SOURCE: John Hey, Fruitnet Chile most of Korea’s fresh fruit import categories saw a decline in volumes during 2020 amid the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, avocados bucked the trend, increasing by 61 per cent year-on-year to top 13,000 tonnes. The rapid growth has continued in 2021, fuelled by aContinue Reading
SOURCE: Ida Lim, Malay Mail Coconut was what Malaysians ate the most in terms of weight in 2020 out of 14 fruits included in an official study, with the second being durians. In the Department of Statistics Malaysia’s (DOSM) report released today, the per capita consumption or the yearly individualContinue Reading
SOURCE: Samantha Dick and Matt Brann, ABC More than 160 seasonal workers from Vanuatu have landed in Darwin to bolster the Northern Territory’s mango-picking workforce for this year’s harvest. The workers arrived on a chartered flight from Port Vila on Tuesday and will spend the next 14 days at HowardContinue Reading
SOURCE: Mintu Deshwara, The Daily Star Farmers are enjoying tremendous success cultivating papaya in fallow lands in Sreemangal upazila of Moulvibazar district, thanks to bumper yield and a reasonable market price. Favourable weather conditions and the availability of cheap fertilisers led to a huge harvest this season, according to theContinue Reading
SOURCE: ncw365.com TRANSLATION: Freshplaza Conditions in Chinese banana production areas have not been great in the last few weeks. The production volume is growing as more and more bananas ripen, but the product quality is uneven. The speed of market supply is currently quite low. In some production areas thereContinue Reading
SOURCE: Tom Joyce, Fruitnet Evert Wulfrank, CEO of Belgium-based Durabilis, describes Ethiopia as a country full of opportunities. Back in 2011/12, he says, while seeking an additional source for snowpeas and sugarsnap peas to complement the company’s supplies from Guatemala and Peru, Ethiopia emerged as the best candidate. “It wasContinue Reading
SOURCE: Hu Meidong and Zheng Caixiong, China Daily Tseng Chun-yi has been busy discussing with technicians in Yongjing county of Gansu province how to pick dragon fruit, tend trees and manage orchards via remote video systems. “Now it is harvest time for dragon fruit and we are busy guiding theContinue Reading
SOURCE: Gro-Intelligence California’s avocado harvest is drawing to a close, and prices for Mexican avocado imports, which represent the bulk of supply in the US, are skyrocketing. Just since July 1, prices have doubled for the larger, 48-count Mexican avocados to $62.25 per case, which is 10% above the five-yearContinue Reading
SOURCE: Charissa Luci-Atienza, Manila Bulletin The Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development (DOST-PCAARRD) officially kicked off the implementation of the Niche Centers in the Regions for R&D (NICER) for Queen Pineapple through the Accelerated R&D Program for Capacity Building of ResearchContinue Reading
SOURCE: Surekha Kadapa-Bose, The Better India “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet!” Thus wrote William Shakespeare in his immortal play Romeo and Juliet. What the bard didn’t know is that the farmers of Konkan belt — Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg,Continue Reading
SOURCE: John Elicott, Mandurah Mail It seems Kiwi shoppers are a lot more food smart going into a lockdown than their Tasman Sea cousins. As New Zealand went into lockdown on Tuesday after a COVID positive case was detected, it wasn’t toilet paper that shoppers were rushing for in theContinue Reading
SOURCE: Daily Times For the first time, Pakistan Customs has processed a consignment of export of fresh mangoes (White Chaunsa) from Pakistan to Russia under the Convention on Transports Internationaux Routiers (TIR), or International Road Transports. According to a press statement issued by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) onContinue Reading