The world’s largest producer of fruit and vegetable has partnered with a vegan textile startup to upcycle its fruit waste into vegan leather. The Dole Sunshine Company has announced its partnership with plant-based startup Ananas Anam who has created the innovative vegan pineapple leather Piñatex. The collaboration is part ofContinue Reading
In a paper published in an MPDI Journal of Fungus, scientists explored disease-biocontrol agents of five Bacillus strains that display antibiotic ability against TR4 in China, one of the largest banana growers in the world.Continue Reading
SOURCE: Tom Joyce, Fruitnet Since avocados are a water-intensive crop, growing them where there are no other competing water demands is critical, according to Kenyan avocado producer and exporter Kakuzi. If not, the company states, criticism will always be levelled at the fruit as “green gold causing environmental havoc”. ToContinue Reading
SOURCE: Jasper Y. Arcalas, Business Mirror The Philippines is not just losing market share in key banana markets to Latin American producers but investments as well, which could threaten the domestic output of the world’s second top producer of the prized yellow fruit, an industry group said. Pilipino Banana GrowersContinue Reading
Farming communities in Uttara Kannada and Dakshina Kannada in Karnataka are demonstrating that much more than banana bread — the flavor of the first year of lockdown — can be made with the fruit.
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SOURCE: Global Trade/Indexbox The demand for bananas remained robust amidst the pandemic. Despite record exports from Ecuador, which remains the world’s largest banana supplier, prices in the largest import markets are rising due to strong demand and local COVID-related imbalances in supply chains. Driven by the growing population, the globalContinue Reading
SOURCE: Fairtrade The Fairtrade Base Wage for banana plantations comes into effect on 1 July 2021, meaning wage increases of up to 15 percent for banana workers and a significant step towards creating a living wage for thousands of banana plantation workers worldwide. The Fairtrade Base Wage is set atContinue Reading
SOURCE: Dhaka Tribune Braving the Covid-19 pandemic, farmers are eying a bumper production of banana this year in Rangpur agriculture region where cultivation of the crop is continuously increasing. Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) officials said farmers have cultivated bananas on 4,209 hectares of land, including on 2,559 hectares duringContinue Reading
SOURCE: Jasper Y. Arcalas, Business Mirror Despite a 14.38-percent contraction in total volume, the Philippines remained as the world’s second top exporter of bananas for the third consecutive year as it shipped 3.725 million metric tons (MMT) of the prized yellow fruit last year. Trade map data of multilateral InternationalContinue Reading
SOURCE: Shaun Turton, Nikkei Asia In early June, nine women in red gowns held platters of mangoes as Cambodian and Chinese dignitaries cut a red ribbon strung between the piles of tropical fruit. Concluded with the release of balloons, the ceremony at a wholesale market in Hebei Province marked theContinue Reading
SOURCE: The Star It is becoming a trend to sell products and goods via social media platforms, especially since the country was hit by Covid-19 and came under the first movement control order on March 18, 2020. Durian traders have also jumped on the online bandwagon to market the kingContinue Reading