SOURCE: Agencia Denoticias TRANSLATION: Freshplaza The results of the research carried out by Ruby Alejandra Loaiza Ruiz, a student of the Master in Agricultural Sciences of the Universidad Nacional in Medellin, have become an important step to obtaining the UN Cotové papaya variety. Loaiza Ruiz picked up the work carriedContinue Reading
SOURCE: The Hindu The National Research Centre for Banana (NRCB), which steps into its 30th year, will introduce two new Grand Naine banana varieties during the course of the year, according to its Director S. Uma. The center would release the two varieties that are resistant to wilt and viralContinue Reading
SOURCE: Antonio L. Colina IV, MindaNews Davao City-based Avante Agri Products Philippines Inc. agricultural company will export two 40-footer container vans of pineapples and papayas to Singapore next week. This came after the company signed a memorandum of agreement with Singaporean buyers during a business mission to Singapore from AugustContinue Reading
SOURCE: Freshplaza The lockdown in Shanghai is over and the sales of import pineapples have resumed, but market conditions are chaotic. The sales figures are not as good as traders anticipated. One seller of Philippine pineapples in Jiaxing Wholesale Market recently talked about current conditions in the market. “Sales ofContinue Reading
SOURCE: Associates Times At a Sitting of the House of Assembly, the Minister for Agriculture stated that the fortunes of Saint Lucia’s banana industry were changing for the better. “I am happy to report that we have recommenced the shipment of bananas to the UK for the past nine weeks.Continue Reading
SOURCE: Ghada Abdel-Kader, Ahram Online Ahram Online spoke to experts and traders in Souk El-Obour – one of the largest and most famous fruit markets in Cairo – about the sweet and flavourful fruit that is synonymous with Egypt in the summer. Mohamed Ali Pasha – who ruled the countryContinue Reading
SOURCE: People’s Daily Online TRANSLATION: Freshplaza The Cambodian Banana Association Alliance held a symposium for member companies in Phnom Penh on August 6. More than 50 representatives from alliance member companies and guests from all sectors attended the event. Chen Qisheng, Vice President of Cambodia Chinese Chamber of Commerce andContinue Reading
SOURCE: Adeola Tukuru, Blueprint Nigeria Pineapple business is a lucrative business in Nigeria either by packaging and reselling them. Apart from its nutritional benefit and availability in the market, it is very easy to set up depending on location and how one wants to operate it. For its smallness, sellersContinue Reading
SOURCE: Kim Honan, ABC Rural The last remaining commercial guava farmer in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales is preparing to rip out two-thirds of the orchard’s 3,000 trees. It follows one of Australia’s largest growers bulldozing his orchard on the Alstonville plateau earlier this year to convert toContinue Reading
SOURCE: Matt Brann, ABC Rural The Northern Territory government has confirmed multiple outbreaks of the fungal disease known as banana freckle. After initially being found on a single property near Rum Jungle in May, the government today identified 12 new sites of infection at Fly Creek, Batchelor, Marrakai and theContinue Reading
SOURCE: Doris Gomora, Business Insider Mexico is the world’s top producer of avocados, a $3 billion-a-year industry that has earned the fruit the nickname oro verde, or “green gold.” But that moniker has taken on a new irony for everyday Mexicans, who have watched prices increase sharply amid the convergingContinue Reading
SOURCE: Nation Thailand Chonlatee Numnoo, director of the Agricultural Research and Development Office’s Region 6, wrote in a Facebook post that although as many as 140,000 tonnes of mangosteen fruit have been exported this year, the prices are not as attractive as those of durians. “So, it is not surprisingContinue Reading