After more than five years and $26 million, the Northern Territory has been declared free of banana freckle. The fungal disease was found on Cavendish bananas back in 2013, which led to an eradication program that saw thousands of banana plants removed from across the Top End. Continue Reading
One of Australia’s largest pineapple farms has emerged near the Northern Territory town of Humpty Doo. Owned by the Queensland-based Piñata Farms, the NT property has almost 4 million pineapple plants in the ground this year. “We’re learning a lot and things are improving all of theContinue Reading
Khirsapat mango of Chapainawabganj, popularly known as Himsagar, yesterday got the Geographical Indication (GI) tag from the local intellectual property right authority — a development that is expected to help growers get better prices and benefit consumers. The popular summer fruit has become the third product after hilsaContinue Reading
A rare durian fruit is causing a stir in Indonesia, where the pungent delicacy is selling for the equivalent of $1,000 each, or more than three times the average monthly wage. The so-called “J-Queen” variety has gone sale at a shopping centre in Tasikmalaya, West Java – where severalContinue Reading
Fruit and vegetable exports, which have been growing at around 15 per cent annually for the past five years, are a highly attractive business activity for enterprises, which are increasingly investing in large and modern processing plants. Long An Province-based Lavifood Joint Stock Company earlier this month put intoContinue Reading
As the price of pineapple crashed recently, Nadukkara Agro Processing company through Horticorp will procure 200 tonnes of pineapple from the farmers. A meeting chaired by Eldho Abraham MLA and attended by Nadukkara Agro Processing company MD Shibu Kumar, directors, pineapple merchants and pineapple farmers associations was held at MuvattupuzhaContinue Reading
In Togo, the pineapple sector just received from the European Union a support facility of about CFA4 billion (USD 6.9 million). The financing is provided in the framework of a project to boost the pineapple industry’s competitiveness. Co-financed by the European Fund for Development (EDF) and the GermanContinue Reading
An update of satellite maps linked to NASA reveal that there were 66,266 hectares of pineapple planted by 2017, as shown by the satellite images of the Monitoring Productive Landscape Use Changes (MOCUPP) of Costa Rica, prepared by the PRIAS Laboratory of the National High Technology Center (CENAT) of CONARE.Continue Reading
In a farm employing a sophisticated technique to develop cold-resistant bananas in Okayama Prefecture, western Japan, disabled people play a major role in the routine work of watering, fertilizing and removing yellowing leaves from the plants. Every morning, several mentally disabled workers come to the banana farm ofContinue Reading
Tracking devices have been placed on Burdekin mangoes in a bid to deliver a better quality of fruit to consumers. The pilot project aims to enhance monitoring of northern Australia mangoes as they are trucked from the farm gate to retailers. Manbulloo Limited’s Horseshoe Lagoon property is theContinue Reading
A Dutch university has grown the Netherlands’ first crop of bananas as part of a research programme that could help protect the fruit from a deadly fungus that threatens production worldwide. Wageningen University grew 60 banana plants in its greenhouses on coco peat and rock wool, avoiding the threatContinue Reading
The world’s first crop of bananas grown without soil was harvested, as part of an effort to stem the spread of a deadly fungus that threatens the future of the fruit. Scientists and researchers are trying to stop Panama disease, a soil-dwelling fungus that is devastating plantations around theContinue Reading
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