Vietnam is seeking to export avocados to the United States, the Southeast Asian country said on Thursday, after U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to shut the U.S.-Mexico border raised fears American consumers could see a shortage. Avocado prices in the United States jumped by nearly 50% in April onContinue Reading
Central Queensland University (CQUniversity), Australia, has built the world’s first mango auto-harvester, with the first prototype achieving 75% efficiency in automatically identifying and picking fruit in view during its first field trials at Yepoon. According to the university, the prototype harvester takes approximately five seconds to harvest a fruit,Continue Reading
Claimed as a world’s first, CQUniversity Professor Kerry Walsh has revealed details of its mango auto-harvester at this week’s Australian Mango Industry Association conference in Darwin. CQUniversity has been conducting field trials of the first prototype of its mango sensor and auto-harvest technologies at Yeppoon in Central Queensland. TheContinue Reading
Cameroon exported a total of 13,381 tons of banana in April this year, the lowest volume since the year began, the fruit’s association (Assobacam) said. In detail and compared to the same period last year, PHP, local subsidiary of French Compagnie fruitière de Marseille and market leader, shipped 12,427Continue Reading
China has overtaken Japan as the biggest foreign market of Philippine bananas, buying more than 1.1 million metric tons in 2018, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said on Tuesday. In an interview with Xinhua, PSA Assistant Secretary and Officer-in-Charge Josie Perez said China has bought a total of 1.165Continue Reading
Ecuadorian banana exports to Brazil were suspended by a judicial decision in February 26, 2019, after Brazil opened its market to these exports in December 2017. Yesterday, Wednesday, May 8, Ecuador demanded the World Trade Organization, WTO, withdraw the restriction measures imposed by Brazil on Ecuadorian bananas, allegingContinue Reading
Bananas from southeastern Mexico will soon be on their way to Chinese consumers after the signing of a bilateral agreement. A process that began with the previous federal government concluded with the signing of a phytosanitary protocol by Agriculture and Rural Development Secretary Víctor Villalobos Arámbula and Chinese officialContinue Reading
Irresponsible pineapple farmers, conducting open burning in the Vista Perdana and Desa Bahagia areas, have been identified as the culprits behind the haze problem plaguing southern Sarawak. Assistant Tourism, Arts and Culture Minister Datuk Lee Kim Shin said the farmers had apparently ignored the dry weather notices issuedContinue Reading
District administration in Rajshahi yesterday scheduled the date for beginning mango harvest on May 15, although growers in orchards say mangoes would not ripe until at least the end of the month. Mango growers can harvest Guti variety of mangoes from May 15 and other varieties successively. Continue Reading
A temporary halt to US citrus imports is not expected to affect retail fruit supplies, the Ministry for Primary Industries says. Imports were halted by Biosecurity New Zealand after fruit fly larvae were found in a single orange during a routine inspection of a consignment from California on AprilContinue Reading
Cambodia yesterday began the process of sending its first shipment of bananas to the Chinese market, after five local companies were greenlighted by the Chinese government last month. During a ceremony attended by Agriculture Minister Veng Sakhon, 100 tonnes of bananas were stored at a warehouse in Phnom Penh,Continue Reading
The state Ministry Of Agriculture, Native Land And Regional Development is focusing on durian, pineapple, banana and coconut as the chosen fruit crops to help meet Sarawak’s goal of becoming a net food exporter by 2030, Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah said today. The minister said the state government willContinue Reading
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