In 2017, the Southeast Asian country earned US$167.9 million from banana exports. The figure dipped to USD 112 million in 2018, but is expected to rise to $168 million in 2019, according to the Lao Ministry of Industry and Commerce. The bulk of the crop will be soldContinue Reading
China is increasing its imports of fruits, berries and nuts and may for the first time exceed the mark of USD 10 billion in 2019. According to EastFruit analysts, imports of fruits, nuts and berries to China in the first four months of 2019 rose to USD 3.1 billion,Continue Reading
During these troubled times in Venezuela, the mango has a new identity. “We call them ‘the noise takers’ because they calm down the noise that our stomachs make when we are hungry,” says Danilson Hernández, who manages a modest business that upholsters vehicles in Maracaibo, Venezuela. AndContinue Reading
For the first time, researchers from ICAR Research Complex for NEH, Umiam, have mapped the mitochondrial genome of a beetle. Known as guava trunk borer, the beetle thrives on the guava and litchi trees in the northeastern region of India. To address this issue, an international research team, which includedContinue Reading
A slight but distinct aroma of the King of Fruits wafted through the air within the ballroom of a hotel here as booths were set up to promote durian and its products in China. A two-day Malaysia Durian Festival was organised in conjunction with the Belt and Road ForumContinue Reading
Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno L. P. Marsudi and Chinese Customs and Excise Minister Ni Yue Feng inked a trade protocol on mangosteen exports to the economic giant, Thursday, after it permitted Indonesia to re-export. “This cooperation is part of the efforts to boost connectivity and investment,” Marsudi remarked beforeContinue Reading
May will see Jamaica send its first mango shipments to the US, according to Audley Shaw, the country’s minister of industry, commerce, agriculture and fisheries. According to the Jamaica Information Service (JIS), the exported mangoes will be facilitated through the Mango Irradiation Programme, which stipulates the fruit must be treatedContinue Reading
In October last year, a techie turned agriculturist, Yathish Shetty from Bengaluru, along with his wife, launched an online portal ‘Local Farmer’ exclusively for farmers to sell their produce directly to the customers. Around the same time, 150 kilometres away in Chikmagalur district of Karnataka, Shivanna, an engineer turnedContinue Reading
A young doctor travelled to nine countries where dragon fruit is cultivated to grow the exotic fruit in Telangana State, after he saw a few enthusiastic farmers in India struggling to reap dividends by cultivating this crop. Cultivating dragon fruit by identifying heat-tolerant and high-productive varieties, Dr Srinivasa Rao MadhavaramContinue Reading
Dot Walton loves avocado but it’s more than she can stomach paying $5 (USD 3.29) for each one at this time of year. The New Plymouth woman usually starts each day with ground nuts, Vegemite and avocado on toast and is used to the price of her breakfast fix fluctuating.Continue Reading
Taiwan will produce less than half the normal amount of lychees for the first time in almost 50 years because the past winter was not cold and wet enough, reports said Wednesday (April 17). The Council of Agriculture (COA) said that only 20 percent of lychee and longan treesContinue Reading
The Department of Agriculture (DA) hopes to meet with the Japanese government to seek an easing of its 100% testing regime for Philippine banana imports, after inspectors found unacceptable levels of chemical residue in one shipment last year. “We are meeting with banana sector leaders in Davao tonight,” Mr.Continue Reading
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