation. And yet Prum Ya only received permission this year to begin planting mango trees on 20 hectares of these foothills at the edge of Kirirom NationalContinue Reading
SOURCE: Zulfiqar Kunbhar, Arab News HYDERABAD, Sindh: Scientists in Pakistan’s southeast Sindh province have begun extracting fiber from banana waste in what textile industry stakeholders and farmers hope could become an alternative to cotton. Banana fiber is one of the strongest natural fibers. Biodegradable and similar to bamboo fiber, itContinue Reading
SOURCE: Vincent D’Silva, New Strait Times Three Form Four students of SM I.J. Convent here won second prize at the National Tinkering Challenge 2021 held in Kuala Lumpur recently for developing packaging material from banana stems. Some 200 students nationwide took part in the competition, which called for submissions forContinue Reading
SOURCE: Hannah Osborne, Newsweek A “devastating” disease that makes bananas look like they are bleeding when stems are cut has been found in mainland Malaysia and looks set to spread across southeast Asia, scientists have said. Banana Blood disease is caused by a type of bacteria that causes the plantContinue Reading