With a number of new orchards coming into production, Australia is expecting a bumper crop, with volumes up 9% from last year’s, says Avocados Australia CEO John Tyas. Based on the industry’s latest quarterly forecasting, the nation is set to produce 95,000 metric tons (MT) for the April 2019Continue Reading
On the western flank of Kilimanjaro, a dirt track leads to a once esteemed German coffee farm. The mountain’s slopes in northern Tanzania have long been renowned for quality arabica coffee beans, but here commercial coffee hasn’t been produced in a long time. Instead tens of thousands ofContinue Reading
The 2019 lychee harvest in the northern province of Bac Giang set a new all-time record for revenue at over VND 6.3 trillion (USD 270.9 million), according to the Department of Industry and Trade of Bac Giang province. The lychee cultivation hub of Bac Giang has sold approximately 150,000Continue Reading
Dozens of people across the U.S. have fallen ill with Salmonella in an outbreak linked with papaya imported from Mexico, with a third of cases occurring in New York. The fruit has caused 62 people across eight states to get sick from Salmonella Uganda, the Centers for Disease ControlContinue Reading
Just how big is the World’s Largest Pineapple Display? The display, which debuted June 28, is 20 feet by 36 feet — said vice president of produce and floral Mike Tipton. Schnucks plans to use 19,650 pineapples for the display, making it the biggest ever by a significantContinue Reading
Ecuador saw a 1.39% bump in its overall banana shipments between January and May of 2019 compared to the same period of the previous year. However, this rate of growth was much lower than that of the first five months of 2018 compared to 2017, during which there was anContinue Reading
The International Tropical Fruits Network (TFNet) would like to congratulate Qu Dongyu of China for being elected as the new Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The election was held during the 41st session of the FAO Conference on 22-29 June 2019.Continue Reading
Municipal leaders of Santo Tomás and Palmar de Varela, Colombia, have urged for an agricultural calamity be declared in the Atlantic due to the devastating and widespread effects of citrus greening, also known as Huanglongbing (HLB) which means ‘yellow dragon’ in Mandarin. The tropical fruit disease is bacterial andContinue Reading
After 6 years of cooperation, the New Zealand Plant & Food Research (PFR), the Southern Fruit Research Institute (SOFRI), and the Institute of Agricultural Electrical and Post-Harvest Technology (SIAEP) have chosen 3 promising dragon fruit varieties and proposed the related processes. At the seminar “Model of commercialization ofContinue Reading
Papaya is one of the important fruit crops of India and all other papaya-growing countries. Owing to its high yield and profitability, it has become very popular among farmers in India. In addition, it contains enzyme papain and chymopapain, both of which are widely used in the food and drug.Continue Reading
The Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) has handed over two million pineapple suckers to two farmers in the eastern region of Ghana under the second phase of its pineapple supply base expansion program. The ceremonial handing over to two of the county’s major pineapple exporters, Riverside Farms and OhuContinue Reading
The Ormoc City government staged its third Piña Festival on Sunday (June 23) to promote its main agriculture produce, pineapple. Eight contingents coming from various schools in the city took part in contests that featured pineapple-themed costumes. The STI College of Ormoc won the top prize ofContinue Reading
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