SOURCE: Sainiani Boila, FBC News Fiji imports $17million worth of fresh fruits annually. These fruits include grapes, oranges, apples, pears and kiwi fruit together with $3.8million worth of processed fruits. These imported fruits have substituted locally grown tropical fruits such as guava, mango, avocado, mandarin and other indigenous fruits inContinue Reading
SOURCE: Susan Marais, Farmers Weekly Despite improved producer prices, pineapple farmers are feeling the pinch of rising input costs. Former Agricultural Writers South Africa’s farmer of the year Fred Visser, owner of Gwanzi Queen Pineapples near Hluhluwe in KwaZulu-Natal, told Farmer’s Weekly that the plastic covering for the plants andContinue Reading
SOURCE: Marco Campos, Produce Blue Book With an average volume of 73,000 tons, Mexico was ranked the world’s seventh largest exporter of fresh or dried pineapples during 2016-2020, with a 1.9 percent share in global sales of fruit. According to data from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, reportedContinue Reading
SOURCE: Sina TRANSLATION: Freshplaza Due to the continuous influence of the double-festival effect, the market for imported fruit transactions in October still showed a strong sales trend. According to statistics, the transaction volume of imported fruits increased by 42.24% year-on-year; the transaction volume increased by 98% year-on-year. The overall averageContinue Reading
SOURCE: AP News The Spanish Navy has started helping farmers on the volcanic island of La Palma to reach their lava-surrounded banana plantations by sea, Spain’s Defense Ministry said on Thursday. A scale 5 earthquake overnight offered a reminder that the eruption on the island of 85,000 is continuing strongContinue Reading
SOURCE: The Star The Agriculture Department has not received any report of Helicobacter “worms” attacking banana crops in Malaysia, said its director-general Datuk Zahimi Hassan. He said the viral video on the alleged discovery of Helicobacter worms in bananas contained unauthentic and dubious information. Zahimi explained that Helicobacter is aContinue Reading
SOURCE: Brooke Migdon, The Hill Chefs at restaurants across the globe are scratching avocados from their menus, replacing popular dishes like guacamole with alternative dips made from beans and seeds that have smaller carbon footprints. Avocado farming is extremely water-intensive, with 60 gallons of water required to grow just oneContinue Reading
SOURCE: Aimee Chanthadavong, ZDNet Everything from weather monitoring stations, soil moisture sensors, and RFID tags are helping Bartle Frere Bananas improve the way its bananas are grown and moved through the supply chain. “If you can trace a cow, you can track anything,” Gavin Devaney, owner and managing director ofContinue Reading
SOURCE: Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal Nextevo is putting an unconventional spin on sustainable fibers and yarns, turning to pineapples as the source of its spun fabric with the help of local farmers in Thailand and Indonesia. The material producer, established in June 2019 and headquartered in Singapore, blends ready-to-spin fibersContinue Reading
SOURCE: The Star After facing difficulties in selling vegetables and losing thousands of ringgit each day following the movement control order last year, Abdul Halim Abdullah decided to turn to Lohan guava (GU16) farming. Abdul Halim, 45, who has been cultivating vegetables such as chillies and eggplants for the pastContinue Reading
SOURCE: Edelmiro Franco V, Birmingham Times Banana producers and exporters in Latin America warn the high costs of supplies and the low international price for the fruit are negatively impacting sustainability and competitiveness in the industry. That has serious consequences, on various levels, for more than 800,000 families in theContinue Reading
SOURCE: Sylvain Andzongo, Business in Cameroon Cameroon exported 17,842 tons of banana in October 2021, up by 7.3% year on year, according to figures compiled by the Banana Association of Cameroon (Assobacam). This performance was facilitated by two of the three operators: société des Plantations du Haut Penja (PHP) andContinue Reading