SOURCE: Lorna Nicholas, Small Caps Agricultural waste technology company Papyrus Australia (ASX: PPY) has re-confirmed its presence in Egypt where it is offering revenue opportunities for banana producers in the region using their waste. Through joint venture entity Papyrus Egypt, the company has established operations in Sohag. Papyrus Egypt developedContinue Reading
SOURCE: Sarah Tétaud, Axadle In Madagascar, lychee exporters have been living the most important eight days of the season since November 13, the opening date for the fruit harvest. The only real unknown: will Western buyers put litchi on the holiday table? Trucks, vans, wagons: a real broom of lycheeContinue Reading
SOURCE: Saigon News Online Strengthening the connection with overseas Vietnamese businesses in the US is seen as a good opportunity to link and develop distribution channels of specialty products of Vietnam in general, and the Mekong Delta, in particular, to a potential market like the US. According to Mr. BuiContinue Reading
SOURCE: China.org Kenya is likely to resume exports of mangoes to the European Union (EU) in December after a period of five years, a government official said on Tuesday. Benjamin Tito, director, Horticultural Crops Directorate told Xinhua in Nairobi, that the country imposed an export ban of the crop dueContinue Reading
SOURCE: Liam O’Callaghan, Fruitnet The Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) has identified new potential growing regions for Hass avocado as it looks to capitalise on demand in China and offset deforestation. In a statement Emmanuel Piñol, secretary of MinDA, said eight areas had expressed interest in the agency’s environmental farming programme,Continue Reading
by Amit Srivastava, Free Press Journal Though the mango season is yet to begin in India, the Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) Vashi has received a total of 1500 boxes of Malavi mangoes from Africa on Wednesday. This is the second year, when the Malavi mangoes have been imported becauseContinue Reading
SOURCE: New Food Magazine Scientists from the Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International have mapped the potential global spread of the devastating papaya mealybug (Paracoccus marginatus), highlighting new areas in Africa, Asia and the Americas into which this pest could potentially invade. The papaya mealybug, which is native to MexicoContinue Reading
SOURCE: Diario Sur TRANSLATION: Freshplaza The Agrarian Transformation Society (SAT) Trops and Vodafone have launched a pilot project to provide mango harvesting machines with artificial intelligence so they can decide in real-time if the fruit is ready to be harvested based on the fruit’s size, appearance, and point of maturity.Continue Reading
SOURCE: The Hindu Kerala’s famed ‘Nendran’ bananas are all set to be shipped to London in March next year. The trial export to London is in accordance with the sea-shipment protocol of the Vegetable and Fruit Promotion Council, Keralam (VFPCK), a company established to bring about overall development of theContinue Reading
Source: International Center for Tropical Agriculture, phys.org The banana has its earliest origins in Papua New Guinea, where it was domesticated by indigenous communities at least 7,000 years ago. This ancestor, Musa acuminata, subspecies Banksii, looks very different from the ubiquitous Cavendish banana: peeling back its skin reveals hundreds ofContinue Reading
SOURCE: Tim Dornin, The Canberra Times Mangoes sent to South Australia from a Northern Territory supplier are being withdrawn from supermarket shelves and fumigated or destroyed after the discovery of Jarvis fruit fly maggots. All fruit sent from the particular grower to SA since October 5, including some still inContinue Reading
SOURCE: Courtney Fowler, ABC Mango growers in Kununurra are facing one of their most challenging mango harvests yet, off the back of a decade of dwindling yields out of Western Australia’s Ord Irrigation Scheme. At its peak, WA’s largest mango-growing region produced well in excess of half a million trays.Continue Reading