SOURCE: Zoe Wood, The Guardian The huge popularity of bananas makes them a weapon in UK supermarket price wars, but the tactic is hurting farmers amid soaring production costs, growers have said. The major supermarket chains are ignoring the impact of higher raw material and freight costs because they wantContinue Reading
SOURCE: Khabarhub Baglung has witnessed increasing commercial farming of dragon fruit that has drawn a huge demand in the market, of late. Pratiman Thapa, a local of Kathekhola rural municipality-1, Pala Karina of Baglung, has initiated cultivating dragon fruit in the barren land after he returned home from overseas employment.Continue Reading
SOURCE: Produce Report Peak pomelo season has arrived in China, with pomelo crops currently ripening and hitting the market. In recent years, China has seen a high turnover in pomelo varieties, with some quality varieties that previously enjoyed great popularity now falling from favor. This year, prices remain low, andContinue Reading
SOURCE: United Nations Bogale Borena set up an avocado nursery in Yirgalem in the south of Ethiopia, and has been so successful with the venture that he was named as one of 17 Food Heroes by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Agency. Food Heroes are recognized for their commitment toContinue Reading
SOURCE: Chris Komorek, Fruitnet Mango shoot looper, the invasive pest from Asia, has been found in Mareeba, Mutchilba and Biboohra in North Queensland according to Biosecurity Queensland at Department of Agriculture and Fishing. It’s the first time the exotic moth has been detected in the country. DAF announced it wasContinue Reading
SOURCE: Lucía Vásconez, El Comercio TRANSLATION: Freshplaza Data published by the Central Bank of Ecuador (ECB) confirms that banana and plantain exports between January and August 2021 have decreased when compared to the same period of the previous year. In this period, shipments of Musaceae to international markets reached aContinue Reading
SOURCE: The Star In the five years since 2016, the value of durian exports abroad has grown by RM74.8 million or 107 per cent, said Deputy Agriculture and Food Industries Minister I Datuk Seri Ahmad Hamzah. He said the great response to Malaysian durians had caused the value of durianContinue Reading
SOURCE: Fresh Fruit Portal Photographs of mangos as big as soccer balls that were harvested in the department of Santander, Colombia went viral. A local news source said that Liliana Garnica Ruíz has the giant mango crops on her farm and that the fruit was from organic crops that useContinue Reading
SOURCE: Sybilla Gross, Bloomberg Australia is swimming in avocados thanks to bumper harvests and months of stay-at-home orders that have kept people away from cafe brunches. Once considered a symbol of lavishness on the brunch menu, avocado prices in Australia more than halved from around A$3 ($2.21) a piece toContinue Reading
SOURCE: Lindi Botha, Farmers Weekly Any crop can be seen as ‘easy’ or ‘difficult’ to cultivate, depending on how you manage it and your yield expectations. This is especially true of mangoes,” says Johann du Preez, general manager of Bavaria Fruit Estates in Hoedspruit, Limpopo. “You can leave mangoes toContinue Reading
SOURCE: Livemint A team of Indian scientists has used tea and banana waste to prepare non-toxic activated carbon, which could useful for industrial pollution control, water purification, food and beverage processing, and odour removal. The newly developed process avoids usage of toxic agent for synthesising activated carbon, thus making theContinue Reading
SOURCE: Fresh Fruit Portal The Queensland Government is offering three elite mango varieties for commercial development that have the potential for domestic and export markets. The varieties were developed under the National Mango Breeding Program, Minister for Agricultural Industry Development and Fisheries Mark Furner said. “We’re very optimistic about theseContinue Reading