The Food and Drug Administration, citing eight foodborne illness outbreaks linked to papayas since 2011, has alerted all handlers of the fruit that repeated outbreaks are unacceptable and the industry must take action to step up food safety efforts. The papaya industry also needs to fund research to determineContinue Reading
The banana disease Fusarium wilt Tropical Race IV (TR4) has spread on the three farms in Queensland, Australia, since the initial 2015 detection. But Australia’s Department of Agriculture said the disease (a.k.a. Panama disease) has not spread to other Tulley Valley farms. “The disease has spread uphill andContinue Reading
Organizers of the Asia Fruit Logistica 2019 announced in their website that the event will take place as planned on 4-6 September 2019, with Asiafruit Congress on 3 September 2019. The decision is based on a representative majority of primary exhibitors, whose opinion on whether to continue orContinue Reading
On top of the avocados, kiwis and cape gooseberries they are already growing, Turkish farmers continue to lean toward new alternatives, producing different types of tropical fruit that can easily adapt to the Mediterranean region. Many products are planted in the region, with the most popular being bananas, avocados, passionContinue Reading
To start off, the 200-year-old market is absolutely fascinating! You are surrounded by water and hundreds of boats filled with guavas. If you look above, you can see the blue sky with grey hues. The place is so serene that it feels calm, no matter how much noise you make.Continue Reading
For Ismail Hossain, 45, rice farming twice a year has been a tradition for generations and the only source of income for his family of five. Two years ago, the Muslim father of three decided to quit traditional rice farming in favor of mangoes, so he planted mango saplings allContinue Reading
Pakistan is a major producer of the world’s best and most popular mangoes, ranking the 4th largest in the world with an annual output of around 1.8 million tons. The sweet and juicy mangoes earn its reputation in European and Gulf countries and serves as a main pillar of Pakistan’sContinue Reading
A research project has brought together artificial intelligence (AI), satellites, cloud computing and the internet of things (IoT) to help farmers detect diseased bananas using a smartphone app. The AI tool is built into an app called Tumaini, which means ‘hope’ in Swahili. It uses image recognition technologyContinue Reading
Colombia has declared a national state of emergency following confirmation that a dread fungus has appeared in the country’s banana plantations. The 8 August declaration marks the first time that Fusarium wilt tropical race 4 (TR4), which has devastated crops in Asia, has been confirmed in Latin America, the world’sContinue Reading
Minister for Agriculture, Dr. Mahendra Reddy says that they are working towards having more fruit orchards in the future so that the fruit market can be exploited. He says that taking data for the last five years into account, the average annual value of fruits imported was $16.3 millionContinue Reading
With Australia’s multi-billion-dollar agriculture sector reliant on bee pollination, a stinky technique could diversify other insect pollinators to favour crops. University of Western Sydney researcher Jonathan Finch has been placing fish carcasses across a large commercial mango orchard near Katherine in the Northern Territory in the hope of studyingContinue Reading
Japan has reported yet another breach of its quarantine regulation by a banana shipper from the Philippines in July, raising apprehension anew that Tokyo may impose stricter measures against Philippine banana shipments and scale down its preference over the homegrown fruit. The Philippine agriculture attaché in Japan, Samuel B.Continue Reading
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