SOURCE: Melanie Groves and Charlie McKillop, ABC Rural Australia’s avocado growers are urging brunch lovers to keep up their smashed avo habit at home after a dramatic crash in the market set off by the coronavirus shutdown of cafes and restaurants. The food-service industry is a massive market for avocadoContinue Reading
SOURCE: Ann Macharia, Daily Nation Carol, a farmer in Kiambu County, sent me some photos from her passion fruit plantation the other day, asking me to help her diagnose the problem and offer solution. From the pictures, I could tell she had done good management practices like training, weed controlContinue Reading
SOURCE: Vietnam News Vietnamese enterprises shipped around 500 tonnes of goods, including coffee, instant noodles, sweet potato, cabbage, pineapple, watermelon, and dragon fruit, to Singapore in March, according to the Vietnamese Trade Office in Singapore. The encouraging performance amid the COVID-19 pandemic was mainly thanks to the office’s efforts inContinue Reading
SOURCE: New Indian Express Several bundles of banana leaves are decomposing in markets these days. Due to the lockdown, two major buyers — restaurants and catering services — are staying away from procuring it. This has pushed the cultivators to the verge of heavy loss. “We have invested severalContinue Reading
Source: K Shiva Kumar, New Indian Express Harvesting banana, taking it to Kerala market may attract Rs 20,000 (USD 263) fine! As the Mysuru and Chamrajnagar districts have Nendram banana variety in hundreds of acres ready for harvest they have no takers and even laborers to harvest the stocks. WithContinue Reading
SOURCE: Edward Rajendra, The Star Durian traders in Klang have seen sales of the “king of fruits” plunge, and have now switched to selling eggs during the movement control order (MCO) period. In Berkeley Garden, durian trader Ang Lai Huat said that it is difficult to get durians from hisContinue Reading
SOURCE: Tom Karst, AgWeb Dominated by Mexican fruit, total U.S. imports of avocados rose 6.4% in 2019 to more than 1.1 million metric tons. U.S. Department of Agriculture statistics show that total imports of 1.11 million metric tons of avocados rated 6.4% above 2018 imports of 1.04 million metric tonsContinue Reading
SOURCE: Noticias de Almeria TRANSLATION: Freshplaza Scientists from the AGR-200 Research Group of the University of Almería, working in partnership with the nursery Vitalplant, have carried out a project on the “Influence of early sexing and papaya plant size on the production and quality of fruits grown in greenhouses inContinue Reading
SOURCE: Christine Armario and Marcos Pin Mendez For years, Dionisio Romero has relied for his livelihood on a magenta-colored dragon fruit that is wildly popular in Asia, planting dozens of the spindly trees at his farm near Ecuador’s Pacific coast. But as the coronavirus wreaks economic havoc worldwide, the 72-year-oldContinue Reading
SOURCE: Nadim Diab, CGTN When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. But what if life hands you dragon fruit – and lots of it – instead? It’s a question that Vietnamese businesses have been pondering for weeks now, and they seem to have found the answer. Pink foods have takenContinue Reading
SOURCE: Dawn Locusts have entered Kohat from the neighbouring Orakzai tribal district, attacking wheat crop and guava orchards in Mian Garhi, Mitha Khan and Muhammadzai areas. Director agriculture Zahirullah Khattak confirmed that locusts had entered Kohat, but said teams would leave for the affected areas early on Wednesday to carryContinue Reading
From lab-grown “seafood” to dumplings made with tropical fruit instead of pork, rising demand for sustainable meat alternatives in Asia is spawning creative products to appeal to local palates.Continue Reading