SOURCE: Luciana Viegas, IAEA “Irradiated for freshness” written across a juicy mango may raise some eyebrows, but the label has guaranteed Viet Nam exports worth US$20 million a year to the United States. Using irradiation to disinfest fruit is gaining traction in the premium produce trade, and Viet Nam, withContinue Reading
SOURCE: Palisa Anderson, The Guardian It was already close to 9pm. The race was on. We had exactly five minutes to drive to a secret location before the elderly Amma closed up for the night. We had to pick up our durian. Let me set the scene: I was inContinue Reading
SOURCE: Bilkis Irani, Dhaka Tribune In Bangladesh, cultivation of the fruit began in fiscal 2014-15 on five hectares of land and is a profitable crop today for the 25,000 growers. Much has been said about Vietnam closing in on Bangladesh’s long-undisputed number two spot in the global apparel market. ButContinue Reading
SOURCE: The Japan News The banpeiyu is one of the world’s largest citrus, and farms in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture, are busy sending the fruits nationwide as it is its peak shipping season. The local specialty is a type of pomelo, a member of the mandarin orange family, and each citrusContinue Reading
SOURCE: Opportimes TRANSLATION: Freshplaza Mexico’s mango exports between January and October 2020 increased by 4.5% in value over the same period of the previous year, totaling 325.7 million dollars. The export volume increased by 2.5%, totaling 409,800 tons, according to data from the Ministry of Agriculture. The growth of MexicanContinue Reading
SOURCE: The Star The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted local agricultural products and exports, especially to China, disrupting agricultural value chains and posing risks to farming households. According to Dr Đào Thế Anh, deputy director of the Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the most affected agricultural products are fresh fruits, vegetablesContinue Reading
SOURCE: Jasper Y. Arcalas, Business Mirror JAPAN is poised to overtake China as the Philippines’s top banana export market this year as total purchase by Japan ending September grew 8.8 percent on the back of firmer consumer demand during the Covid-19 pandemic. Preliminary Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) trade data showedContinue Reading
SOURCE: Dhel Nazario, Manila Bulletin Fruits indigenous to the country have been found to be rich in antioxidants by researchers from the University of the Philippines Los Baños. These fruits – as-is, binukaw, kamansi, kolong-kolong, niyog-niyogan, paho, sampinit, pili, and bignay – have been confirmed by chemists from UPLB toContinue Reading
SOURCE: Vishwa Mohan, Times of India India’s use of technology for crop improvement might be finally catching up after years of neglect with Indian scientists making progress in using gene-editing to develop Vitamin A-rich banana and improved varieties of rice, millets, pulses and tomato even as absence of a regulatoryContinue Reading
SOURCE: Manuel Rueda, Business Insider A company in Colombia is making eco-friendly plates out of the tops of old pineapples. And just like a pineapple top you can plant in your backyard, the plates made by Lifepack contain seeds that can sprout in soil. The plates are Lifepack’s latest effortContinue Reading
SOURCE: Nacho Sanchez, El Pais TRANSLATION: Freshplaza Avocado cultivation in Malaga has grown exponentially in recent decades. According to data from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food, the province has gone from having 50 avocado trees in 1943 to 1.5 million avocado trees in almost 7,000 hectares nowadays. ThisContinue Reading
SOURCE: Marvin Barquero, La Nacion TRANSLATION: Freshplaza Honduras’ Hass avocado has gone from accounting for 4.17% of all Costa Rican imports of this fruit in 2018 to 30% in the first nine months of 2020, positioning the Central American country as Costa Rica’s leading supplier of Hass avocado. According toContinue Reading