Forget apples, pears and clementines. In some parts of the world, fruit isn’t just sphere-shaped with a colorful peel. In Hawaii, for example, they eat a fruit with multicolored spikes that looks more like a Pokemon than something edible. The mysterious fruit comes from a tree called theContinue Reading
The Philippines has boasted of an early win in its pivot from the US to China: a surge in sales of tropical fruits for which President Rodrigo Duterte’s home island is renowned. Exports of Philippine bananas have soared since the outspoken leader’s landmark October trip to Beijing led China toContinue Reading
The sweet smell of fermenting fruit fills the streets around the modest Havana home where Orestes Estevez and his family fill glass jugs with grapes, ginger and hibiscus, then slip a condom over each glass neck to start the unusual process of winemaking in a land famed for rum. FromContinue Reading
The road to Thimmamma Marrimanu leads through one of the driest parts of India. I picked it up in a town called Kadiri and drove another hour through camelback mountains and peanut fields. Granite boulders covered the brown landscape like a crumble topping. Nature had been stingy with the flora—saving up,Continue Reading
A new project will be allowing banana growers in the tropics to stop shipping 95 percent of their production to Argentina. Guzmán explained that the pilot test to export the product lasted from 9 December to 20 January. In that time, the fruit was kept in a cold chamber inContinue Reading
As Cyclone Debbie barrels across the north Queensland coast, Australia’s winter fruit supply is in danger of being wiped out. The storm, which on Tuesday night was downgraded to category two, is expected to tear through large parts of the coast, from Ayr to St Lawrence, with possible wind speeds of upContinue Reading
New Zealand imports about 72,000 tonnes of bananas annually, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation. Each New Zealander eats around 18kg of bananas a year – an estimated cost of about $88 per household, or more than $142 million a year. New Zealand imports more bananasContinue Reading
A natural compound found in mangosteens could be the answer to provide a new drug in the fight against tuberculosis (TB), according to a study by researchers from National University of Singapore’s Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS Medicine). Researchers found that xanthones, with its anti-oxidant and anti-bacterialContinue Reading
Normally, the salak skin would be thrown in the trash. However, under the hands of a junior high school known as Sekolah Menengah Pertama (SMP) Muhammadiyah Programme Course or Program Khusus (PK), the skin can now be made into a refreshing drink. This processing was done by 30 students who came together underContinue Reading
Lampung Town- The Pondoh Salak comodities had initially thought to have originated from Yogyakarta identical from Yogyakarta, but had turned out not to be true. At Kabupaten Pesawaran salak were grown by Bumi Adnan and were able to produce pondoh salak which has unique characteristics. Pondoh Salak producing districtContinue Reading
Bojonegoro (beritajatim.com) – Hundreds of people looked happy. Despite the long wait, their spirits were not dampened as they awaited the loads of salak that will be paraded. The loads of approximately four meters high was made with a pile of hundreds of the fruits. This was the people’sContinue Reading
In the throes of a prolonged dry spell, the people of Karnataka may have something to cheer about with the early arrival of mangoes this year. Prolonged drought in the State has induced flowering in mango trees, resulting in the arrival of the fruit three months before season. However,Continue Reading
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