SOURCE: Anne Ewbank, Atlas Obscura California’s deadly, damaging wildfires worsen by the year. The state’s naturally dry landscapes, parched by a changing climate, have turned into tinderboxes. A stray match or lightning strike has the capacity to incinerate forests, fields, and neighborhoods. Last year saw a summer and fall ofContinue Reading
SOURCE: Xinhua/Global Times Kenya’s exports of avocados hit 72,000 tons in 2020, up from 59,000 tons recorded in the previous year, a government official said on Wednesday. “The increase in export volumes was partly due to enhanced cultivation of avocado by Kenyan farmers over the past five years,” Benjamin Tito,Continue Reading
SOURCE: Avila Geraldine, New Straits Times A team of University Malaysia Sabah (UMS) researchers has taken the initiative to teach Tamparuli villagers how to transform overripe pineapples into vinegar products through technology intervention. The team consisting food technologists and scientists from various disciplines, had last month, gone to Kampung RungusContinue Reading
NTUC FairPrice, a supermarket chain in Singapore, said Saturday it had removed all Taiwanese pineapples from its store shelves, as consumers had complained of core rot in the fruit.Continue Reading
SOURCE: Asia News Network, Phnom Penh Post Vietnam’s agricultural sector has determined to improve quality to meet import market standards and achieve the export target of $10 billion by 2030. Vietnam Vegetables Association secretary-general Dang Phuc Nguyen said new-generation free trade agreements (FTAs) such as the EU-Vietnam Free Trade AgreementContinue Reading
Russian fruit imports in January 2021 remained virtually unchanged compared to the same month in 2020, but changes in the import structure were significant.Continue Reading
SOURCE: Thailand Business News Mango orchard owners in Thailand’s northern province of Phitsanuloke are seeking help from the provincial administration to promote the sale of their sweet fruit, particularly Barracuda Mango variety. They complain that, because of the global COVID-19 pandemic, their mangoes are not being exported, due to fewerContinue Reading
SOURCE: Angulo TRANSLATION: Freshplaza Mexico produced 1,209,000 tons of pineapples in 2020, i.e. 16.2% more than in the previous year according to data from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader), positioning the country as the world’s ninth biggest producer of this fruit. This growth follows the trend inContinue Reading
Andhra Pradesh is going bananas with its banana production. The state, which is India’s largest producer of the humble fruit, is surpassing its own records, thanks to a series of initiatives both by the government and private sector in the last three years.Continue Reading
SOURCE: Lisa Marie Corso, ABC Netball, cricket and soccer are all on-field sports we love, but there’s also an off-field sport we take just as seriously: the search for the perfect avocado. We take our avocados home. We wait for them to ripen. We smear them on toast, put themContinue Reading
SOURCE: Vietnam News The Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) has granted a Geographical Indication (GI) certificate to lychees grown in Lục Ngạn District in the northern province of Bắc Giang, making it the first Vietnamese product to obtain the certificate in Japan, according to the provincial newsContinue Reading
Chinese companies are seeking to lease 3,200–4,800 hectares of land around Vientiane, the country’s capital, to establish durian plantations, with the ultimate goal of exporting the fruit back to China once official export approval has been obtained.Continue Reading