Fruits News (Page 225)

by Akosita Talei   The papaya industry has been having problems with rot found in red papayas meant for exports.   Nadi-based agribusiness, Nature’s Way Cooperative says the disease occurs mainly during the wet season from November to April.   Research Extension Manager Kyle Stice says they’ve been exploring some optionsContinue Reading

Vietnam’s fruit exports to the U.S., South Korea, and Japan remain modest due to a lack of standardized products, plus unhealthy competition among local firms, even though many Vietnamese-grown tropical fruits have been allowed to enter these strict markets, statistics have shown.   Since 2008, the U.S., Japan, South Korea,Continue Reading

Frente Amplio (FA) lawmaker, Edgardo Araya, along with several groups representing communities that claim to have suffered from environmental and other damage due to pineapple production, have presented a draft decree that would put a moratorium on the expansion of monoculture pineapple plantations for the next five years.   ArayaContinue Reading

Territorians have reacted angrily to a national directive requiring all banana trees in every backyard and farm across much of the Top End to immediately be destroyed.   All locally grown bananas will disappear from Darwin until 2017, under a disease eradication plan to rid Australia of the recently detectedContinue Reading

by Ganesh Prabhu and Mohit M. Rao   Banana plantations in many places in the district have been affected by the pest ‘Erionota torus’, also known as Banana Red-Eyed Skipper, Banana Leaf Roller or Banana Skipper, leaving farmers in distress.   The pest is a chocolate-brown butterfly belonging to the familyContinue Reading

by Grant Butler   Avocados make wonderful additions to sandwiches and salads, and the world would be a less-happy place without guacamole. But sometimes you only need half an avocado for a recipe, and the remaining half can begin to discolor and turn an unappetizing shade of brown quickly.   ThereContinue Reading

Juices, jams, puree, dried flesh, roasted seeds, dried fruit with seed, and shell flour as an antioxidant will be new processed products from Rambutan that will be produced by farmers in the southern region of Costa Rica. As explained by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), processing will benefit aboutContinue Reading

Costa Rica should see its first China-bound pineapple shipment ‘within the next four months’, following a successful visit by Chinese authorities to the Central American country.   Three officials from China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) ended a 1.5-week visit to Costa Rica last Wednesday, havingContinue Reading

Following the breakthrough in mango exports between private sectors in 2013, Pakistani mangoes are now being sold for the first time by the largest high-street retailer in Japan, AEON Corporation – a $57-billion entity.   The development came in the form of a soft launch at the new AEON MakuhariContinue Reading

The total income of Gambia Mango out Growers has hit a staggering D2, 910, 440 in 2014, representing an increase of D221, 207.2 compared to the last year’s total income of D698, 368. This also shows an increase of the kilograms of mangoes harvested from 92, 048 kilograms last yearContinue Reading

Myanmar is planning to export four agricultural products to South Korea’s tightly controlled agriculture market this fiscal year, a senior official from the Ministry of Commerce said.   Toe Aung Myint, director general of the department of trade promotion, told Myanmar Eleven that exports of mango, dragon fruit, mangosteen, andContinue Reading