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
Durian, which used to be a normal meal of the people, just like rambutans and mangosteens, is now beyond the reach of the common man. It has been promoted as the king of fruits not so much because of its taste or medicinal value, but more because its price isContinue Reading
SOURCE: Freshplaza Empaque Don Jorge I (EDJI) opened this past weekend, ready for the northern regions. EDJI is the hometown packhouse of El Grupo Crespo, Latin America’s largest hydro-thermal packhouse and the home to El Grupo Crespo’s two brands, Crespo Organic and RCF. Originally built by Roberto Crespo Fitch inContinue Reading
SOURCE: Leilanie Adriano, Philippine News Agency Commercial dragon fruit farming continues to attract growers all over the Philippines as countries like China and Spain manifested their interest to have a slice of this delicious cactus fruit species known for its therapeutic properties as it grows well in a tropical climate.Continue Reading