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
Jaldhupi, a variety of pineapple, cultivated on 20 acres of unused land in Sylhet’s Golapganj upazila by two local families has become very lucrative for them.Continue Reading
An Indigenous fruit which is one of the earliest known plant foods eaten in Australia could be the next big thing in the bush foods industry.Continue Reading
The export of Pakistani mangoes is in jeopardy due to coronavirus pandemic coupled with devastating impact of climatic change on agriculture in the country.Continue Reading
California avocados gained access to the Chinese market as a result of the China-U.S. phase-one economic and trade agreement, according to a report published on Agweb, a leading agriculture news website in the United States.Continue Reading