Climate change has been relatively kind to banana suppliers so far – but in the decades to come, friend may turn to foe. Temperatures are likely to get so hot that the annual production gains enjoyed by banana suppliers will begin to drop. And in some places, total banana yieldsContinue Reading
Turkey’s leading aid provider, the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA), is lending a hand to Guineans in improving their production of pineapples, a main source of income for farmers in the West African nation. In rural areas of Kindia, the country’s fourth-largest city, the agency has cleared 100Continue Reading
Fruit sellers have complained about the lack of mangoes on the market due to declining production in the last few years. Mangoes are one of the rare fruits, mostly due to local trees that have been affected by ‘strange’ diseases, with only a few professional farmers managing to control them. Continue Reading
Taronga’s Western Plains Zoo is trucking in pineapple plants from a farm 900 kilometres away to help feed its elephants as the drought bites hard in New South Wales. The Dubbo-based attraction sourced the nutritious spiky plants from south-east Queensland’s Piñata Farms, which has been supplying them to itsContinue Reading
The first batch of late-ripening longan of Hanoi’s Hoai Duc district is scheduled to reach Melbourne city, Australia, on September 6, the municipal Department of Agriculture and Rural Development said. Longan is the fourth type of fruit, together with litchi, mango and dragon fruits, licensed to be imported intoContinue Reading
Climate change may lead to a significant decline in banana production in India, the world’s largest cultivator and consumer of the crop, according to a study. Bananas are recognized as the most important fruit crop, providing food, nutrition and income for millions in both rural and urban areas acrossContinue Reading
US lawmakers are urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to rethink its position on the use of two medically important antibiotics to treat a disease affecting citrus production. In a letter to EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, JD, MBA, yesterday, Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) saidContinue Reading
Monsoon is the time when floating guava markets on canals crisscrossing thousands of guava orchards, in Jhalakathi’s Bhimruli and Pirojpur’s Atghar Kuriana under Nesarabad upazila, become alive with visitors from all over the country. A network of canals connects the guava orchards spread out across 30 villages where oneContinue Reading
A Cebuano research intern in the Institute of Biological Chemistry at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan is taking bioplastic a notch higher. Denxybel Montinola, 23, a graduate of Bachelor in Science in Applied Physics of the University of San Carlos (USC) is showcasing his bioplastic derived from mango peelsContinue Reading
The Australian Department of Agriculture and Water Resources has recently announced the conditions for importing fresh longan from Vietnam to Australia, according to the Vietnam Trade Office in Australia. This means that Vietnamese longan has been allowed to export to Australia, becoming the fourth fruit allowed to exportContinue Reading
Vietnam exported USD 144.2 million worth of fruits and vegetables to China in July, down 44.2 percent year-on-year. This was the strongest decline among Vietnam’s top 10 export markets for fruits and vegetables, with China the biggest market. In the first seven months of the year, Vietnam exported USDContinue Reading
Mozambique and Indonesia signed a new preferential trade agreement (PTA) to lower their tariff barriers, the Indonesian Ministry of Trade announced. They want to boost their trade relations by reducing tariffs on many products traded between the two economies. For example, Mozambique is expected to lower import tariffs onContinue Reading
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