SOURCE: David Winning, The Wall Street Journal To harvest red papaya in northern Australia’s tropical heat, farmer Paul Fagg has long drawn on an unusual labor pool of overseas tourists. Not this year. Australia crushed the coronavirus with one of the strictest border-control regimes in the world. But that successContinue Reading
SOURCE: Thai Business News With seasonal fruit about to hit the market, including durian, rambutan, and mangosteen, the Thai-Chinese Chamber of Commerce has singed an agreement with CCIC Thailand to provide better traceability service for Thai fruit exported to China, following a new traceability requirement for all imported farm productsContinue Reading
SOURCE: Produce Report According to a report from the fruit branch of the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Foodstuffs, Native Produce and Animal By-Products, China’s customs statistics indicate that the value of fruit imports exceeded $10 billion for the first time in 2020, reaching a totalContinue Reading
SOURCE: Ace June S. Perez, Sun Star A breakthrough farming technology enabling mangosteen to be an all-season fruit will soon be rolled-out in Davao Region. This direction will be realized once the proposed funding for the continuation of the “Development of Package of Technology for Off-Season Mangosteen Production” study byContinue Reading
The import of tropical fruits to Iran cost as much as $500 million annually, Mohammad-Mehdi Boroumandi, an official with Agriculture Ministry, said.Continue Reading
From humble origins on a 1.5-acre plot to flowering into a multi-million dollar industry for cultivators, Colombia recently over-took leading avocado producing nations as the main supplier of Hass to Europe, dominating 30% of the total market share.Continue Reading
Hannington Abaasa, a resident of Kisalosalo zone in Kyebando, a suburb of Kampala says that it takes patience and endurance to survive in the business. He wakes up very early in the morning and goes to different markets in Kampala city where he usually buys pineapples. At the markets, he buys pineapples at different prices depending on the size and appearance.Continue Reading
Three years ago, Chheng Ros, a 58-year-old farmer in Kampong Cham province’s Kang Meas district, made a blunderous decision to cut down all his banana trees to make way for mango farming which was getting more expensive than bananas.Continue Reading
The Rural Development Secretariat of the National Agricultural Health, Safety, and Quality Service (Senasica) has ordered suspending the aerial fumigation to combat pests in Oaxaca’s mango productions to avoid harming other species.Continue Reading
After seven years of extensive research, the Banana Research Centre (BRC) in Jalgaon — which functions under the Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth (MPKV) — has come up with a new kind of banana variety, which has been named ‘Phule Pride.’Continue Reading
Ecuador’s most westerly point, the Santa Elena peninsula, is fast becoming a hub for the country’s organic banana production thanks to the favorable climate and an abundance of virgin land.Continue Reading
SOURCE: Vietnam + More than 14,000 tonnes of dragon fruit were exported to China from February 10-17 (the seven-day Lunar New Year holiday) through border gates in the northern province of Lao Cai, according to the provincial Border Gate Customs Sub-Department. Lao Cai authorities, including customs, border guards, and medicalContinue Reading