Hannington Abaasa, a resident of Kisalosalo zone in Kyebando, a suburb of Kampala says that it takes patience and endurance to survive in the business. He wakes up very early in the morning and goes to different markets in Kampala city where he usually buys pineapples. At the markets, he buys pineapples at different prices depending on the size and appearance.Continue Reading
Three years ago, Chheng Ros, a 58-year-old farmer in Kampong Cham province’s Kang Meas district, made a blunderous decision to cut down all his banana trees to make way for mango farming which was getting more expensive than bananas.Continue Reading
The Rural Development Secretariat of the National Agricultural Health, Safety, and Quality Service (Senasica) has ordered suspending the aerial fumigation to combat pests in Oaxaca’s mango productions to avoid harming other species.Continue Reading
After seven years of extensive research, the Banana Research Centre (BRC) in Jalgaon — which functions under the Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth (MPKV) — has come up with a new kind of banana variety, which has been named ‘Phule Pride.’Continue Reading
Ecuador’s most westerly point, the Santa Elena peninsula, is fast becoming a hub for the country’s organic banana production thanks to the favorable climate and an abundance of virgin land.Continue Reading
SOURCE: Vietnam + More than 14,000 tonnes of dragon fruit were exported to China from February 10-17 (the seven-day Lunar New Year holiday) through border gates in the northern province of Lao Cai, according to the provincial Border Gate Customs Sub-Department. Lao Cai authorities, including customs, border guards, and medicalContinue Reading
A long lockdown has slowed domestic demand for durians and left traders more reliant on China’s appetite for the world’s smelliest fruit.Continue Reading
Philippine banana exports last year declined by almost a fifth to a two-year low of 3.595 million metric tons (MMT) as shipments across all key markets contracted due to weak domestic production.Continue Reading
SOURCE: Himanshu Nitnaware, The Better India Magan Kamariya from Morbi village in Gujarat was a traditional vegetable farmer with a 15-acre land. On it, he would grow groundnut, cotton, cumin and other vegetables, but conventional farming failed to reap many profits. In fact, it barely helped his six-member family survive.Continue Reading
China is encouraging Thailand to adopt World Health Organization (WHO) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) guidelines, to establish confidence in exported durians and maintain a market worth 50 billion baht (USD 1.6 billion).Continue Reading
Peru exported 410,463,231 kilos of avocado in 2020, almost 100 million kilos more than the 310,870,326 kilos it exported in 2019, according to data published by Agrodata Peru.Continue Reading
The coronavirus pandemic won’t stop Mexico from sending a huge quantity of avocados to the United States in the lead-up to the Super Bowl to be played February 7 in Tampa, Florida.Continue Reading