More than 3,000 banana plants were damaged in a whirlwind at a few villages near Sathyamangalam on April 20 night. Farmers, who were expecting a good harvest in two weeks, pegged the loss at several lakh rupees. They said they had planted different varieties such as red banana, nenthiram andContinue Reading
The wholesale cost of the world’s most popular fruit went bananas in the early part of this year. The price that stores paid for bananas hit a record high in the first quarter, pressured by limited supplies in Central and South America, which produce most bananas sold in theContinue Reading
Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) has recently successfully developed year-round dragon fruit in the country by using artificial lighting. BARI held a workshop at Pahartoli of Khulshi in Chattogram on Saturday over the success of the institute where its Director General Dr Abul Kalam Azad was present as chiefContinue Reading
The week-long festival of Zambales province’s most popular produce – mangoes – was celebrated over from April 14-17 as provincial officials formally opened the annual Dinamulag Mango Festival. Dinamulag Festival is an annual thanksgiving for another year of bountiful harvest, officials said. Provincial Administrator and Festival Committee ChairpersonContinue Reading
Tropical Race 4 (TR4), the virulent strain of fungus Fusarium oxysporum cubense that is threatening banana crop globally with the fusarium wilt disease, has hit the plantations in India, the world’s top producer of the fruit. The devastating disease which surfaced in the Cavendish group of bananas in parts ofContinue Reading
Thai durians sold like hot cakes in Thailand after Jack Ma showed the magic of e-commerce during his visit by selling 80,000 golden pillow durians on his online platform T-mall within one minute. While Ma was in Thailand to make a mega-deal on investment on Thursday (April 19), CommerceContinue Reading
Mangoes are a fruit typically associated with tropical climates and summer months, but a Western Australian farmer is proving that wrong. In the town of Harvey, two hours south of Perth and 33 degrees south of the equator, a flourishing mango plantation is still producing fruit, a month afterContinue Reading
When Leah Mutembei was growing up in Kajuki, a village in central Kenya, most farms were dotted with avocado and mango trees. “But now they have all gone,” the 32-year-old maize farmer said from her homestead, gesturing to the barren land nearby. “We had to cut them to make firewoodContinue Reading
With their distinctive yellow color and a different flavor to the more common Southeast Asian varieties, Ecuadorian dragon fruit are taking the world by storm. Figures from the Central Bank of Ecuador show the country’s exports of dragon fruit, also known as pitahaya, rose 71% last year to reachContinue Reading
Ask an English-speaking person whether they’ve heard of a pineapple, and you’ll probably receive little more than a puzzled look. Surely, every schoolchild has heard of this distinctive tropical fruit—if not in its capacity as produce, then as a dessert ring, or smoothie ingredient, or essential component of a Hawaiian pizza.Continue Reading
A China-the United States trade war will affect Indonesia`s exports, Head of the International Relations Department, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Indonesia (FISIP UI) Evi Fitriani said. “Most of Chinese raw materials are imported from Indonesia. The raw materials processed by China and those exported toContinue Reading
The Jazan region will be granted a geographical indication for mangoes grown there. A geographical indication (GI) is a name or sign used on products which corresponds to a specific geographical location or origin. Mangoes were first grown in the region in 1982 when the Argricultural Research CenterContinue Reading
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