Ecuador welcomed the lifting of a Russian ban on banana imports from the South American nation amid a spat over a weapons deal benefiting Ukraine. Authorities in Moscow had cited the detection of pests as the reason for suspending imports of bananas and flowers from Ecuador 10 days ago. ButContinue Reading
SOURCE: Michael Le Page, New Scientist Regulators in Australia and New Zealand have given the green light for farmers to grow a genetically modified banana resistant to a devastating fungal disease spreading worldwide. A genetically modified banana has been approved for growing on farms for the first time. Regulators inContinue Reading
SOURCE: East Fruit Morocco restored its banana imports in 2023 after a significant slump in the previous year, reports EastFruit. By August 2023, Morocco has already imported more bananas than in the whole of 2022, when the global trade of this product faced a severe crisis due to natural disasters,Continue Reading
SOURCE: Africa News As the fashion industry worldwide increasingly embraces more eco-friendly material, an innovative project in Kenya is turning leftover pineapple leaves into footwear. “In the past we would burn or throw away or replant pineapple suckers,” said pineapple farmer, James Kinuthia. “Later on we met with this companyContinue Reading
SOURCE: Krishak Jagat Madhya Pradesh is gaining visibility in the global agri-export market. It is exporting 30 thousand metric tons of bananas annually from the Burhanpur district alone to Iraq, Iran, Dubai, Bahrain, and Turkey. The fame of Banana of Burhanpur has gone far and wide. Thanks to the bananaContinue Reading
SOURCE: Safaa Kasraoui, Morocco World News Morocco continues to export a significant number of avocado products despite appeals and pledges to rationalize water use amid drought, according to new data compiled and reported by the Agriculture-focused website FreshPlaza. In a report published earlier today, the website revealed that Morocco exportedContinue Reading
SOURCE: CRISTIAN ACOSTA ARGOTE, La Republica TRANSLATION: Freshplaza The Super Bowl, the most important sporting event in the United States, will be held on February 11, and Hass avocados play a prominent role in this event. The Corporation of Producers and Exporters of Hass Avocado of Colombia (Corpohass) estimates thatContinue Reading
SOURCE: HAZELEN LIANA KAMARUDIN, Sinar Daily The father of seven children in Kampung Lepah, Selising, Pasir Puteh, never expected that his papaya cultivation hobby would yield a substantial income, reaching up to RM20,000 per month. Mohamed Omar, 66, stated he started planting Callina papayas, around 30 trees, in 2019 duringContinue Reading
SOURCE: Xinhua The pineapple industry in Cote d’Ivoire experienced a difficult year in 2023, according to an annual report published Thursday by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). According to the report, the country’s exports of pineapples to the international market reached only 23,557 tonnes, representingContinue Reading
SOURCE: Vietnamnet VN is about to sign a protocol for avocado and passion fruit exports with the General Administration of Customs of China, bringing the total agricultural products exported to the Chinese market in this form to 8. Vietnam has currently 13 types of fruits and agricultural products that haveContinue Reading
SOURCE: Nation Thailand Thai durian exports to China surged 81.7% to a record 90 billion baht in 2023, according to the Department of Foreign Trade. Shipments to China accounted for 70% of Thailand’s total durian exports last year. The department said the surge was driven by durian’s growing popularity inContinue Reading
SOURCE: The Star The Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang, Vietnam’s largest fruit producer, has 80 dragon fruit growing area codes that span more than 6,140 ha for export to markets that include Japan, the United States, South Korea and Australia. These are mainly in the districts of Cho Gao,Continue Reading