SOURCE: Pattaya Mail The COVID-19 outbreak has caused Thai fruit exports to slow down due to the lockdown of many partner countries. The Ministry of Commerce, has therefore, sought ways to solve the problem by launching a campaign to increase domestic consumption and designating May and June “Thai Fruits GoldenContinue Reading
SOURCE: Madeleine Cuff, iNews As the brunch ingredient of choice for millennials, supermarkets face a continuous battle keeping their shelves stocked with perfectly ripe avocados. Customers demand ready to eat fruit, but avocados have a short shelf life, swinging from hard to mushy within just a few days. Suppliers, supermarketsContinue Reading
SOURCE: Astrid Van Den Broek, Freshplaza As the imported rambutan season gears up, questions remain around what demand might look like once the fruit arrives in the marketplace. Marc Holbik of Miami, Fl.-based Ecoripe Tropicals notes that the company launches its 2020 rambutan season from Guatemala in the first weekContinue Reading
A local investor has created a large-scale dragon farm community in Preah Vihear province in response to local and export demand.Continue Reading
SOURCE: Pakistan Today As the mango exports from Pakistan are expected to kick off with a delay and in apparently less quantity due to the coronavirus pandemic, the exporters have requested the officials to allow the labor from South Punjab to travel and work in mango orchards to save billionsContinue Reading
SOURCE: Laxmi Devi, Business Insider Unfazed by the COVID-19 risks, farm scientists from two Lucknow-based ICAR institutes are on the front line to control a fungal disease in banana crop especially in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar ahead of the planting season. Fusarium wilt with tropical race 4 (TR4) strain isContinue Reading
SOURCE: SA People News Alcohol consumers in South Africa are getting plastered on pineapples after the nationwide alcohol ban in lockdown sparked a craze of turning the tropical fruit into powerful home-brew. Supermarket bosses have revealed that 10 times as many pineapples are being sold at TWICE the price sinceContinue Reading
SOURCE: Shahid Shah, The International News Mango traders and growers are worried over labour shortage in orchards due to lockdown-led transport unavailability as harvesting is just around the corner, it was learnt on Monday. Mango plucking is about to start in Sindh from next week and unavailability of workers raisesContinue Reading
With over 50 years of productive research contribution in Malaysia, MARDI is a leading agricultural research agency that has been mandated to conduct research and development in agriculture, food, and agro-based industries. Continue Reading
The Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI) recently joined TFNet as an Associate Member.Continue Reading
SOURCE: Bruna Garcia Fonseca, ANBA Virtually no fruit is being flown off from Brazil right now. Since volumes are not enough to fill up a cargo plane, most of the product used to ship in the cargo compartment in regular flights, which are grounded amid the worldwide quarantine. Some 10%Continue Reading
SOURCE: LA Times The coronavirus outbreak has transformed the way the world eats. There is no trend, exactly, other than this: People want comfort. They also want to eat their way to stronger immune systems. They’re stress baking, but they’re also eating healthier foods than they would have at restaurants.Continue Reading