SOURCE: Searchlight Farmer, Simeon Greene has praised the Taiwan International Cooperation and Development Fund for introducing the Banana Revitalization Project just when he was on the verge of abandoning banana cultivation on his farm in Perseverance. Greene said that the location of his farm is what one would call, “aContinue Reading

SOURCE: Tim Karman, The Washington Post Avocados, the fruit known as “green gold” because of their ability to generate billions of dollars for producers, are apparently so abundant right now that South American farmers are just giving them away. A nonprofit group in Philadelphia passed out hundreds of thousands ofContinue Reading

SOURCE: Daily Sentinel SFA Gardens recently received grant support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service to investigate the potential of pineapple guava as a new, low-input fruit and ornamental crop for production in Texas. The project, funded through 2024, is a collaborative effort between SFA Gardens andContinue Reading