SOURCE: Kevin Rotich, CapitalFM Kenya is looking for avocado markets in Malaysia as it finalizes import requirements in the Asian country. Kenya’s High Commissioner to Malaysia, Francis Muhoro, wrote a letter to the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate (KEPHIS) to finalize import requirements for commodities. Malaysia offers an untapped market forContinue Reading

SOURCE: Tina Caputo, The Packer California farmers first planted avocados in 1856, lagging behind Florida, yet the Golden State now accounts for about 90% of production in the U.S. Among the hundreds of avocado varieties in existence, California farmers grow seven commercially, with the native hass making up about 95%Continue Reading

SOURCE: Mia Nulimaimaiti, SCMP China is gearing up for the harvest of its first domestic durian crop this summer after more than four years of cultivation, although it is not expected to challenge Southeast Asia’s stranglehold on sales of the pungent smelling fruit. About 2.45 million kilograms of durian producedContinue Reading

SOURCE: Business Mirror Guatemala is the largest economy in Central America and is an upper-middle country based on its GDP per capita of $4,603 in 2020, according to the World Bank. The Washington-based multilateral lending institution characterized its economy as having “the least volatile growth among its structural and aspirationalContinue Reading

SOURCE: Sarah Ilyas, Fresh Fruit Portal Mango harvest in Mexico runs from January until early October. It starts in the southern states of Chiapas and Oaxaca, moves north along the west coast through Guerrero, Michoacan, Jalisco, Nayarit, and ends in Sinaloa. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports 65% of U.S.Continue Reading

SOURCE: Thi Ha, VN Express Vietnamese dragon fruit is at risk of oversupply, while durian prices will likely plummet as China, the local fruits’ largest importer, continues growing an increasing amount of the two trees. Late last month, China announced its dragon fruit output had reached 1.6 million tons aContinue Reading