If you’re a lover of guacamole, chocolate avocado shakes or smashed avocado on toast, get ready to pay more for your fix of the green fruit. Avocado prices have risen to a record due to surging global demand and reduced harvests from major producers Mexico, Peru and California. Continue Reading
As we head into the summer season, watermelon supply and consumption are both expected to be strong for 2017. “We’re now seven weeks into the domestic season with plenty of imports still coming in from Mexico and less so from our Central American partners in Guatemala, Honduras, Costa RicaContinue Reading
The Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP) held its Thirty Second Technical Committee Meeting (TC-32) at Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD) in Comilla, Bangladesh on 3rd May 2017.Continue Reading
“Due to more rainfall this year in Thailand, the ripening of durian has been delayed for one month, but the yields of durian are expected to increase. Last year, due to the drought in east Thailand, the output decreased by 20% to 30%. However, the trees had good rest andContinue Reading
TEMPO.CO, Bandung – Indonesia and Thailand is working together to develop postharvest technology for fruits. “Thai’s fruits are widely known in the world. They have a postharvest technology that makes fruits remain fresh long while being shipped,” Deputy of Agro Industry and Biotechnology at Agency for the Assessment and Application of TechnologyContinue Reading
KUCHING, April 17 — The Sarawak government has set up a new company with a seed fund of RM100 million in its bid to increase the state’s tropical fruit production for the export market. Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas today said Sarawak Agriculture Products ExportContinue Reading
TFNet recently held a networking meeting with Landskap Malaysia and its sister organization, Tropical Rainforest Conservation and Research Center (TRCRC) at its headquarters in Taman Tun Dr. Ismail, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Representatives from Landskap Malaysia and TRCRC were Mr. Mohamed Shah Redza Hussein (General Manager of Landskap MalaysiaContinue Reading
Dr. Desa Hassim, TFNet CEO, was invited by the Malaysian Ministry of Finance on 10-12 April 2017 as a speaker during the 2018 Budget Discourse held in Putrajaya. TFNet actively participated in the discourse that took place through a series of high-level meetings and focus group discussion. A finalContinue Reading
A Chilean public-private delegation recently held talks with South Korean authorities in a bid to speed up market access arrangements for the South American country’s avocados. The meeting took place during the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM) in Incheon, South Korea on April 6. RepresentativesContinue Reading
The drought indirectly affected the avocado yield this season, and volumes will be lower than usual this year, reports the Letaba Herald. “In a sequence of dry years, such as the drought we had, pollinators become limited because food sources are sparse,” said Elsje Joubert, acting technical manager fromContinue Reading
Super Bowl Sunday is a football game and thousands of tons of God’s gift to western civilization, guacamole, AKA mashed ripe avocado, lemon juice, crushed garlic, diced tomatoes and a touch of hot jalapeño chiles — maybe America’s favorite snack. That’s “thousands of tons” of avocados from MexicoContinue Reading
DRIVING one-and-a-half hours to his orchard is something that 70-year-old Book Ah Tak looks forward to each time he makes the journey. The retired senior bank officer starts his trip at 6am sharp from his Subang Jaya home to his orchard in Karak, Bentong. He normally reachesContinue Reading
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