Dominican Exporters Association (ADOEXPO) president Sadala Khoury on Sunday warned that the “Panama blight” is wreaking havoc on banana plantations in several countries and asked the authorities to take steps to prevent damages to one of the country’s main export products.   He said income from bananas is more thanContinue Reading

by Parthasarathi Biswas, Indian Express   Ahead of another mango season, the Pune fruit market is staring at a likely loss. Traders and farmers have not forgotten last year’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) raids that destroyed lakhs of mangoes for using calcium carbide to hasten the ripening process. They saidContinue Reading

by Marc Nkwame, Daily News   A programme aiming to assist banana and sweet potato growers in Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia in securing reliable markets was launched here, targeting to benefit nearly 100,000 families in Tanzania alone.   The four-year initiative dubbed ‘SeFaMaCo,’ short for ‘Seed-Farmer-Markets Consumer,’ funded by BillContinue Reading

Pomelo farming in Nakhon Si Thammarat is facing a bleak future as heavy rains and inundation intensifies.   Local media reported that continuous rainfalls in the province have led to persistent inundation, causing damage to a large area of farmland and diminishing agricultural produce, particularly that of the famous TubtimContinue Reading