With the aim of improving the state of Michoacan’s mango production chain, the Ministry of Rural and Agricultural Food Development (Sedrua) will implement processes and training among producers to improve the market and achieve more competitive sales.   In this last season, the price paid to mango producers from MichoacanContinue Reading

Struggling African banana producers called on the European Union on Friday not to cut tariffs on imports from Latin America any further.   Exporters in Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) have been losing market share since 2009, when the EU agreed to progressively cut tariffs on bananas from biggerContinue 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

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