SOURCE: KA Martin, The Hindu Pineapple prices are moving up with summer season demand rising in the north Indian cities. The price of the raw fruit had gone up to ₹39 and ₹41 (USD 0.51-0.54) a kg and ripe fruit fetched up to ₹44 (USD 0.58) a kg, said JohnContinue Reading
SOURCE: Jie Shuyi, Yicai Global The Philippines may soon no longer be China’s biggest banana supplier as exports to the country sank 25 percent last year from the year before amid surging production costs and lengthier transport times, giving other banana exporters the chance to seize market share. It usedContinue Reading
SOURCE: Business Insider One in four women in India don’t have the supplies they need for their period. One startup is turning farm waste into biodegradable pads that could prevent the mountains of plastic trash conventional pads create.Continue Reading
SOURCE: The Star Vietnam has completed negotiations on quarantine and is waiting for a licence on the official export of durian to China. This will help Vietnamese durian have sustainable consumption, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. China is still the largest export market of Vietnamese durian,Continue Reading
SOURCE: The Malaysia Reserve The arrival of the Harumanis mango season in May is definitely awaited by many, especially the fruit orchard operators and growers who are now busy making preparations to welcome tourists and fruit enthusiasts. With the recent announcement of the reopening of the country’s borders on AprilContinue Reading
SOURCE: Free Malaysia Today In Malaysia, the durian sits atop its throne, long-hailed as the King of Fruits. Outside the country, however, it has a less favourable reputation – if it is seen in foreign markets at all. As it turns out, not every foreigner shares a distaste for theContinue Reading
SOURCE: Mercopress Ecuadorian banana producers in the coastal provinces of Guayas, Los Rios, and El Oro, have staged road blockades demanding the government to step in and purchase the surplus resulting from Russia’s military operation in Ukraine. “We request that the President of the Republic, with the surpluses from oilContinue Reading
SOURCE: Marco Campos, Produce Blue Book Colombia exported 2,376 tons of avocados to the U.S. last year, and in 2022 plans to increase that by 30 percent. Jorge Enrique Restrepo, executive director of Corpohass, told Bloomberg Linea that with this plan, growers project exports to the U.S. to continue toContinue Reading
SOURCE: Ecuador Times The banana producers propose to the Government the creation of a contingency fund with their own financing (from the banana producers themselves), through the withholding of $0.05 per box sold to minimize the losses that may be caused by the war between Russia and Ukraine. This alternativeContinue Reading
SOURCE: Pauline Kairu, The East African Kenya has stepped up the use of the encyrtid wasp to manage the papaya mealybug, which is ranked among top pests affecting papaya and other horticultural crops. The mealybug is also a serious threat to greenhouse farms and can devastate whole crops if leftContinue Reading
Wrapping potato seeds in biodegradable paper made from unusable parts of banana plants reduces the infestation and harmful effects of a nasty plant pathogen—a worm called the potato cyst nematode—and sharply increases potato size and yields. Reported in Nature Sustainability, a recent study shows the banana paper helps disrupt signalsContinue Reading
SOURCE: Glenneis Kriel, Farmers Weekly Mangoes offer a potential turnover of R1 million/ha, but whether this is achieved depends on your production per hectare, when your crop hits the market, and supply and demand, says Bernie van den Heever, co-owner of Cape Mango in the Olifants River region in theContinue Reading