News (Page 161)

The road to Thimmamma Marrimanu leads through one of the driest parts of India. I picked it up in a town called Kadiri and drove another hour through camelback mountains and peanut fields. Granite boulders covered the brown landscape like a crumble topping. Nature had been stingy with the flora—saving up,Continue Reading

A new project will be allowing banana growers in the tropics to stop shipping 95 percent of their production to Argentina.   Guzmán explained that the pilot test to export the product lasted from 9 December to 20 January. In that time, the fruit was kept in a cold chamber inContinue Reading

As Cyclone Debbie barrels across the north Queensland coast, Australia’s winter fruit supply is in danger of being wiped out.   The storm, which on Tuesday night was downgraded to category two, is expected to tear through large parts of the coast, from Ayr to St Lawrence, with possible wind speeds of upContinue Reading

New Zealand imports about 72,000 tonnes of bananas annually, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation.     Each New Zealander eats around 18kg of bananas a year – an estimated cost of about $88 per household, or more than $142 million a year.   New Zealand imports more bananasContinue Reading

Normally, the salak skin would be thrown in the trash. However, under the hands of a junior high school known as Sekolah Menengah Pertama (SMP) Muhammadiyah Programme Course or Program Khusus (PK), the skin can now be made into a refreshing drink. This processing was done by 30 students who came together underContinue Reading

Lampung Town- The Pondoh Salak comodities had initially thought to have originated from Yogyakarta identical from Yogyakarta, but had turned out not to be true. At Kabupaten Pesawaran salak were grown by Bumi Adnan and were able to produce pondoh salak which has unique characteristics.   Pondoh Salak producing districtContinue Reading

Bojonegoro (beritajatim.com) – Hundreds of people looked happy. Despite the long wait, their spirits were not dampened as they awaited the loads of salak that will be paraded.   The loads of approximately four meters high was made with a pile of hundreds of the fruits. This was the people’sContinue Reading

In the throes of a prolonged dry spell, the people of Karnataka may have something to cheer about with the early arrival of mangoes this year. Prolonged drought in the State has induced flowering in mango trees, resulting in the arrival of the fruit three months before season.   However,Continue Reading

Chocolate lovers could soon have a harder time satisfying their sweet tooth. Worldwide demand for this mouth-watering treat is outstripping the production of cocoa beans, its primary ingredient. But in a study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, scientists report that compounds found in jackfruit seeds produceContinue Reading