SOURCE: Diario Sur TRANSLATION: Freshplaza The Agrarian Transformation Society (SAT) Trops and Vodafone have launched a pilot project to provide mango harvesting machines with artificial intelligence so they can decide in real-time if the fruit is ready to be harvested based on the fruit’s size, appearance, and point of maturity.Continue Reading
SOURCE: The Hindu Kerala’s famed ‘Nendran’ bananas are all set to be shipped to London in March next year. The trial export to London is in accordance with the sea-shipment protocol of the Vegetable and Fruit Promotion Council, Keralam (VFPCK), a company established to bring about overall development of theContinue Reading
Source: International Center for Tropical Agriculture, phys.org The banana has its earliest origins in Papua New Guinea, where it was domesticated by indigenous communities at least 7,000 years ago. This ancestor, Musa acuminata, subspecies Banksii, looks very different from the ubiquitous Cavendish banana: peeling back its skin reveals hundreds ofContinue Reading
SOURCE: Tim Dornin, The Canberra Times Mangoes sent to South Australia from a Northern Territory supplier are being withdrawn from supermarket shelves and fumigated or destroyed after the discovery of Jarvis fruit fly maggots. All fruit sent from the particular grower to SA since October 5, including some still inContinue Reading
SOURCE: Courtney Fowler, ABC Mango growers in Kununurra are facing one of their most challenging mango harvests yet, off the back of a decade of dwindling yields out of Western Australia’s Ord Irrigation Scheme. At its peak, WA’s largest mango-growing region produced well in excess of half a million trays.Continue Reading
Source: Thou Vireak, The Phnom Penh Post Cambodia exported more than 235,171 tonnes of fresh yellow bananas to international markets in the first nine months of this year, up more than 225.69 per cent year-on-year, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sakhon said. Ngin Chhay, the director-general of theContinue Reading
SOURCE: BW Businessworld Vietnamese Ambassador to India Pham Sanh Chau has urged the Indian government to create favourable conditions, remove tariff and non-tariff barriers, and simplify administrative procedures in order to facilitate the two countries’ access to each other’s markets. During a virtual seminar, “Fruits and food: New trade opportunitiesContinue Reading
SOURCE: The New Indian Express The area under banana cultivation in the district has increased after almost five years. Cultivation has crossed last year’s area and horticulture department officials said an additional thousand hectares were likely to come under cultivation by the end of November. Once cultivated in about 10,000Continue Reading
SOURCE: Aaron Bunch, The Canberra Times A second group of mango pickers is expected to touch down in the Northern Territory after flying from Vanuatu to help with the Top End harvest. Coronavirus health restrictions and closed borders stopped many seasonal workers travelling to the NT, leaving growers desperately shortContinue Reading
SOURCE: Madelaine B. Miraflor, Manila Bulletin Pineapple and watermelon are currently the most profitable fruit commodities in the Philippines with growers posting record high return of investments (ROI) of 377 percent and 220 percent, respectively among other fruit growers in 2019. This is based on the Philippine Statistics Authority’s (PSA)Continue Reading
SOURCE: Tom Karst, The Packer Bananas remain America’s favorite fruit, but growth is slow at the top. U.S. banana imports from August 2019 to July were 5.12 million metric tons, up less than 1% compared with the previous year. By value, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports banana imports totaledContinue Reading
SOURCE: The Philippine Star The country’s largest business group, the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), is calling on the government to diversify the local banana industry in order to keep up with an increasingly competitive global market. In a webinar organized by the Stratbase ADR Institute on Wednesday,Continue Reading