Cambodia has urged China to speed work on phytosanitary requirements to greenlight exports of Cambodian mangoes. On Thursday, Agriculture Minister Veng Sakhon and a Chinese delegation led by Hu Wei, Vice Minister of the Administration of Customs of China, met in Phnom Penh to discuss phytosanitary requirements for theContinue Reading
Durian lovers can now enjoy the fruit without having to fork out exorbitant prices. Durian Kaki co-owner Tan Chee Wei, 36, said prices for the King of Fruits had gone down in tandem with the supply increase of the tropical fruit. “At the start of the season,Continue Reading
Banana farming and its sales have given employment to as many as 60,000 people in Nepal. According to Tek Bahadur Singh, a banana expert of HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, Nepal, banana farming is being done in the area of 22,000 hectares of land spreading from Jhapa in the eastContinue Reading
A wide array of fruits were on display at the three-day fruit exhibition at AKM Giasuddin Milky Auditorium at Khamarbari in Dhaka. The Ministry of Agriculture organized the expo, which began on Saturday. The exhibition, which will continue till Monday, consists of 84 stalls from 64 organizations including sevenContinue Reading
The Johor State Executive Council has approved the Green Revolution Project for the Development of Johor Unused Land which will see acreage under government agencies planted with crops like the MD2 pineapple and starfruit. Islamic Religious Affairs, Agriculture and Rural Development Committee chairman, Tosrin Jarvanthi, said: “This is aContinue Reading
A Kerala town has made it mandatory for all new buildings to plant native fruit trees as a condition for the grant of the occupancy certificate, without which the building cannot be occupied. The Left-governed civic body in Kodungallur, Thrissur district, enforced the new rule on World EnvironmentContinue Reading
Rambutan is starting to gain prominence in Europe’s fruit markets and it has had a great reception among Asian consumers who are on living the continent, as well as in specialty stores. According to the market intelligence platform of the Center for the Promotion of Imports from Developing Countries,Continue Reading
The secretary of the Myanmar Fruit, Flower and Vegetable Producers and Exporters Association (MFVP), was quoted recently in the Burmese press as saying that avocados from Myanmar would be granted market access by China within this year. Export of Burmese avocados to China may officially begin by December orContinue Reading
The horticulture department of Tripura on Tuesday stated that in the last one month the state has supplied 172 lakh pieces of pineapple weighing 193.10 MT to different parts of India and Bangladesh. The pineapples supplied from Tripura also included 113 MT of the world class ‘Queen’ variety.Continue Reading
According to the Agrodata Peru website, Peruvian banana exports between January and April 2019 amounted to 53,854,076 dollars, i.e. nearly 13% less than the 61,866,836 dollars achieved in the same period of 2018. The main export destinations include the Netherlands, which accounts for 30% of shipments, the UnitedContinue Reading
If Perlis is famous for its Harumanis mangoes, Malacca can also be proud of its own mango variant, the Malacca Delite, which is a favourite among locals and tourists to this historical state. One Malacca Delite seller, Fatimah Md Isa, 67, who has a stall located in Kampung Gelam,Continue Reading
On Monday, June 10, the price paid to producers of the giant dwarf banana variety, packed in a wooden box, surpassed the 6 pesos per kilo barrier. This price increase is due to the shortage of fruit that can be cut and the existence of high demand in the nationalContinue Reading
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