SOURCE: PTI, Deccan Herald With the easing of lockdown curbs, banana growers from Ardhapur tehsil in Maharashtra’s Nanded district have started getting demands for export of the fruit to Gulf countries, helping them fetch a better price for their produce. The state agriculture department is also guiding farmers from theContinue Reading
SOURCE: Dhaka Tribune The farmers said wholesalers and their representatives from different parts of the country flock to the upazila every year when the harvesting season begins. Despite bumper production, jackfruit growers in Sreepur upazila of Gazipur are incurring losses due to a lack of customers and falling prices broughtContinue Reading
SOURCE: Ramesh Kumar Poudel, The Kathmandu Post Banana farmers in Chitwan are switching to G9 banana because the Malbhog variety, which has been providing them a good income, is being increasingly plagued by disease. But fruit growers have not been able to completely give up the yellow Malbhog banana. AlthoughContinue Reading
SOURCE: ANI/DevDiscourse Individuals who consume more vegetables, fruits, nuts, and pluses score higher on tests of verbal fluency, suggests a recent study. The study investigated factors associated with verbal fluency among a large sample of English-speaking Canadians aged 45 to 85. “These findings are consistent with other research that hasContinue Reading
SOURCE: IPP Media Through the ambitious project, beneficiary farmers are trained to embrace best agronomic practices, including soil fertility, ways of conserving soil moisture and to mitigate common banana pests and diseases. Other practices are creation of basins for harvesting water, banana weevils trapping and pairing of planting suckers. ThroughContinue Reading
SOURCE: CGTN Shabei Town in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region enjoys natural advantage of sunshine and rainfall – favorable for fruits. Though the humid town is endowed with abundant natural resources, the local government had difficulties finding a suitable crop to plant to help poor families before 2015. AfterContinue Reading
Cambodia previously obtained permission to export fresh bananas to China, and now the country is allowed to export fresh mangoes as well.Continue Reading
China’s huge appetite for Thai durians remained strong and undiminished by the COVID-19 pandemic as evidenced by the country importing RM2.56 billion (USD600 million) worth of durians from Thailand in the first four months of this year.Continue Reading
SOURCE: HortiPower Bananas are the most consumed fruit across the world and make up about 75% of the annual tropical fruit trade. With a growing population worldwide the demand for bananas is ever increasing. As a result tissue culture labs that specialize in banana are increasing their production. In thisContinue Reading
Banana production in Turkey could reach a sufficient level to meet the entire domestic demand by 2023, according to the country’s leading banana growers.Continue Reading
Jeju Island was long considered the only warm-enough region in Korea for commercial banana farming, but climate change is now turning the mainland into a producer of the tropical fruit.Continue Reading
Hundreds of lychee farmers sorted and graded huge piles of the tropical fruit at a busy wholesale market in northern Vietnam yesterday, but many bemoaned slumping prices as foreign traders were held up in quarantine.Continue Reading