SOURCE: Sheria Brathwaite, Barbados Today As domestic production of papaya – known here as paw-paw – continues to decline, the Ministry of Agriculture is collaborating with two partner organisations to help farmers improve their yields. For many years, farmers across the island have struggled to produce adequate quantities of sweetContinue Reading
SOURCE: Edith Mutethya, China Daily In 2018, Zhang Wensheng and his friends were vacationing in Kenya, when they realized that the country boasts weather conditions favorable for cultivating some of the fruits usually grown in China. This aroused their entrepreneurial instincts. The next year, they established a six-hectare dragon fruitContinue Reading
SOURCE: Vietnam Investment Review A ceremony to announce the news was held on September 9 by the Plant Protection Department (PPD) under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), and in collaboration with the Australian Embassy in Vietnam. Authorities from both nations have completed the final procedures for licensingContinue Reading
SOURCE: Assawin Pakkawan and Saritdet Marukatat, Bangkok Post Farmers growing “golden bananas” say business is booming, demand is growing and the price they get remains high. Somchai Nunual, leader of the golden banana and fruit safety group in Bang Kaew district in Phatthalung province, said the price tag on thisContinue Reading
SOURCE: Jasper Emmanuel Arcalas, Philstar The Philippines may lose the South Korean market for bananas if the free trade agreement (FTA) with the East Asian country is not ratified soon, as local exporters face stiffer competition against other foreign suppliers. Government officials and banana industry stakeholders were in unison thatContinue Reading
SOURCE: Produce Report Tanzania’s Ministry of Agriculture recently announced that the procedures required to allow the country’s avocados to be exported to China had been completed. According to Joseph Ndunguru, chief director of the Tanzania Plant Health and Pesticides Authority, Tanzanian growers have been officially permitted to export their freshContinue Reading
Mango season in the Northern Territory is starting to heat up, with 24,000 trays sent to markets last week. The Darwin region is forecast to produce 2.4 million trays of mangoes this year — slightly up on 2023. NT Mango Industry Association president and Darwin grower Leo Skliros is alreadyContinue Reading
SOURCE: Fresh Fruit Portal According to Hass Avocado Board’s (HAB) most recent Avocado Holiday Retail recap, second quarter holidays – Cinco de Mayo, Memorial Day, and Father’s Day – generated the highest growth rates in 2024. Dollar sales velocity during Q2 holidays increased by double digits this year. Combined, allContinue Reading
SOURCE: Jevans Nyabiage, SCMP South Africa is preparing to ship its first avocados to China and Tanzania has won a deal to export honey there as agriculture becomes a new focus of China-Africa engagement. The deals come as Beijing prepares to host the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) Summit nextContinue Reading
SOURCE: Abu Siddique, Mongabay In the last few years in mid-western Bangladesh, the trend of planting different types of fruit orchards, like mango, lychee and papaya, has gone up in three districts together commonly known as the High Barind Tract — Rajshahi, Chapai Nawabganj and Naogaon. “Transforming the land fromContinue Reading
SOURCE: Eastfruit Southeast Asia may soon become a new export market for one of Egypt’s most unexpected fruits – mangoes. This sounds unreal, given that the region is home to at least five well-known mango producers and net exporters: Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, and Indonesia, the latter being theContinue Reading
SOURCE: Su-Lin Tan, SCMP The reimposition of anti-dumping duty on canned pineapples from the Philippines has become a sticking point in Australia’s strategic trade partnership with Manila, highlighting some of the hurdles that could pose a threat to deeper Southeast Asian ties envisioned by Canberra. In 2021, Australia lifted aContinue Reading