Construction of a Sh116 million (USD 1.15 million) banana processing plant is set to start this month, county officials announced. According to Agriculture Executive Davis Mwangoma, the factory will be built on three acres at the new market site in Taveta. The project is partially financed byContinue Reading
Indonesia will no longer impose anti-dumping duties on banana imports from the Philippines, its trade minister said Tuesday. Following bilateral trade talks in Manila with Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol, Indonesian Trade Minister Enggartiasto Lukita said the termination of the anti-dumping duties began yesterday. “As a symbolic gift toContinue Reading
A Thailand supermarket came up with a genius way to reduce plastic packaging: wrap its produce in banana leaves instead. The banana leaf packaging comes from the Rimping supermarket in Chiangmai, Thailand. A real estate company in Chiang Mai, Perfect Homes, posted photos of the banana leaf packaging toContinue Reading
In an attempt to restrict the spread of the destructive Panama disease TR4 in Australia, the Queensland government recently granted the Australian Banana Growers’ Council (ABGC) AUD$12.1 million (over USD 8 million) in funding. However, starting this July it has asked that a cost-sharing arrangement be made between itselfContinue Reading
One gauge of avocado prices is having its biggest gain in almost a decade as consumers weigh the latest rhetoric from Donald Trump on his threat to close the U.S. border with Mexico, a major supplier of the fruit. The Mexico City Hass price from Michoacan, the heartland ofContinue Reading
The North Eastern Regional Agricultural Marketing Corporation Limited (NERAMAC) on Friday organised a workshop on ‘Post GI Activities for Naga Tree Tomato and registration for Authorized Users’ in Kohima under the aegis of the ministry of development of north eastern region (DoNER). The workshop conducted with the aimContinue Reading
The highly-anticipated proceedings of the International Conference on Tropical Fruit Pests and Diseases have been officially released. If you are interested in the proceedings or any of the individual papers, contact the TFNet Secretariat at info@itfnet.org. Abstracts of the papers presented are available here: http://itfnet.org/troped2018/abstracts.php eISBN:Continue Reading
The conditions that two years ago led to a deadly multi-state salmonella outbreak due to Maradol papayas imported from Mexico remain largely unchanged. Imported papayas from Mexico remain under an import alert issued by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that permits U.S. ports of entry to detain theContinue Reading
The little green fruit that’s native to Brazil, feijoa, is one of the most vitamin C-rich foods you can eat. But just for the record, New Zealand discovered them before us. “We’re going to smash feijoas,” exclaims a male New Zealander with a thick accent and irrefutable grin. Continue Reading
Around 10 wild elephants raided a durian orchard in Chanthaburi’s Tha Mai district late on Wednesday and stayed until Thursday morning, causing around Bt 200,000 (USD 6283) of damage. The orchard in Tambon Khao Kaew belongs to couple Thanom Lampheungwong, 65, and Piyarat Lampheungwong, 61. Thanom saidContinue Reading
It’s properly unsettling when we hear about the latest mass food recalls, but so far the voluntary avocado recall by the Henry Avocado Corporation Monday is an example of a “good” type of recall: the bug listeria monocytogenes was caught through a routine government inspection, and as yet there areContinue Reading
An avocado tree-loving beetle, regarded as a serious pest overseas, has been discovered in Auckland. The wood-boring granulate ambrosia beetle has been detected in four Auckland areas since late February, according to Biosecurity New Zealand. The beetle is known to feed on a wide range of broadleafContinue Reading
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