The Department of Agriculture is convincing fruit exporters to meet standards for their produce and packaging processes and about 500 operators have agreed to cooperate. Sermsuk Salakpetch, director-general of the department, said the Office of Agricultural Research and Development Region 6 in Chanthaburi province was speeding up its proceduresContinue Reading
Bananas and papaya, representative tropical fruits, are being cultivated on a farm on Anmyeon Island in Taean County, South Chungcheong Province. Bananas produced at the farm are sweeter than imported ones due to large daily temperature differences and abundant sunshine. In addition, the yield per tree has reached 50Continue Reading
Fruit fly larvae have been detected in Tasmania on a mango imported from Queensland. The infected fruit was found in Devonport during a routine inspection at a Biosecurity Tasmania control centre. It was imported in a shipment of more than 1,000 trays of mangoes that arrived on January 1,Continue Reading
Leading South Korean importer and exporter, Hyundai Agro, has announced the first commercial shipment of Cambodian grown mangoes will be sent from the South East Asian country this week. In an interview with Cambodian newspaper Khmer Times, managing director of Hyundai Agro, Chang-Hoon Lee, outlined what would be sent. “WeContinue Reading
In an incredible act of generosity, a Queensland man is opening his orchard, donating his bumper crop of more than 200,000 mangoes to local charities and drought-affected communities. Brian Burton never planned on becoming a mango farmer, but when he purchased Lake Barra Cottages between Gympie and Tin CanContinue Reading
Bad weather conditions here are negatively impacting the production of mangoes and causing a lot of anxiety as the summer season draws near, specially because the fruit is considered a signature product of the province. Zambales Provincial Agriculture head Russel Quitaneg said that research data showed a significant dropContinue Reading
The guava production has tremendously been affected in Larkana district, where orchards are spread over 30,000 acres of land. Sindh Chamber of Agriculture (SCA) Larkana president Sirajul Oliya, confirming a drastic reduction in guava production this season, linked the damage to climate change paired with locust and mealybug attacksContinue Reading
Chinese consumers have embraced the craze for the fruit only in recent years, but that is making life ever more difficult in one of its source countries, the programme China’s Growing Appetite finds out. It is a superfood, packed with vitamins, minerals and fibre. And in China, avocado hasContinue Reading
The Department of Internal Trade (DIT) plans to link Thailand’s central fruit markets with those of China to expand the trading channel for Thai fruits, Whichai Phochanakij, the department’s director-general, said recently. “The central markets the DIT aims to link are those being promoted by the DIT, ” heContinue Reading
The amount of damage and losses to agriculture caused by Taal Volcano continuing activity has ballooned to P3.17 billion (USD63 million), the Department of Agriculture (DA) reported over the weekend. The amount covers 15,790 hectares of agricultural lands and production losses of 43,772 metric tons (MT), according to the DA-disasterContinue Reading
Saint Lucia will be branding its bananas as a premium agricultural product as part of strategic efforts as it related to the island’s banana industry. On Monday, cabinet met with high level officials from the Ministry of Agriculture to discuss the industry. “The main focus of this meetingContinue Reading
Mansour Rajeb is wrapping a plastic protective sheet around the branch of a date palm in his oasis near the village of Bchelli, in southern Tunisia. Tying it up, he lingers. “I’m worried,” he says. “The quality is getting worse. The dates are getting drier.” Like thousands of farmers acrossContinue Reading
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