SOURCE: Kellie Hollingworth, ABC The number of avocados grown in Sunraysia and the Riverland next season is expected to double and may even be so high the harvest will fill 1 million trays. The forecast boost is due to favourable weather conditions and some young plantings coming into production. AvocadosContinue Reading

SOURCE: Brian Badzmierowski, Khmer Times Cambodian mangoes produced at a small group of approved packaging factories have been cleared for export to China. It’s a result of recent improvements to the factories that allowed the fruit to pass China’s phytosanitary requirements. The General Administration of Customs of China (GACC) officiallyContinue Reading

SOURCE: East Fruit The global market for bananas, one of the most popular fruit on the planet, has experienced a number of shocks: information is spreading in many countries’ media about imminent complete disappearance of bananas, and their prices are high everywhere, according to EastFruit. According to EastFruit price monitoringContinue Reading

Thai Trade Center Seoul collaborates with Hyundai Department Store jointly organize Thai Fruit Promotion so called “Taste of Thailand 2021” and launch new variety of Mango from Thailand, the Mahachanok Mango, a high-end mango variety with rainbow-colored depending on maturity, to Korean consumers for the first time.Continue Reading

SOURCE: Shang-Su Wu, Nanyang Technological University/East Asia Forum Security concerns related to Taiwan’s economic dependence on China have surfaced from time to time since engagement across the Taiwan Strait deepened from the early 1990s. Former Taiwanese president Lee Ting-Hui launched the Southbound Policy in the mid-1990s to diversify economic partnersContinue Reading

SOURCE: Zhao Yimeng, China Daily Academy based in Hainan province aims to help lift people out of poverty China plans to help countries in the Lancang-Mekong region tap their banana-growing potential, the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences said. Academy vice-president Xie Jianghui said the banana industry has played aContinue Reading

SOURCE: Stephan Kueffner, Bloomberg Ecuador, the world’s biggest banana exporter, is on high alert for its vital crop as neighboring Peru grapples with an outbreak of a fungus deadly to the tropical fruit. “We’ve reinforced practically everything,” Agriculture Minister Xavier Lazo said in an interview, after confirming with Peru’s governmentContinue Reading