SOURCE: Australian Associated Press, The Guardian About 1,200 South Pacific fruit pickers are expected to arrive in South Australia to help fill critical shortages of seasonal agriculture workers. The SA government’s attempts to encourage unemployed locals to take up fruit picking jobs failed to attract enough workers. A regional Covid-19Continue Reading
SOURCE: The Hindu Pineapple farmers across the State are possibly looking at around 20% rise in fruit production, even as demand has gone up in north India following the winter season and COVID-19 restrictions. Farmers, numbering around 5,000, have brought more area under cultivation, as planters opted out of rubberContinue Reading
SOURCE: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News Just as Taiwan is intensifying its exports of pineapples to Japan following a ban by China, the Japanese ordered the removal of 750 boxes of Taiwanese bananas due to excessive levels of fungicides, reports said Saturday (March 13). However, the Council of Agriculture’s Agriculture andContinue Reading
The agriculture ministry on Monday said the Mango production in the country is estimated to increase by 4.24% to 21.12 million tonnes in the crop year 2020-21 ending June.Continue Reading
SOURCE: Sainiani Boila, Fbc News With increased papaya and pineapple production, the Agriculture sector is now packaging them as dried fruits for the international market. Output has increased to 4000 and 7000 metric tonnes respectively. Agriculture Minister Dr Mahendra Reddy says the commodities will help farmers and generate income forContinue Reading
Penang’s durian season will be late this year but better quality fruits are expected when they start falling in May.Continue Reading
Researchers in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, IntelinAir, Inc. and Columbia University are investigating whether remote sensing and computer vision can help pineapple growers carry out regular inspection of the field and automated counting of flower intensity.Continue Reading
For the second time in two years, Gildardo Urrego is scooping up piles of dead bees after an invisible evil invaded his hives in northwest Colombia, wreaking havoc among his swarms.Continue Reading
SOURCE: Huang Lanlan, Global Times Chinese mainland’s latest import ban on pineapples from Taiwan will hit the island’s pineapple industry hard, which highly depends on the mainland market, said industry insiders from both sides of the Taiwan Straits reached by the Global Times on Friday. Starting March 1, mainland customsContinue Reading
SOURCE: Gillian Caliste, Trinidad and Tobago Guardian A mango tree expected to bear eight types of mangoes and a tree that will yield both balata and sapodilla. These are some of the innovative offerings of Rajesh Ram and Sadee Sanichar-Ram of the Exotic Fruit Plant Shed in New Grant, PrincesContinue Reading
SOURCE: Saudi Gazette Saudi Arabian authorities have imposed a permanent ban on planting of palm trees along roads as well as in parks and gardens across the Kingdom. This is part of the measures to prevent the spread of the red palm weevil and in line with the recommendation ofContinue Reading
SOURCE: Dan Nosowitz, Modern Farmer Citrus greening disease, sometimes known by its Chinese name of huanglongbing, is one of the most devastating problems to face the fruit industry in years. According to the USDA, “Citrus Greening (Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus) is one of the most serious citrus plant diseases in theContinue Reading