SOURCE: Jasper Y. Arcalas, Business Mirror The Philippines is not just losing market share in key banana markets to Latin American producers but investments as well, which could threaten the domestic output of the world’s second top producer of the prized yellow fruit, an industry group said. Pilipino Banana GrowersContinue Reading
Farming communities in Uttara Kannada and Dakshina Kannada in Karnataka are demonstrating that much more than banana bread — the flavor of the first year of lockdown — can be made with the fruit.
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SOURCE: Global Trade/Indexbox The demand for bananas remained robust amidst the pandemic. Despite record exports from Ecuador, which remains the world’s largest banana supplier, prices in the largest import markets are rising due to strong demand and local COVID-related imbalances in supply chains. Driven by the growing population, the globalContinue Reading
SOURCE: Fairtrade The Fairtrade Base Wage for banana plantations comes into effect on 1 July 2021, meaning wage increases of up to 15 percent for banana workers and a significant step towards creating a living wage for thousands of banana plantation workers worldwide. The Fairtrade Base Wage is set atContinue Reading
SOURCE: Dhaka Tribune Braving the Covid-19 pandemic, farmers are eying a bumper production of banana this year in Rangpur agriculture region where cultivation of the crop is continuously increasing. Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) officials said farmers have cultivated bananas on 4,209 hectares of land, including on 2,559 hectares duringContinue Reading
SOURCE: Jasper Y. Arcalas, Business Mirror Despite a 14.38-percent contraction in total volume, the Philippines remained as the world’s second top exporter of bananas for the third consecutive year as it shipped 3.725 million metric tons (MMT) of the prized yellow fruit last year. Trade map data of multilateral InternationalContinue Reading
SOURCE: Shaun Turton, Nikkei Asia In early June, nine women in red gowns held platters of mangoes as Cambodian and Chinese dignitaries cut a red ribbon strung between the piles of tropical fruit. Concluded with the release of balloons, the ceremony at a wholesale market in Hebei Province marked theContinue Reading
SOURCE: The Star It is becoming a trend to sell products and goods via social media platforms, especially since the country was hit by Covid-19 and came under the first movement control order on March 18, 2020. Durian traders have also jumped on the online bandwagon to market the kingContinue Reading
SOURCE: Lominda Afedraru, Monitor Tagging products with barcodes for easy price retrieval in supermarkets is a regular practice. But beyond supermarkets, barcodes can be employed across a whole spectrum of settings, including by scientists in their research. The accelerated breeding better banana project has developed and deployed a fully operationalContinue Reading
SOURCE: Rachel Chase, Alliance The Alliance-managed website MusaNet collects and shares global resources on banana (Musa) across the whole value chain – from collecting germplasm to post-harvest qualities. The Musa genus, which includes over 70 species and around 1,000 cultivars of bananas, represents a globally important source of food andContinue Reading
SOURCE: Livemint In a major boost to India’s exports of Geographical Indications (GI) certified agricultural produce, a consignment of fibre and mineral rich ‘Jalgaon Banana’ has been shipped to Dubai, United Arab Emirates. About 22 tonne of the GI certified banana was sourced from farmers of Tandalwadi village in Maharashtra’sContinue Reading
SOURCE: Selina Xu, Bloomberg Malaysian durians have topped fruit and vegetable presales at a big Chinese retail festival, showing the pulling power of the pungent delicacy. The top-selling variety at JD.com’s 618 festival — China’s second-largest shopping event after Alibaba’s Singles’ Day — was the Sultan durian from Pahang state,Continue Reading